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?
Behaviour leadership part five: appropriate behaviour
Do we focus too much on ‘bad’ behaviour? Find out more
Recovering, every day: part five
Examples of activities that can be used in a wide range of contexts to encourage thinking and meta-cognition
Increasing your ‘response-ability’: part three
How taking a step back can make your classroom leadership more effective
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
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
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?
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 leadership part one: moving beyond behaviour management
A practical model for dealing with current behaviour challenges
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
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
Teacher wellbeing part two: Self-care
You are worth taking care of, simply because you are you. Find out how
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
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
Drop SATs and focus on recovery
Campaign group More Than A Score on the case against the return of Government primary tests
Young people, anxiety and what parents tell us
Advice on what educators can do about anxiety when it becomes a barrier to attendance
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
Promoting health and wellbeing through physical activity
Free resources to help you support children to boost their health and wellbeing after Covid-19
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
The return curriculum
Dave Peck gives suggested practical strategies for recovery and future education
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
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
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
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
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
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