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Curriculum Primary Research 

Is It Time To Hop Off The Reading Carousel?

10th December 20189th December 2018 Nick Burton 817 Views 4 Comments Additional Support Needs, challenge, Differentiation, group learning, live marking, misconceptions, Reading, reading carousel, Research, rotation, school budgets, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why do we still use reading carousels?

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Interview Leadership Policies 

Toxic Headteacher: When A Bully Plays With Your Career

11th November 201811th November 2018 A Teacher 1740 Views 11 Comments Capability, challenge, manipulative, Ofsted, opposition, Performance Management, Policies, politics, Power, references, Settlement Agreement, teaching unions, toxic schools, Union, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes What happens when the education system lets you down?

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Assessment Middle Leadership Podcasts 

Podcast 31: Is A Results-Based Education System A Good Idea?

4th November 201812th November 2018 Joshua McGovern 890 Views 0 Comments #TTkit100Women, #TTkitPodcast, Alice Ferguson, Assessment, boys, challenge, Exams, experiment, girls, Head of Science, leadership, Middle Leadership, motivation, piggot school, Podcast, science, Teaching and Learning, women, WomenEd

Reading Time: 1 minute Is a results-based education system a good idea?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning Workload 

4 Steps To Ditching Differentiation

15th October 201815th October 2018 David Lowbridge-Ellis 7013 Views 11 Comments challenge, Differentiation, myth, Ofsted, planning, scaffolding, Sean Harford, stretch, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 4 minutes How can we change the differentiation narrative?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning 

Fermi Questioning

28th April 201823rd April 2018 @TeacherToolkit 2471 Views 2 Comments #30ClassroomIdeas, challenge, Creative Thinking, deliberate practice, Enrico Fermi, motivation, Nobel Peace Prize, Open Ended Questions, Pose Pause Pounce Bounce, Questioning, Questions, Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 1 minute How can a teacher improve their questioning technique and increase impact?

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Psychology Staff Well Being Teaching and Learning 

The Power Of Perhaps To Improve Decision-Making

4th April 20187th April 2018 James Manwaring 1569 Views 0 Comments awareness, challenge, experiment, investigate, mistake-making, opportunities, perhaps, status quo, teaching strategies, trial and error

Reading Time: 3 minutes How could we all embrace the power of ‘Perhaps’ and become better at decision-making?

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Leadership Middle Leadership 

Tips For Being A Successful Head of Department

13th February 201814th February 2018 Lucy Kilgariff 4461 Views 0 Comments ambition, challenge, Feedback, GCSE, Head of Department, leadership, Maths, middle leader, teamwork, time-management, Work-life balance

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can a new head of department make a difference?

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CPD 

#1MinCPD: Differentiation For Mastery

8th November 201715th November 2017 Hanna Beech 6167 Views 0 Comments #1minCPD, ability, ask the expert, challenge, CPD, Differentiation, Education, high achieving pupils, Interview, Mastery, School, teaching

Reading Time: 1 minute How can your most able learners help other students?

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Leadership Middle Leadership 

7 Tips For Implementing Change

4th October 20174th October 2017 John Dabell 8717 Views 0 Comments challenge, Change, communicate, compromise, consensus, consent, coordination, Education, leadership, School, subject leader, teaching

Reading Time: 4 minutes How do we bring about change?

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Students Teaching and Learning 

8 Ways To Challenge Gender Stereotypes In Your Classroom

6th September 201719th March 2018 Hollie Anderton 5757 Views 4 Comments Behaviour, boy, challenge, drama, gender stereotyping, girl, seating plan, sex

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can we challenge gender stereotypes?

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Behaviour Psychology 

10 Confidence Building Strategies

11th July 201711th July 2017 John Dabell 4468 Views 1 Comment Andy Cope, challenge, Chris Henley, confidence, Gary Toward, Mistakes, Stress, the 7Ps, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 4 minutes How confident are you?

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Teaching and Learning 

5 Reasons To Carry Out A Project This Term

26th June 201722nd June 2017 Beth Hartwell 6584 Views 1 Comment challenge, cross-curriculum, Dragon's Den, Project Based Learning, stretch, thinking skills

Reading Time: 2 minutes How do you use projects within the classroom?

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Behaviour Curriculum Teaching and Learning 

Differentiation: Education For All Abilities

5th March 20175th March 2017 Jodie Jasmin 11008 Views 11 Comments abilities, additional needs, Behaviour, challenge, Differentiation, potential, Relationships, support

Reading Time: 3 minutes With ever increasing class sizes and aspirational target grades, how do you meet the needs of each learner so that they

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Curriculum Policies Primary Workload 

Home Sweet Home

1st March 20172nd October 2017 John Dabell 3145 Views 0 Comments challenge, children, Dame Reena Keeble, effect, Effective Primary Teaching Practice Report, families, Homework, Impact, Michael Rosen, Parents, Professor John Hattie, purpose, Rob Plevin, status, Stress, Take Control of the Noisy Class, The Guardian, The Teaching Schools Council, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 4 minutes Should primary schools ditch homework?

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NQTs Staff Well Being 

Teacher Self-Doubt: Curse or Gift?

15th February 201712th February 2017 Hollie Anderton 5051 Views 1 Comment challenge, Education, negativity, pity, self-doubt, Stress, teaching

Reading Time: 3 minutes Is it wrong to doubt yourself?

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Teaching and Learning 

Rumour Mill

10th February 20178th February 2017 John Dabell 2350 Views 0 Comments challenge, conflict, evidence, friction, gossip, misconceptions, rumours, thinking

Reading Time: 3 minutes Should we encourage rumours in school?

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Teaching and Learning 

Invisible Sun

5th February 20175th February 2017 John Dabell 12248 Views 2 Comments challenge, Invisible Sun, Learning Objectives, Marcella McCarthy, The Spider Strategy

Reading Time: 3 minutes Should we share learning objectives with pupils?

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