What can we learn about mastery from South Asia?
Mastery is a word we are hearing a lot at the moment, and it’s often linked exclusively with mathematics teaching practices from high performing jurisdictions, like Shanghai.
Mastery is a word we are hearing a lot at the moment, and it’s often linked exclusively with mathematics teaching practices from high performing jurisdictions, like Shanghai.
#LearningFirst Bath Spa ‘Show & Tell’ 22nd September 2016 was an opportunity for teachers from a variety of settings to come together, to share good practice and their school’s experience of their journey to a life beyond levels.
In this guest blog post Vicki Shotbolt, CEO of Parent Zone, writes about the new guidance on digital safeguarding that has come into effect this term, and explores what schools should be doing to ensure children are kept safe online.
If you are feeling confused about how you should be teaching for mastery in your school then you are not alone! Many schools are experimenting. And whilst this is exciting, it can be equally daunting … ‘same day intervention’, ‘variation theory’, ‘CPA’, ‘bar modelling’, ‘conceptual fluency’, ‘two part lessons’ … the list goes on.
Hot off the press! Our webinar series is continuing into the Autumn term with two free webinars on 13 and 14 September on 'Moving forward from SATs in Reading: Getting children comprehending deeply'.
If you haven’t yet heard of Bug Club, it’s our whole school reading programme that is designed to develop confident young readers and inspire a lifelong love of books.
It's been a busy week for Primary schools as both the SATs results and the new KS2 floor standards have been released.
There seems to be a lot of interest around reading comprehension at the moment -hardly surprising given that KS2 children have recently sat one of the most controversial reading SATs papers since SATs were introduced in 1991.
What’s the difference between formative and summative assessment? According to Kat Schofield, you can relate the 2 neatly to Steven Covey’s ‘circle of influence’ and ‘circle of concern’.