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This year ITM will be following the debate about assessment and we start by interviewing Dr Steffen Sommer who presents his manifesto for ‘Assessment 3.0’.
Also in this month’s ITM, Richard Crawshaw looks at the growing problem of school refusal, Nick Chaddock takes us on a Gold ‘DofE’ expedition to Japan and Professor Helen Bilton looks at movement for learning in the early years.
Alexandra Dragomirescu, Laura Spargo and Holly B.F. Warren write about new approaches to lesson planning and scaffolding, while Sneha Chakravarty and Anveshna Srivastava are worried about ‘outsourced thinking’ and the issue of student ‘cognitive debt’.
Sally Flint finds out what Richard Human is reading in the latest of her School Readers series and with the 2026 recruitment season already under way, Pierre de Mirman looks at the importance of medical insurance for recruitment and retention.
EDITORIAL, SEPTEMBER 2025
ASSESSMENT IN 2025 The chances are that if you are reading this at the start of the new school year, you will
ASSESSMENT 3.0
FESTINA LENTE! The key to achieving necessary educational change lies in the way we assess students, according to Dr Steffen Sommer. “Education
REBEL!
RETHINKING LESSON PLANS Alexandra Dragomirescu has been discovering her inner rebel as she develops a new approach to lesson planning The way
COGNITIVE DEBT
A THREAT TO LEARNING? Sneha Chakravarty and Anveshna Srivastava are worried about the way learners are ‘outsourcing’ their thinking, so building up
3 EAL SCAFFOLDING STRATEGIES
CROSS-CURRICULAR IDEAS FOR EAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT Laura Spargo suggests some practical strategies for teachers to help EAL students thrive in the international
SCHOOL REFUSAL
THE KIDS WHO CAN’T FACE SCHOOL An increasing number of students around the world are finding it harder to attend school. Richard
SCHOOL READERS
RICHARD HUMAN, HEAD OF AI AT GLOBEDUCATE Consilium Education library specialist, Sal Flint continues her column School Readers, in which she talks to
TEACHING PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
LEARNING TO MOVE, MOVING TO LEARN Professor Helen Bilton places movement at the centre of so much that is important for learning
READ, DISCUSS, CREATE
ARBOREAL ATELIER PROJECT Responses to an inspirational book can take many forms – in this case Holly B.F. Warren had art in
GOLD IN JAPAN
LIFETIME EXPEDITION MEMORIES Nick Chaddock reflects on the intense impact on participants of a recent ‘DofE’ gold award trip to North East
SCHOOL HEALTH INSURANCE
STRIKING A BALANCE As international schools prepare for the 2026 recruitment season, just how important is good health insurance to staff? Pierre
JULY AND AUGUST 2025
WHERE ARE WE GOING WITH AI? In a special end-of-year edition, ITM takes time out to look at how teaching, learning and
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FEATURE IMAGE: Kuala Lumpur by Polina Kuzovkova on Unsplash
