International Schools Blog

Alongside innovation in onscreen assessment and digital accessibility, we ensure we assess students in the right way, through our existing qualification design. At Pearson, this means offering a choice over when learners are assessed and examining how modular assessment can work alongside linear assessment as an examination option.

What should education reform for a new generation look like? Meredith Reeve, Head of Next Generation Assessment at Pearson, shares our best current thinking and provides an overview of the progress we are making at Pearson to innovate learning and assessment to give choice to students.

As teachers, we know that effective planning leads to successful outcomes. Planning the learning journey of our students is an important part of the teaching and learning process, but sometimes the task before us seems overwhelming. 

Here are five strategies that you can use with your International GCSE students to help you become a more effective teacher.

Learn how you can prepare your students for exam season, with revision tips and techniques to help them cope with exam stress.

Learn about the benefits of the British education system and see if it's the right choice for your child.

Preparing students for progression to university requires more than just a strong grounding in academic understanding, students also need to be equipped with the right developmental skills such as the ability to learn independent, critical thinking, communication and creativity.

The National Curriculum for Computing in England might be nearly ten years old but the subject matter is constantly changing with new computing terms and programming languages, so it’s important that teachers are kept up-to-date with changes and what these might look like in the classroom. With specialist Computing teachers not found within most schools, especially at a primary level, teaching Computing can often be feared by teachers.

Part of the post-pandemic educational debate focused on summer holidays. Some politicians suggested reducing the summer break to help learner catch up on lost learning, but other educational experts argued that both learners and teachers need a long summer break to recharge their batteries.

One of the major challenges for teachers and school leaders is how to meet the challenge of the Computing curriculum, especially at Primary and Lower Secondary and provide a rounded, thought provoking and engaging curriculum for students to help prepare them for the world ahead and inspire more to take computing-based courses at Key Stage 4 and beyond.