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Teaching tips and tricks: avoiding ‘fast fashion’ professional development In an excellent blog post, Sarah Cottingham wrote about teaching ‘tips and tricks’ offered in professional development [...]

In 2021, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) released a review identifying the “characteristics of more effective professional development” (Sims et al., 2021). This led to three EFF [...]

For much of the ten years I spent as a classroom teacher, I thought that motivation came in only two flavours: extrinsic and intrinsic. I saw a binary distinction between them. Extrinsic [...]

Improving our use of assessment often means deepening our understanding of the curriculum. If you teach, you assess; assessment is part of teaching. But what do you assess? And how? And when? The [...]

Gavin Williamson, the UK’s Education Secretary, has announced that, in England, the summer 2021 GCSE and A-level exams have been cancelled and will be replaced by Teacher Assessed Grades. [...]