Pedagogy

Developing high-quality teaching and learning strategies for this education recovery phase is a challenge. Here you will find ideas and suggestions by and for education professionals.

What are the key areas to focus on? How can I create positive learning environments to facilitate recovery? How do I manage challenging behaviour appropriately at this time? What should formative and summative assessment look like?

We will be posting articles and guidance: we welcome contributions from members.

What the NEU says about recovery education

Using picture books to promote LGBT+ inclusion

Mark Jennett discusses ideas for how primary schools can use a brilliant NEU resource, Every Child, Every Family, to promote LGBT+ inclusion

Teaching: It's personal and professional: part one

What has shaped you as a educator and why is teaching the job for you?

Teaching: It's personal and professional: part two

How do your lived experiences affect your classroom practice?

Teaching: It's personal and professional: part three

Good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher." Do you agree?

Increasing your ‘response-ability’: part three

How taking a step back can make your classroom leadership more effective

Recovering, every day: part five

Examples of activities that can be used in a wide range of contexts to encourage thinking and meta-cognition

Behaviour leadership part five: appropriate behaviour

Do we focus too much on ‘bad’ behaviour? Find out more

Developing pupils’ oracy skills

Practical techniques for improving your students’ communication

Supporting pupils’ emotional development: part two

Ways of using positive affirmations in pastoral care

Recovering, every day: part four

How to increase student engagement through challenge

Hours wasted in the quest to test

Schools could make far better use of time taken by external tests, says head Kulvarn Atwal

Book review: Restorative Practice by Mark Finnis

Steve Russell offers his views on one book to support educators to promote behaviour and relationships

Behaviour leadership part four: rules and routines

How building relationships helps communicate rules and routines

Recovering, every day: part three

More practical tips on maximising participation and closing gaps

Preparing for September: part two

Strategies for preparing to welcome your new class

Increasing your ‘response-ability’: part two

Striking the balance between control and care to motivate learners

Supporting reading and vocabulary development

Approaches teachers and support staff can use to improve learners’ vocabulary

Supporting pupils’ emotional development: part one

Advice to support your pastoral care of your pupils

Behaviour leadership part three: rights and responsibilities

How applying these principles can help build relationships

The weak wall of primary assessment

Two years without tests means data arguments fall flat, says head Mark Chatley

Preparing for September: part one

A practical process to get you off on the right foot with your new class

It wasn’t all bad: part one

Are there any positives for educators to take from the pandemic?

Recovering, every day: part two

Ideas for narrowing attainment gaps, after Covid-19

Increasing your ‘response-ability’: part one

Moving from ‘reacting’ to ‘responding’ in classroom leadership

How to use language during recovery

Julia Rowlandson explains the importance of accessible language when consolidating learning

Behaviour reset

Positive, practical ideas to get your classes back on track

Behaviour leadership part two: building relationships

For some learners, the value of a strong relationship with a trusted adult in a school can be life-changing

Behaviour leadership part one: moving beyond behaviour management

A practical model for dealing with current behaviour challenges

Teacher wellbeing part two: Self-care

You are worth taking care of, simply because you are you. Find out how

Teacher wellbeing part one: Filling your cup

The first in a series of articles to help you improve your wellbeing and your teaching

It’s time for a turn to outdoor learning

Outdoor education expert Sue Waite explores how nature can be brought into the whole curriculum

Recovering, every day: part one

What educators can do to help learners, right now

Outdoor learning in Early Years and primary

Dr Helen Bilton on how to give younger pupils more access to outdoor learning

Ending our relentless focus on SATs

Prof Alice Bradbury on why the new normal needs a new approach

Drop SATs and focus on recovery

Campaign group More Than A Score on the case against the return of Government primary tests

Supporting inclusive reading in primary and secondary

Resources and ideas for diversifying reading in schools with more writers of colour

Outdoor learning in secondary

Where 11-18 learning only happens inside we’re missing an opportunity, says Dr Helen Bilton

Techniques to combat exhaustion and promote wellbeing

The challenges faced by educators due to the pandemic have been immense. Sinéad McBrearty of Education Support has useful tips on self-care

Young people, anxiety and what parents tell us

Advice on what educators can do about anxiety when it becomes a barrier to attendance

Promoting health and wellbeing through physical activity

Free resources to help you support children to boost their health and wellbeing after Covid-19

Recovery education in the early years

The best traditions of early years education stand us in good stead to deal with the consequences of Covid-19

The return curriculum

Dave Peck gives suggested practical strategies for recovery and future education

Blog: Rethinking curriculum normal

As we reintegrate into the norms of school again, it’s vital we don’t lose the insights that rethinking curriculum and provision has brought, says Luke Rolls

Reimagining assessment methods

We’re the experts in our field, now is the time for us to be bold and shape the future, says Jon Berry

The importance of communication and community in schools right now

To truly support our pupils to thrive we must release our imagination and use it to effect change, says executive head James Biddulph

Tips for leaders: a team approach to mental health

The wellbeing of students and staff will be a key focus for leaders as more return to school. Read our five key suggestions

Blog: Let’s not make ‘catch-up’ the next policy mistake

Education recovery is crucial: we must ensure we get it right, says Ruth Lupton

Supporting student wellbeing as schools return

The Anna Freud Centre has four key actions for schools and resources available to support

Ten top tech tips for tele-teaching

There are lots of tech solutions to remote teaching problems, but where to start? Jake Mansell provides his top ten

Planning for behaviour as schools reopen more widely

Tips on providing behaviour leadership to learners returning to school

Rethinking learning during lockdown

Prof Gemma Moss thinks it’s time for a new perspective on the purpose of education

Being your best during remote education and the re-entry

Dr Aminul Hoque brings together recommendations from teachers on how to keep learners motivated and engaged

A new deal for children and schools after Covid-19

Dave Peck argues now is the time to take a break from the past and plan a stronger education system fit for the future

Advice on remote education

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