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The Future of Girls’ Education: Classroom, Curriculum and Culture
The Future of Girls’ Education: Classroom, Curriculum and Culture
Read May Lee's blog from February 2025 below, along with the GDST document Designing the Future of Girls’ Education, a GDST Insights Report and Framework, following on from the landmark 2022 ‘Girls’ Futures Report’ which highlighted the aspirations of girls and the barriers they face. This report and framework provides thought-provoking and practical tools designed to inform and empower families, teachers and the entire educational community to understand how girls learn best and to challenge the structures and mindsets in schools that short-change female pupils.
MLE blog Feb 25 The Future of Girls’ Education_ Classroom, Curriculum and Culture.pdfDesigning the Future of Girls' Education, a GDST Insights Report 2025 - Final.pdfHigher Order Thinking Skills in action Feb 24.pdfHOTS in action
HOTS in action
A great overview of Higher Order Thinking Skills, including Marzano's HOTS and practical ways to implement thinking skills in school.
How Higher-Order Questioning Drives Critical Thinking.pdfHigher order questioning
Higher order questioning
A fascinating blog from Structural Learning with lots of ideas for developing critical thinking skills
Why focusing on grades is a barrier to learning_.pdfAssesments and grading
Assesments and grading
At the High School we have a philosophy of 'learning without limits' which leads to our policy of avoiding a narrow focus on grades and levels. The emphasis is on continual improvement via feedback and dialogue as this helps avoid the anxiety and fixed mindset that grades and levels can engender. Dr May Lee goes into more detail about why we take this approach in her June 2024 blog.
Visible learning Hattie 250 influences.pdfHattie's top two!
Hattie's top two!
Read this blog from Leading and Learning for an insight into what Prof John Hattie says are the two biggest influences on student achievement: collective teacher efficacy and teacher estimates of achievement.
The PDF is the full list of the most (and least!) effective influences on student achievement.
Here’s what we know about generative AI’s impact on white-collar work.pdfAI - impact on white-collar workers
AI - impact on white-collar workers
Read this article from the FT - a summary of two studies on the impact of generative AI on white-collar jobs.
First, regulation will be key. Online freelancing is about as unregulated a labour market as you will find. Without protections, even knowledge workers are in trouble.
Second, the more multi-faceted the role, the less risk of complete automation. The gig-worker model of performing one task for multiple clients — copywriting or logo design, for example — is especially exposed.
And third, getting the most out of these tools, while avoiding their pitfalls, requires treating them as an extension of ourselves, checking their outputs as we would our own. They are not separate, infallible assistants to whom we can defer or hand over responsibility.
Blog - AI in education Friend or Foe.pdfAI in education: Friend or Foe?
AI in education: Friend or Foe?
This blog is from Debbie Hill and accompanied the Tea-search session in October 2023
This page is dedicated to interesting T&L blogs I have found - please let me know if you have one you would like to share!
3 tips for Hattie's student self-reported grades
3 tips for Hattie's student self-reported grades
William D Parkers blog looks at some practical tips to make the most of the biggest effect size boost in Hattie's Visible Learning list!
Mrs Humanities blog is great for all things T&L as well as the Humanities subjects. Have a look a this blog for some great ideas on feedback and push forward that don't involve increasing your workload! Look at the stop marking books presentation in the ideas section too.
Low stakes - high impact
Low stakes - high impact
This blog from Mr Jones's Whiteboard gives some great advice about how low stakes testing can yield better outcomes and reduce stress for pupils.
In another approach to avoiding stress for students, T&L Coach "Mrs. Truckman" (@mrs_truckman) recommends that students create an action plan for the week to help them prepare for testing and reduce stress--a digital testing plan:
Beyond the mini whiteboard!
Beyond the mini whiteboard!
This article is from blogger activatingteaching and looks at a variety of ways to check for understanding (CFU)
Mini whiteboards for checking understanding
Mini whiteboards for checking understanding
In this blog Jack Tavassoly-Marsh explores how we can use mini-whiteboards to check understanding
The Education Endowment Fund (EEF) Toolkit has recently been updated to take account of its latest research. In terms of impact metacognition and self regulation is ranked as the STAND-OUT performer.
Retrieval practice
Retrieval practice
Retrieval practice may well be our best bet for helping students learn and retain information. As well as playing a key role within the classroom, retrieval practice is arguably one of the most effective ways to revise. Find out more in this blog from Innerdrive.
Successive relearning
Successive relearning
In her taking learning seriously vlog, Katherine Rawson cites meta-analysis showing that successive relearning is efficient and powerful for independent studying. It involves the following: After initial learning, try and recall information from memory with restudy as needed until the information is firmly internalized. Example: the way you use flashcards--putting those you don't know at the back of the deck until you have each one memorized successful. Do this on more than 1 day. Rawson says that students won't use the technique or use it properly unless the strategy is talked about explicitly at the beginning of a course
TeacherHead here tackles what might be the biggest challenge facing teachers on a day to day basis - well worth a read!
Getting metacognition into remote learning Feb 2021.pdfGetting metacognition into remote learning
Getting metacognition into remote learning
Sophie MacNeill's blog looks at the important issue of metacognition and how to encourage independent learning skills in remote learning
This blog is all about how we forget things we learn with something called the Ebbinghaus curve of forgetfulness! However, there is a workaround or “hack” that allows us to beat this called Cornell note taking (invented by a Cornell professor in the 70's). Why not try it out on a class?
Don't say don't!.pdfDr Rodrigo Bamman gives an interesting insight into how pupils process negative language.
This is a great blog site with lots of 'brain blasts' on a range of topics to help with teaching and learning (and generally being a great teacher!) There's a free weekly email service too if you want to sign up.
Our habits are like an automatic pilot that helps us do everything without too much thinking, says Jackie Beere.
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