Teaching and learning

Sheena Newland, Languages Subject Advisor at Pearson, explores the difficulties involved in achieving gender neutrality in grammatically gendered languages and shares her advice and teaching resources on how to be inclusive of all genders in modern foreign language teaching.

Love it or hate it, the PEE approach to paragraph writing and paragraph structure has had a profound impact on the way that English is taught in secondary schools. Whether you are a PEE or PETER advocate or you are looking for inspiration, you'll find a range of classroom resources on paragraph writing to suit your style of teaching and your students' needs. 

As we know, the threat to our planet and to the human race posed by climate change is all too real. With the government's promise at COP26 to have a model science curriculum including sustainability and climate change in place by 2023, we all have a duty to help children understand what we mean by the term 'climate change', how we have caused it to happen, and, most importantly, how we can contribute to the solution. As Emmanuel Macron put it, 'Let us face it, there is no Planet B.'

Writer and English teacher Alison Powell shares her suggestions for classroom resources to inspire KS3-4 students with a range of creative writing experiments. 

Classroom layouts can have a huge impact on learning. We share the latest evidence-based research and experienced teachers' views on the most effective classroom layouts. 

The teaching of grammar has long been a hotly debated topic in MFL teaching. Theories have differed not just about how to teach it but even about whether to teach it explicitly at all ...