Developing student metacognition
Asking students to reflect on and talk about their ideas can be difficult. Matthew Kloosterman suggests that getting students into the right visible thinking routines makes all the difference.
Asking students to reflect on and talk about their ideas can be difficult. Matthew Kloosterman suggests that getting students into the right visible thinking routines makes all the difference.
Consililum Education library specialist, Sal Flint continues her new column – School Readers – in which she talks to educators about their favourite three books. This month’s Reader is Professor Deborah Eyre.
Consililum Education library specialist, Sal Flint starts a new column this month – School Readers – in which she talks to educators about three of their favourite books.
Katherine Beith Director of Studies at Alleyn’s Junior School considers the reading journey the school has recently experienced. According to Year 4, things are on the right track!
Tony Dickenson teacher, lifelong learner and writer reflects on gender and equity. How should we be encouraging boys to understand the obstacles that girls face every day?
Does ‘çomparative judgement’ provide a more reliable – and quicker way to mark written work? Daisy Christodoulou certainly thinks so.
Head of IB French at Sevenoaks School, Dr Fabienne Cheung, thinks it’s time to challenge traditional approaches to teaching listening skills in Modern Languages.
We now refer to the idea of curiosity almost routinely. But what is it? Holly Warren’s prose poem article provokes us to think more deeply.
Just when poetry was becoming really interesting both to teach and even more important to study, it has fallen victim to post-covid curricuum cuts. Jill Pritchard laments the move.
Julian McDougall places school libraries and an effective programme of media literacy in the front line to confront and counter ‘fake news’.