There has been a backlash at the Department for Education’s attempt to put a positive spin on the latest school workforce figures – ignoring the fact that a record 40,000 teachers quit last year.

The latest workforce figures from the Department for Education (DfE, 2024a) show that the retention crisis is not abating. The most recent figures covering 2022/23 show that 39,971 teachers left state ...

Triumph or disaster, students often fixate only on their mock exam marks. Paul Jenkins looks at four common reasons students lose marks in exams and considers how teachers can use the data they have ...

Recent years have seen a focus on inclusion. The pastoral systems and structures in schools support inclusion and the socialisation and personal development of learners. Effective pastoral care ...

This episode looks at the opportunities and risks presented by artificial intelligence (AI) in schools, offering advice and suggestions for whole-school AI policy and strategy as well as for teaching, ...

Adaptive teaching: Students benefit from encouragement to persevere, specific feedback about small next steps, and in-the-moment responsive adaptations - Adobe Stock ...

Continuing his series on the potential of retrieval practice, spaced learning, successive relearning, and metacognitive approaches in the classroom, Kristian Still turns to the importance of feedback, ...

Great teaching is, of course, central to better pupil engagement. Drawing in your pupils by using a range of teaching techniques and tricks will ensure that they remain connected with their learning.

Nurturing a sense of belonging at school can have a considerable impact on social and academic outcomes. Martha Evans explores nine factors that influence student belonging ...

Good questioning is at the heart of great teaching. In this five-part series, Matt Bromley looks at creating a questioning classroom. In part one, he considers 13 questioning techniques, as well as ...

PANS stands for paediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, while PANDAS stands for paediatric auto-immune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections. PANS and PANDAS are ...

Poverty is on the radar of many schools, charities, and policy-makers. However, between the political rhetoric and most people’s limited lived experience of hardship, poverty can often be ...