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- 5 strategies for reading complex texts – The Confident Teacher January 15, 2022
- Inspection has become tougher for primary schools – Education Datalab blog January 13, 2022
- How does A-Level subject choice vary around the country? – Education Datalab blog January 12, 2022
- Stimulating Physics Network (Phase 4 and 5) evaluation report – Education Datalab blog January 11, 2022
- How school absence varies from day to day – Education Datalab blog January 11, 2022
- The Problem with Reading Informational Texts – The Confident Teacher January 8, 2022
- Mike Treadaway – Education Datalab blog January 7, 2022
- Series and Parallel Circuits — an unhelpful dichotomy? January 2, 2022
- The shape of assessment – David Didau: The Learning Spy December 31, 2021
- How should we teach students to interpret texts? – David Didau: The Learning Spy December 12, 2021
- Increasing rates of sickness absence in primary schools – Education Datalab blog December 9, 2021
- Exploring persistent absence – Education Datalab blog December 9, 2021
- The SEND Review ought to find out why so many young people are in local authority commissioned alternative provision – Education Datalab blog December 3, 2021
- Sciences are from Mars; Humanities are from Venus November 29, 2021
- Arguing about English – The Confident Teacher November 27, 2021
- How many pupils from mainstream schools are educated off site each week? – Education Datalab blog November 24, 2021
- 5 reasons why students fail with revision – The Confident Teacher November 20, 2021
- Supporting Secondary School Literacy – The Confident Teacher November 13, 2021
- Which BTEC subjects have the best (and worst) gender balance? – Education Datalab blog November 10, 2021
- Absence in primary schools so far this year – Education Datalab blog November 9, 2021
- Phonics in MFL November 7, 2021
- How do mental health problems vary during secondary school? – Education Datalab blog November 5, 2021
- How many asymptomatic pupils with COVID-19 are attending schools? – Education Datalab blog November 3, 2021
- Specifying a concept-led KS3 English curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy October 23, 2021
- Did the first wave of the pandemic increase the socio-economic achievement gap? – Education Datalab blog October 22, 2021
- What does secondary school absence look like this year? – Education Datalab blog October 22, 2021
- Who’s Left 2021 – Education Datalab blog October 14, 2021
- How can we get more young people to achieve Level 3 qualifications? – Education Datalab blog October 12, 2021
- How free school meal eligibility has been changing and why we might need new measures of disadvantage – Education Datalab blog October 7, 2021
- Why aren’t students choosing to study English and the arts at A-Level?: Part two – Education Datalab blog October 5, 2021
- Why aren’t students choosing to study English and the arts at A-Level?: Part one – Education Datalab blog October 5, 2021
- Circuit Diagrams: Lost in Rotation…? October 3, 2021
- What impact will Ofqual’s chosen grading system in 2022 have? – Education Datalab blog September 30, 2021
- Flows of pupils into and out of state schools before and during the pandemic – Education Datalab blog September 29, 2021
- What might a minimum entry threshold for higher education look like? – Education Datalab blog September 28, 2021
- Signposting Fleming’s Left Hand and Right Hand Rules September 26, 2021
- Is curriculum all that? – David Didau: The Learning Spy September 24, 2021
- Key Stage 4 Attainment in 2021: The headlines – Education Datalab blog September 24, 2021
- Key Stage 4 Results 2021: Looking behind the averages – Education Datalab blog September 24, 2021
- Do Key Stage 2 tests negatively affect children’s wellbeing? – Education Datalab blog September 24, 2021
- The School Quality Index: An answer to the accountability question? – Education Datalab blog September 23, 2021
- Carts and Horses or For the hell of it. September 22, 2021
- How much Pupil Premium funding have schools missed out on? An update – Education Datalab blog September 22, 2021
- Which A-Level subjects have the best (and worst) gender balance? – Education Datalab blog September 17, 2021
- Could an admissions overhaul really close the attainment gap? – Education Datalab blog September 14, 2021
- Investigating alternative provision: Part two – Education Datalab blog September 13, 2021
- Investigating alternative provision: Part one – Education Datalab blog September 13, 2021
- Why using the curriculum as your progression model means you can’t ‘measure progress’ – David Didau: The Learning Spy September 11, 2021
- Why ‘using the curriculum as a progression model’ is harder than you think – David Didau: The Learning Spy September 8, 2021
- Has the Key Stage 4 disadvantage gap widened this year? – Education Datalab blog September 7, 2021
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Monthly Archives: May 2021
From the Earth to the Moon in 270 BC
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. Emily Dickinson How did human beings first work out the…
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Schools and the Tyranny of Merit – David Didau: The Learning Spy
One of the books I read last year that has most stayed with me is Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? In it, Sandel argues that meritocracy is inherently harmful… Continued here https://ift.tt/3uqdjMf
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Measuring the radius of the Earth in 240 BC
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. Emily Dickinson, ‘The Brain’ Most science teachers find that ‘Space’…
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The problem with ‘it makes the reader want to read on’ – David Didau: The Learning Spy
One of the most common and irritating of responses to be found strewn through students’ literary or linguistic analysis is that a writer will have a made of particular choice in order to ‘make the… Continued here https://ift.tt/2ShISdV
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Binding energy: the pool table analogy
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Nuclear binding energy and binding energy per nucleon are difficult concepts for A-level physics students to grasp. I have found the ‘pool table analogy’ that follows helpful for students to wrap their heads around…
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Attendance in primary schools before and after the last lockdown – Education Datalab blog
Disadvantaged pupils in primary schools appear to have missed 50% more sessions than other pupils during the Autumn Term Continued here: https://ift.tt/2RQ6Zjy
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Visualising How Transformers Work
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‘Transformers’ is one of the trickier topics to teach for GCSE Physics and GCSE Combined Science. I am not going to dive into the scientific principles underlying electromagnetic induction here (although you could read…
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Three Pillars of Vocabulary Teaching – The Confident Teacher
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that vocabulary knowledge is crucial for pupils’ school success. Pupils are language sponges, learning thousands of words each year. Like increases in a… Continued here: https://ift.tt/3vIvZYS
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Have disadvantaged pupils fallen further behind during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog
Read the headline findings from an ongoing study exploring the effects of COVID on the attainment gap Continued here: https://ift.tt/2RxMxE2
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Benchmarking GCSE results using historical data – Education Datalab blog
Some thoughts about benchmarking 2021 teacher assessed grades against historical GCSE results Continued here: https://ift.tt/3vCW1N4
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