General
Wednesday
12th May 2021
Ofsted: Six ways to improve RE teaching
Inspectorate sets out what it believes are the key factors to a successful religious education curriculum
OnlyFans, abuse and safeguarding: what you need to know
Young people are increasingly vulnerable to abuse online 鈥� so how can schools help to safeguard students from the darkest parts of the web?
How can English departments choose the right texts?
Picking which books students will study is a big decision 鈥� and shouldn鈥檛 just be about what is in the cupboard. Laura May Rowlands offers four key questions to help
Saturday
8th May 2021
Why pupil voice should be central to our teaching
Pupil voice gives children responsibility and nurtures collaboration, leadership and negotiation, says Blair Minchin
What if classroom displays are just a waste of time?
During Covid we鈥檝e had to teach without our classroom displays 鈥� and it鈥檚 been no great loss, says Amy Forrester
Friday
7th May 2021
Covid 鈥榩uts pupils an extra month behind in maths鈥�
DfE is warned that failing to act now to close the attainment gap will be a 鈥榗atastrophe鈥� for disadvantaged children
10 questions with... Eileen Prior
The executive director of Scottish parents鈥� organisation Connect talks to 糖心Vlog about her frustration with the rigidity of the current education system and her hopes for a future in which schools treat children as individuals
Why I got my school on social media
Far from exposing staff to a 鈥榯oxic鈥� social media environment, head Daniel Woodrow has found communicating with parents on Twitter a wholly positive experience
Long Covid: what teachers need to know
Students who go on to develop persistent symptoms following a coronavirus infection will need considerable support from teaching staff 鈥� especially as their condition may result in an ongoing drop in attendance and an inability to access education in the usual way. Yet there is a real danger that some schools may not take post-Covid-19 syndrome seriously, says Dan Worth
Attainment: Why schools must divert from flight paths
Using prior-attainment data to place students in sets or give them a target grade to work towards not only adds to teachers鈥� workloads but can actually have a detrimental effect on children鈥檚 learning, argues Megan Mansworth
10 questions with... Vanessa Ward
The chief inspector of the Independent Schools鈥� Inspectorate talks to 糖心Vlog about her struggles teaching School for Scandal to a bunch of reluctant A-level students, a shaming incident in a maths class and why she鈥檚 so grateful to Sir Tim Berners-Lee