Twelve barriers that prevent young people from disclosing sexual abuse and four factors that help them have been identified by researchers. Image: Adobe Stock An NSPCC-commissioned study (Allnock & ...

Stretch and challenge in practice: Debbie Light offers some practical strategies to raise the bar in your classroom for all pupils Implementing a stretch and challenge model in your classroom requires ...

The latest workforce figures from the Department for Education (DfE, 2024a) show that the retention crisis is not abating. The most recent figures covering 2022/23 show that 39,971 teachers left state ...

Continuing his series on the potential of retrieval practice, spaced learning, successive relearning, and metacognitive approaches in the classroom, this time Kristian Still focuses on the ‘spaced’ ...

More than 114,000 teachers have quit the chalkface for reasons other than retirement in the last three years. Retention concern: One in 10 early career teachers quit after a year at the chalkface, 1 ...

This episode considers extra-curricular activities and what effective provision looks like across the secondary school, including common challenges, staffing, quality-control, and ensuring equitable ...

Classrooms that have clear and easy routines tend to see better behaviour from the students within. Jon Tait looks at how and why we can establish routines for behaviour and routines for learning ...

In August, education secretary Bridget Phillipson proposed that children in England should be taught to identify extremist content and misinformation online. This would be part of a broader effort to ...

Many early career teachers find themselves taking on a tutor group early on in their careers, but many feel unprepared. So, what is involved and what makes for an effective form tutor? Matt Bromley ...

The PISA research says that ‘adaptive instruction’ is one of the approaches most positively correlated with student performance. Matt Bromley looks at what adaptive teaching entails and how to deliver ...

In this five-article series, Helen Webb explains the metacognition-inspired teaching and learning model at Orchard Mead Academy and how it translates to classroom practice. In part four, she considers ...

Educational disadvantage is complex. Researcher and educator Sean Harris explores why tackling the impact of poverty in schools requires assessment – not assumption. He examines flaws in how we ...