Teaching and learning

Teacher, presenter and author Sue Cowley gives expert advice on how to manage your workload, whether you are new to teaching or a seasoned pro!

Sometimes trying something new, whether it's a revision game or even a gimmick, will help to kick-start the revision process for students who are struggling to get down to it. Here are 20 creative and fun ideas to try in class or at home.

David Didau – trainer, consultant, writer and former English teacher – questions the received wisdom that all marking is good marking and suggests how to make your feedback to students worthwhile. He explores the underlying reasons why marking is essential to progress and suggests ideas for how you can provide clarity, and increase students’ effort and aspirations.

James Crossland, Senior Lecturer in International History at Liverpool John Moores University, offers a much needed historical perspective on the contemporary problem of fake news, and explores its strategic use in Churchill’s wartime government.

Will Bailey-Watson, a PGCE History Subject Lead, argues that there needs to be a clear purpose to history homework and provides a helpful summary for training and newly qualified history teachers.

Teacher, presenter and author Sue Cowley outlines the benefits of metacognition and encouraging curiosity and philosophical approaches to thinking and questioning in your classroom.