Simple Assessment Strategies You Can Use Every Day
A super-helpful list of simple assessment strategies and tips to help you in your teaching, planning, and curriculum design, compiled by Saga Briggs. Find them here: Simple Assessment Strategies You … Continue reading
How a Teacher Eliminated Tests For One Year | Edutopia
Removing summative assessments from instructional practice can make class more interesting, engaging, and stress-free for students. I figured that after a year of quarantining and hybrid learning, it might be … Continue reading
Testing 3, 2, 1: Michael Lawrence Calls Out Standardised Education Practice
Like myself, my colleague Michael Lawrence is very taken with the Finnish education system and the reflection and professional thought that has gone into its creation. The welfare and development … Continue reading
Fun Academy | Where Learning Is Fun and Teachers Teach
Fun Academy is the best start in life for every child. Everywhere. They create solutions based on the Fun Learning approach that combines the best practices and latest advances in … Continue reading
What Fact-Checkers Know About Media Literacy – and Students Should Too | Edutopia
Professional fact-checkers use a strategy that’s at odds with how we usually teach information literacy. Here’s how to pass it on to your students. A fundamental problem, says Sam Wineburg, … Continue reading
Planning a Better Future with Fabienne Vailes
Another week, another great conversation with an educator passionate about change in education and learning. Fabienne Vailes has experience of education in most of its phases and can see clearly … Continue reading
Huge Emotions and the Adolescent Brain | Edutopia
Teachers can use clips from the movie Turning Red to explore with students the ways adolescence changes the brain. Read more here: Huge Emotions and the Adolescent Brain | Edutopia
If you do one thing to end this school year successfully, watch this seminar.
It has been a long and difficult academic year bringing disruption and challenges which have, between them, thwarted the scope and pace of school development planning. End the year on … Continue reading
Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work? | Edutopia
Specialized fonts for students with dyslexia are gaining in popularity. But they’re based on a key misconception, experts warn. Find out more here: Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work? | Edutopia
‘My spelling isn’t that great’: Michael Morpurgo on why teaching kids to love writing is more important than grammar | The Guardian
The author, poet and playwright on why we should move away from Michael Gove-mandated lessons on fronted adverbials and back to unleashing the creative potential of children. Read the article … Continue reading
The World Needs More Purple Schools by Kristen Bell and Benjamin Hart | YouTube
How do you make a purple school? It will take curiousity, sharing, hard work, and lots of laughs! Buy the book here:
3 Key Areas for Educators to Reflect on This Summer | Edutopia
As the year ends, high school teachers and administrators can assess their schools’ traditions, celebrations, and student leadership practices. As we considered which traditions to bring back from before the … Continue reading
Critical Mass: Forces for Change in Education Worldwide
I have been much heartened over the previous months by conversations I have had with educators worldwide who are rejecting the premise of current educational models. Increasingly they are putting … Continue reading
The Emotional Needs of Learners
If school is to be an effective place of learning it must cater for many dimensions of need in its pupils. The need for emotional and physical security is paramount. … Continue reading
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