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Are we making effective use of technology in our classrooms?
Are we making effective use of the technology in our classrooms? Have our schools made it to the 21st century or are they stuck in the early 90s? From the very first moment that I started to work in a school, I was amazed by the IT suites and how... View Article
Category: Teaching Guidance
Assessing Writing… A Step in the Right Direction
Assessing writing in primary schools for year 2 and year 6– a step in the right direction… Part 1 So, we have the promised revised assessment frameworks for writing for Year 2 and Year 6. First of all, what are the changes? Year 2 Year 6 Without a doubt, this... View Article
Category: Assessment English
Analyse School Performance with ASP – the latest school data system.
Do you know your ASP from your elbow? An introduction to the RAISEOnline replacement… RAISEOnline is dead; long live the ASP! And its smaller sibling the Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) has usurped the Inspection Dashboard too. Actually I give it a year, or maybe two at the most, before it... View Article
Category: Inspection
Monitoring and Evaluation of Subject Leaders
Monitoring and Evaluation of subject leaders Monitoring subject leaders is crucial if you are to make judgments about the quality and success of a subject. It is one of the most difficult things to arrange, given the time constraints and fact that there are many subjects to monitor. Senior leaders... View Article
Category: Subject Leadership
Ten Top Tips for Being an Effective Subject Leader in a Primary School
There are a few different routes into subject leadership. You may be a subject leader because you have a passion for that subject, a wealth of experience in that curriculum area and your higher qualifications are in that subject. Or you may be the subject leader because you were the... View Article
Category: Subject Leadership
Are left-handed pupils being left behind?
Letting down left-handers in primary schools: Do you keep a check on the standards attained by left-handed pupils? As the data packs arrive at school, we will be asked to focus on different groups, such as boys/girls; disadvantaged/non disadvantaged; EAL/non EAL and SEN and non SEN. However, are we asked... View Article
Category: Mastery and Metacognition
Master Maths with Metacognition
A metacognitive route to better teaching in mathematics How can greater levels of thinking and reasoning improve our teaching of mathematics in primary schools? We are at a point in time when there are new ideas published every day, with claims about ‘best practice’ in the teaching of mathematics. In... View Article
Category: Mastery and Metacognition Maths
Physical Geography Learning Challenge Curriculum Plan
Free Focus Education Learning Challenge Curriculum Template Our free Learning Challenge ‘What makes the Earth angry?’ sample plan will help primary school teachers to provide their pupils with a fun and engaging primary curriculum. This sample plan is based on the Learning Challenge approach. You might want to amend the... View Article
Category: Curriculum
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