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What can we and what should we be doing to ensure that we give our students every opportunity to hold on to what they have learned? Naphtali Hoff (@impactfulcoach) suggests how planning in lessons needs to incorporate metacognitive strategies to engage the memory. Read more here.
Reosemary Dewan talks about the need for values literacy, which empowers children in their character development and promotes them to take more responsibility for their learning and behaviour. Read more here.
Rusul Alrubail outlines why digital storytelling can be a useful growth tool for students, and how you can go about it. Read more here
A head teacher in the South of England shares what he's learned from watching his daughter enter the teaching profession, and from working alongside her. Read more here.
At Eleanor Smith School in London, a holistic approach known as Academic Resilience to help ensure all students needs are met. Read more here.
Providing meaningful student feedback is a critical component of learning. Many digital platforms provide perfect centers for student feedback. Mark Barnes suggests platforms for doing this here.
Too many good teachers are forced to leave the classroom just because they want new challenges or feel a need to influence system and organisational change. Teacher leadership is a necessary structural change to school systems to ensure our 'best' teachers stay connected to the classroom. Read the debate here.
Debate about school standards is obsessed with the wrong things. We need to teach our children how to learn and give them more opportunity to learn from each other. Findings of intensive analysis of data from across the world, part-funded by the Department for Education as part of the What Works Network line up metacognition, feedback and peers as powerful things for schools to focus on. Read further here.
