Learning Foreign Languages in Primary Schools
Reading Time: 2 minutes How can teachers improve ‘foreign language teaching’ in primary schools?
Tag: Ofsted
Podcast 71: What Is Concept-Based Curriculum Teaching?
Reading Time: < 1 minute What can Western education learn from the East, and vice versa?
Post Brexit: What Next For Education in England?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Post-Brexit, will English education improve in general terms, as well as in international standards?
The Unintended Consequences of Labelling ‘Stuck Schools’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why do some schools continue to under-perform?
5 Teaching Ideas to Bin in 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes What teaching ideas would you like to say goodbye to in 2020?
Primary Attainment in English Primary Schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes What are the attainment trends across English primary schools?
School Enrolment Is Predicted To Decline
Reading Time: 2 minutes What are the demographic patterns of falling primary school enrolment?
Book Review: A Manifesto for Excellence In Schools
Reading Time: 2 minutes What can Rob Carpenter’s ‘Manifesto for Excellence’ help improve your school?
Podcast 61: The Links Between Poverty And Attainment
Reading Time: < 1 minute How do primary schools close the poverty and attainment gap, and what happens at secondary school that unpicks all this hard work?
Inspecting The Curriculum: Deep Dive Unreliability
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can Ofsted inspectors look through pupils’ books with any degree of reliability?
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes: Who Watches Ofsted?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Quis custodiet ipsos custodes is Latin for ‘Who watches the watchmen?’
Ofsted Policy: 11 Rhetorical Questions
Reading Time: < 1 minute What rhetorical questions would you ask about education?