Secondary

Thursday

3rd Jul 2025

How a ‘community of practice’ can transform teacher CPD
This approach can help teachers to strengthen links to their wider subject communities, boosting professional development in the process, says psychology teacher Lyndsey Hayes
Illustration of figures thinking and sharing ideas

Tuesday

24th Jun 2025

How ‘digital nutrition’ can help keep students safe online
Rather than debating mobile phone bans, schools should be encouraging young people to develop healthy habits in their digital consumption, writes Margaret Mulholland
Digital drawing of an apple

Monday

23rd Jun 2025

How practitioner enquiry can empower a school’s workforce
Positioning teachers as researchers trying to solve teaching and learning problems in their own classrooms can be a great model for CPD, write three initial teacher trainers
Teacher CPD: How practitioner enquiry empowers teachers

Saturday

14th Jun 2025

How Benjamin Bloom inspired my use of AI
Rather than approaching generative AI as one-way communication, teachers should use it to create a feedback loop, suggests Jack Dougall
How Benjamin Bloom inspired my use of AI

Friday

6th Jun 2025

How to counteract maths anxiety in GCSE students
Tackling anxiety around maths exams starts with systematically building confidence and revision skills from key stage 3 onwards, writes head of maths Stephen Britton
maths anxiety in GCSE students

Monday

19th May 2025

How science experiments can boost your GCSE revision
Practical work can help students to grasp abstract scientific concepts and generate enthusiasm in revision sessions, writes chemistry teacher Jon Blackbourn
Science experiment GCSE revision

Saturday

17th May 2025

Why schools should be worried about exam TikTok
When Amy Forrester discovered her GCSE students were turning to unreliable online videos for help with their revision, she set out to understand more
Reading tea leaves GCSE predictions

Thursday

8th May 2025

How English literature can counteract the ‘manosphere’
Few boys are opting to take English at A level, missing out on developing important empathy and communication skills, writes Andrew Copeman
Hand holding skull English Literature

Wednesday

30th Apr 2025

The teen reading crisis - and the plan to start fixing it
Too many teenagers don’t have the reading skills to access the curriculum, but Professor Jessie Ricketts is on a mission to change that
No entry sign

Tuesday

29th Apr 2025

How do we stop students switching off from physics?
Too many students are becoming disengaged from physics because they can’t see the real-life relevance of what they are learning, writes subject lead Kate Jakubiak
Wind turbine with off switch

Sunday

27th Apr 2025

How well do you understand the dangers of nicotine pouches?
With a ban on single-use vapes coming into force, pouches are a new source of nicotine favoured by young people – so what do teachers need to know about the risks they pose?
Nicotine pouche with question mark

Wednesday

23rd Apr 2025

Why subjects need their own take on the ‘cogsci revolution’
While the use of cognitive science research can aid teaching, it needs to be filtered and combined with the unique demands of individual subjects, argue Mike Hobbiss and Paul Cline
Why subjects need their own take on the ‘cog-sci’ revolution