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Nov 8, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Melissa Benn |Nicole Dempsey |Jennifer Hampton |John Lawson
Secondary Gareth Sturdy weighs up the government’s decision to try and enact a blanket ban on smartphones in schools… by “The distraction, the disruption, the bullying…”. That was the grave lamentation with which Education Secretary Gillian Keegan set the tone for her blanket phone ban in schools at the 2023 Conservative Party conference. She painted a picture of schools virtually overwhelmed by pupils clutching phones, struggling to cope with their wholly negative impact.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Peter Inson |Bhamika Bhudia |Adam Riches |Jennifer Hampton
SecondaryEnglish Want teens to read? Letting them know which books certain authorities don't want them to read might be a good place to start this October… by Teachwire DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! Animal Farm GCSE – Discuss a key chapter SecondaryEnglish What is Banned Books Week? Banned Books Week started in 1982 and is now an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the value of free and open access to information.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Peter Inson |Bhamika Bhudia |Adam Riches |Jennifer Hampton
SecondaryEnglish Meera Chudasama looks at how you can turn reading-averse students into avid bookworms desperate to see what the next page holds… “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”– Dr SeussHaving started the last academic year with a supported set, I saw for myself how some would drag their feet in English lessons while others had a distinct spring in their step.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Bhamika Bhudia |Adam Riches |Jennifer Hampton |Peter Inson
SecondaryEnglish The key to overcoming students’ reluctance to study English could be to show how it can be dismantled and reassembled like a mechanism… Some years ago I was asked to assist a young adult, Ben, who had fared poorly in his English studies at school. He boasted to me that he had been thrown out of every school in the local area, but now had responsibilities at work that required him to regularly read and to write reports.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Adam Riches |Jennifer Hampton |Matt MacGuire |Bhamika Bhudia
SecondaryEnglish Social media platforms aren’t going anywhere – so let’s at least use them to improve students’ ability to read, suggests Bhamika Bhudia… It’s widely understood that reading and literacy play a pivotal role in student outcomes, both academically and beyond. Reading for pleasure has even been shown to have a greater impact on student outcomes than their socio-economic status.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Jennifer Hampton |Matt MacGuire |Adam Riches
SecondaryEnglish Sometimes it’s best to put aside the reading interventions in favour of some subtle, yet powerful tweaks to your teaching, suggests Adam Riches… At secondary school, young people who find reading difficult are often branded ‘reluctant readers’ and as such, much of the support put in place for them doesn’t actually cut to the core of the issue. Reading is a complex craft that we can’t assume all learners will have mastered.
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May 26, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Jennifer Hampton |Colin Foster |Hannah Huston Day
Secondary Hannah Day looks at how schools can address the persistent absence that’s shaping up to be one of the pandemic’s most lasting impacts… DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! Bumper Lesson Plan Templates Pack PrimarySecondary Attendance across schools is down, to the point where it’s now become a major focus of government attention. Many students can remain stubbornly difficult to get into school, which the pandemic and its aftermath has only made worse.
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May 26, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Matt MacGuire |Jennifer Hampton
SecondaryEnglish Our students will need to be confident speakers in their professional lives, observes Jenny Hampton – so why don’t we teach oracy properly? Oracy is about talk. So why, as a secondary school English teacher, do I want to scream? Why does the Spoken Language Endorsement occur in a vacuum of education policy for talk? Student: ‘So it’s really important, but not part of our overall GCSE grade?’English teacher: ‘Yes.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | Colin Foster |George Baxter Andrews |Shirley Lawes |Jennifer Hampton
Secondary Ian Gilbert sets out some advice for schools on what to do following the death of a student’s parent or guardian DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! Bumper Lesson Plan Templates Pack PrimarySecondary In 2008 the mother to my three children died. Her illness had been long, stressful and chaotic but our story was not supposed to end this way. At the time, my youngest daughter was in primary school, my eldest daughter was at secondary school and my son was at an FE college.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
teachwire.net | George Baxter Andrews |Shirley Lawes |Jennifer Hampton |Daniel Harvey
Secondary Colleagues who take all aspects of teaching in their stride might not necessarily be the best people to learn from, warns Colin Foster… DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! Bumper Lesson Plan Templates Pack PrimarySecondary Let’s say there’s a teacher who’s struggling with their behaviour management and decides to seek help from a more experienced colleague.
