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- Closing the Writing Gap – New Resources – The Confident Teacher May 22, 2022
- Year 11 attendance during the build-up to exams – Education Datalab blog May 20, 2022
- The size of multi-academy trusts – Education Datalab blog May 18, 2022
- Introducing… Closing the Writing Gap – The Confident Teacher May 17, 2022
- Does taking A-Level maths improve your grades in physics and computer science? – Education Datalab blog May 13, 2022
- Repeat suspensions and exclusions during compulsory schooling – Education Datalab blog May 11, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Purposeful Professional Development – The Confident Teacher May 7, 2022
- Kirchhoff — and die happy May 2, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Influencing Teachers – The Confident Teacher April 30, 2022
- Is there is a link between Year 11 pupils’ wellbeing and their GCSE grades? – Education Datalab blog April 28, 2022
- Is A level maths a requirement for A level physics and computer science? – Education Datalab blog April 26, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Perennial Problems – The Confident Teacher April 24, 2022
- The Importance of Early Literacy – Education Datalab blog April 15, 2022
- Five things we’ve learned this term about pupil absence – Education Datalab blog April 8, 2022
- 6 Micro-moves for Academic Talk – The Confident Teacher April 2, 2022
- Do disadvantaged students choose different subjects from their peers at Key Stage 5? – Education Datalab blog April 1, 2022
- Why has DfE chosen such an unusual measure as its GCSE target in the new White Paper? – Education Datalab blog March 28, 2022
- Simple Questions to Support Change – The Confident Teacher March 20, 2022
- 30 Years of Ofsted – Education Datalab blog March 16, 2022
- Units, you nit! March 13, 2022
- The case against Power Point as means of implementing curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 13, 2022
- The FFT Regional Attendance Tracker – Education Datalab blog March 11, 2022
- Does it matter if you don’t get a C (or 4) grade in GCSE mathematics? – Education Datalab blog March 10, 2022
- Assessing English at KS3 – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 5, 2022
- Come work with me… – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 4, 2022
- How can the government’s target of 90% of pupils achieving the expected standards at Key Stage 2 be achieved? – Education Datalab blog March 1, 2022
- Why ‘disrupting education’ doesn’t work – The Confident Teacher February 19, 2022
- Who should read aloud in class? – The Confident Teacher February 12, 2022
- How did the attainment gap change during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- Do disadvantaged children receive enough financial education in school? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- Are there socio-economic differences in how parents interact with their children about money? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- What’s the point of more elite sixth forms? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- The financial skills of children. What can rich kids do that poor kids can’t? – Education Datalab blog February 10, 2022
- How unequal are children’s financial literacy skills? – Education Datalab blog February 10, 2022
- Marking is murder! – The Confident Teacher February 5, 2022
- Will the Government’s latest attendance initiative work? – Education Datalab blog February 4, 2022
- How many schools might be affected by new proposals to move underperforming schools into strong MATs? – Education Datalab blog February 3, 2022
- Using tenor, vehicle and ground to analyse metaphors – David Didau: The Learning Spy February 2, 2022
- The problem with marking and how to solve it – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 31, 2022
- Understanded of the pupils January 29, 2022
- 10 things to know about teaching and learning – The Confident Teacher January 29, 2022
- Who are the children who have “fallen off the radar”? – Education Datalab blog January 28, 2022
- Commonly Confused Academic Vocabulary – The Confident Teacher January 22, 2022
- How much in-person teaching have Year 11 missed? – Education Datalab blog January 21, 2022
- Measures of persistent absence for the COVID age – Education Datalab blog January 18, 2022
- Why aren’t there more students in school sixth forms? – Education Datalab blog January 17, 2022
- 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
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Monthly Archives: January 2022
The problem with marking and how to solve it – David Didau: The Learning Spy
Every teacher – particularly English teachers – has huge existential guilt about marking. When I worked full time as a teacher marking was the first thing to go when the stress inevitably piled up…. Continued here https://ift.tt/GFw7BHe34
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Understanded of the pupils
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It is a thing plainly repugnant . . . to Minister the Sacraments in a Tongue not understanded of the People. Gilbert, Bishop of Sarum. An exposition of the Thirty-nine articles of the Church…
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10 things to know about teaching and learning – The Confident Teacher
There is lots to know about the brilliantly complex act of teaching and learning. Here is my list of 10 things to know in the plainest terms possible: 1. Pupils knowing stuff … The post 10 things… Continued here: https://bit.ly/3GbfCsw
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Who are the children who have “fallen off the radar”? – Education Datalab blog
Some thoughts on plans by the Children’s Commissioner to find children who have “fallen off the radar.” Continued here: https://ift.tt/3o8TXuO
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Commonly Confused Academic Vocabulary – The Confident Teacher
It is vital for our pupils to possess a wealth of academic vocabulary if they are to succeed in school. For most of my teaching career, this issue was tacit and flew … The post Commonly Confused… Continued here: https://ift.tt/3FLRCfj
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How much in-person teaching have Year 11 missed? – Education Datalab blog
With the first external exams since 2019 due to take place this year, we summarise the scale and variation of disruption experienced by Year 11s since the start of the pandemic Continued here: https://ift.tt/3qOKMSg
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Measures of persistent absence for the COVID age – Education Datalab blog
We try to calculate some new measures of persistent absence that try to account for the effects of COVID on school attendance data Continued here: https://ift.tt/3tyDGD6
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Why aren’t there more students in school sixth forms? – Education Datalab blog
Although CAGs in 2020 lead to students being awarded higher GCSE grades in 2020 , there was only a small increase in numbers staying on in school sixth forms Continued here: https://ift.tt/3roA7Nd
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5 strategies for reading complex texts – The Confident Teacher
“Perhaps one of the mistakes in the past efforts to improve reading achievement has been the removal of struggle. As a profession, we may have made reading tasks too easy. We do … The post 5… Continued here: https://ift.tt/3IaV3hw
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Inspection has become tougher for primary schools – Education Datalab blog
A summary of Ofsted judgments from the Autumn term 2021 compared to the same period in 2019. Continued here: https://ift.tt/33x9DR3
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