Challenging able children
Although able children are often grouped, they may have very different needs. Read how these children all needed to be challenged differently.
Tom Hesmondhalgh
Tom Hesmondhalgh has led training and research projects across the mainstream and further education sectors, with a focus on practitioner-led approaches to developing skills. Tom has been a governor in settings across education, including a secondary, a primary and an infant school, and most recently a further education college.
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Making the transition from secondary to primary teaching
Top tips on preparing for a transition from secondary to primary education. We explain the skills needed to have a real chance of succeeding.
Keeping it real. Make geography relevant to your pupils
In its last two reports into the teaching of geography, Ofsted stated that a high proportion of students, particularly in KS3, don’t think that geography
Using gamification to promote boys’ enjoyment of English
When travelling the length and breadth of the UK to deliver courses for Creative Education I always introduce the concept of gamification as a means
Using Distancing Techniques in PSHE
Teaching some of the topics in the PSHE curriculum can be tricky, even awkward and, not to put too fine a point on it, just
Mathematics in (or out of) context?
Despite years of research and numerous studies about transferability of skills the teaching and learning of mathematics continues to be a problem. Students are still
Six steps to sustainable student motivation
Motivating students for one lesson is a challenge – keeping them continually motivated is an even bigger one, but if we invest the time, effort
Delegation: 7 ways outstanding school leaders get it right
Delegation sounds like a simple thing… Ask other people to do things. But it’s clearly not as simple as it sounds or we’d all be
Four practical underpinnings of academic resilience
The ability to try, fail then try again is an important one for our students to master but can be difficult to instil, with many
Encouraging Students to Study Dance in Schools
We all know the benefits that the creative arts provide in developing young people in a myriad of ways, but when it comes to options
