Policy and Practice
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Behaviour Management – 3 Chances
One of the biggest causes of stress for teachers is the problem of adolescent behaviour management (Education Endowment Foundation, 2019). The stress can be escalated when you use every behaviour management strategy that is thrown your way only to find it unsuccessful. The key to good behaviour management is a robust policy that all teachers …
Improving Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students
It is clear from national data and the NFER 2015 Paper that there is a massive disparity for KS4 outcomes across UK schools. We also find from research, and common sense that there are several clear factors found in schools where pupils tended to be above the average progress line. I have always been clear …
Mobile Phones in Lessons
I will start with the positive reasons why we should use them, which is a rather long list (not exhaustive) and finish with the few problems and mitigations. I think we all need to think long and hard about this, as I personally think everyone can make this work, but it needs careful thought. Also …
Rosenshine Principals
Expanded Ideas…. I found a really good list of expansions online for the 10 key ideas. Which may help you understand what is meant by each one if you are an NQT. I think they are very well written. 1 Begin the lesson with a review of previous learning. Rosenshine suggests investing 5-8 minutes to …
