SecEd
Latest Edition: March 6, 2014
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Child poverty plan: We really must do better
The government's child poverty plan is nothing more than a list of existing policies and aspirational statements. SecEd editor P…
Teaching styles – what does Ofsted want to see?
Ofsted has gone on the attack in a bid to get the message out to schools about its position on teaching styles. Gerald Haigh gives us an essential update on this recent spate of activity.
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The links between personality traits and risky behaviours
A new study has looked at the links between teenagers’ personality traits and risky behaviours like drink and drugs. Professor I…
6th Mar 2014
Behaviour management: Creating the right climate for learning
Charged with transforming student behaviour across his school, senior leader Jay Halai discusses the policies that proved effect…
Future Leaders,6th Mar 2014
Views on how to ensure your school's CPD programme is effective
A recent roundtable saw headteachers debating how schools can ensure their approaches to CPD are effective. Keith Wright and Dav…
Teacher Development Trust,6th Mar 2014
The Education Show 2014
The Education Show returns to Birmingham later this month when teachers can access a range of free CPD, keynote speakers and mor…
6th Mar 2014
Teaching resources and ideas for tackling the slave trade
The film 12 Years a Slave has thrust the horrors of slavery back into the headlines. Isobel Durrant looks at a range of projects…
6th Mar 2014
Key questions for external CPD
When commissioning external trainers, consultants or CPD providers, what key principles should schools follow to ensure success?…
Teacher Development Trust,6th Mar 2014
Seeking a NEET solution
A new research project is investigating what interventions are effective when trying to prevent young people from becoming NEETs…
27th Feb 2014
Using ICT in your PE lessons
Many PE teachers are ahead of the game when using technology effectively in their lessons. Ben Solly considers a few examples.
Ben Solly,27th Feb 2014
Tea, toast and collaboration
Is collaboration and joint reflection part of your staff’s daily routine? The Baverstock Academy has embraced the idea of in-sch…
27th Feb 2014
Research Insights: Evidence-based best practice from SecEd & NFER
From improving staff engagement and student happiness, to preventing NEETs or running a Pupil Premium Summer School, the SecEd-N…
27th Feb 2014
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Laptops vs pencils – how do your students revise?
With the exam season fast approaching many students will be using laptops for note-taking and revision. But a new study by two U…
Emma Lee-Potter,6th Mar 2014
Schools to receive new guidance on careers
Nick Clegg wants to introduce a “UCAS-style” one-stop-shop to help school-leavers who do not want to go to university to find wo…
Dorothy Lepkowska,6th Mar 2014
Welsh education experience wows Chinese
China’s education system may be getting results that are the envy of the world but a group of Chinese teenagers travelled 5,000 …
Moira Sharkey,6th Mar 2014
Concern as teachers' working hours top 55 a week with headteachers clocking up more than 63
A Department for Education workload study has revealed the huge hours that teachers and heads work every week, many of them in t…
Pete Henshaw,6th Mar 2014
DfE agrees to weekly union meetings, but NUT strike is still on
Teachers’ leaders gave a mixed response after long sought-after talks took place between education unions and the Department for…
Dorothy Lepkowska,6th Mar 2014
OCR re-grade highlights need for reliable appeals, heads say
The news that OCR has re-graded hundreds of examination papers has highlighted the need to have a “rapid, reliable, efficient an…
SecEd Reporter,6th Mar 2014
Teachers welcome advice on spotting and tackling FGM
A fear of stereotyping particular communities and a lack of universal understanding that the practice constitutes child abuse ar…
Pete Henshaw,6th Mar 2014
Call to halt ‘headlong rush’ to close schools
The Northern Ireland Executive should stall its “headlong rush” to close and merge schools, teachers say.
Simon Doyle,6th Mar 2014
Breakfast clubs vital for pupils and parents
More than one in four working parents say they would have to quit their current job if it weren’t for school breakfast clubs.
SecEd Reporter,6th Mar 2014
Charities step in to fund RE teacher training after DfE rejects bursary plea
Four charities have joined forces to establish a fund to support trainee religious education teachers who want to work in second…