Teaching and learning

Tom Barwood is an experienced geography teacher and author. Here are his suggestions for developing children’s awareness of the process of learning.

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.

Sue Howarth is an ASE Chartered Science teacher and a former teacher-trainer at the University of Worcester. Here she shares her suggestions for how to make the language of science more accessible to students.

Sue Howarth, an ASE Chartered Science teacher, teacher-trainer and science writer, explores the big ideas of science, and how they can help students to make sense of their learning.

Mark Burns, teacher and co-author of Engaging Learners and Teaching Backwards, offers suggestions for a practitioner's toolkit to maximise students' feelings of competency.

Children with a ‘word gap’ – a smaller vocabulary than others – are disadvantaged in ways which can affect their whole lives, and school closures have made the problem worse. Here are 18 flexible ideas to share with parents to try at home.