Teaching and learning

As schools adjust to the realities of post-lockdown learning, could vocabulary development help to close the attainment gap?

Every year, a third of children fail to achieve a standard pass in GCSE Maths and English. In The forgotten third, leading educationalists, teachers and politicians argue that this injustice is built into our school and exam system - and make a compelling case for change.

Rebecca Nobes shares her ideas about the benefits of becoming a Chartered Teacher.

Emma Granton and Simon Briggs, Lead English Experts for AQA, share their ideas about how to enrich students' cultural capital in preparation for teaching literature texts at GCSE.

If you’re lacking inspiration for your next grammar lesson, you’ll love this selection of creative teaching ideas from Vanessa Salter, MFL teacher, consultant and trainer. Her resource brings together 20 fun and inventive teaching ideas to put the pzazz back into grammar!

Getting students to 'own' the value of Shakespeare as part of their cultural capital is not necessarily straightforward. Francis Gilbert, journalist and PGCE and MA course leader, suggests how you can familiarise your students with Shakespeare's language.