Do you need help ‘sprucing up’ your classroom displays?
This week’s picks includes our popular outstanding classroom displays resource and a spotlight on marking – and ideas for how to do it more efficiently. Our top 5 blogs include an intervention resource and behaviour management tips.
Top 5 blogs
- 7 Deadly School Sins – What if schools could work more effectively?
- Ability Groups Are Damaging, Ineffective and Chaotic – Are ability groups a form of segregation?
- #1MinCPD: Breaking Down Behaviour – How can we manage challenging behaviour?
- Entry and Exit Criteria For Interventions – How do you track and demonstrate the impact of your interventions?
- 9 Teaching Ideas to Bin in 2018 – What teaching ideas would you like to say goodbye to in 2018?
Resource of the week
Are you thinking about ‘sprucing up’ your classroom displays for next year? With workload through the roof and with little time left available, most teachers will need some inspiration. Coming up with new ideas to make the walls of your classroom meaningful and manageable is a constant push-pull decision. So, allow us to do the ‘inspiration’ bit for you. And don’t forget, research suggests too much clutter has a detrimental impact on learning – so less really is more!
This resource is packed full of ideas to make your classroom walls not only look good, but make your displays a focal point of learning in the classroom! Download our Outstanding Displays resource!
CPD Spotlight: Marking
Marking. The bane every teachers’ to do list. Here are 5 posts to help reduce your marking workload and increase impact.
- 5 Tips to Eradicate Marking Misery
- Live Marking: Feedback in Lessons
- Marking Marketplace
- Meaningful, Manageable, Motivating Marking
- 10 Marking and Feedback Strategies
From elsewhere
- Research from the University of Michigan shows that children who are curious have higher academic achievement than those who aren’t. They see promoting the joy of discovery and motivating pupils to find out answers to life’s questions as an untapped strategy for early academic success.
- According to the Institution of Engineering and Technology, parents’ lack of confidence is putting their children off studying STEM subjects.
- Where you go to university and what you study really counts: Undergraduate degrees: relative labour market returns
- A poll by Parentkind has found that fewer parents say schools are acting on their feedback, and the majority believe schools should be more accountable.
- Research by the London School of Economics and the University of Bristol claims that pupils in secondary schools with a more diverse racial mix are much more positive about people of different ethnicities.
