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How to Plan a Think Aloud
Showing students how to think, step-by-step
Research School Network: Blog Posts
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Blogs
Latest blogs from our Research Schools
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Tackling Transitions
A Yorkshire and the Humber Blog Series
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Manipulatives for All Ages
Building a Consistent Approach at Front Lawn Primary School
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Empowering Every Teacher
Crafting a Pupil Premium Strategy for All Staff
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Mastering Maths
Unlocking Learning Through Variation
Tackling Transitions
A Yorkshire and Humber Blog Series
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Why should I think about literacy? I’m a Science teacher!
Niki Kaiser, Chemistry teacher, Assistant Headteacher & Research School Director makes the case for literacy in Science
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Yorkshire & Humber ‘Tackling Transitions’ blog series.
Read all the blogs from this series below.
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Professional development in maths – why I always start with the‘why’
Exploring professional development for maths teachers
REVISITING RETRIEVAL PRACTICE (PUN INTENDED)!
By Vanessa Sullivan
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Tackling Transitions
A Yorkshire and Humber blog series.
Nurturing Growth: planting seeds that enable the most vulnerable pupils to thrive
Insights from Partner Provision, an alternative education provider for young people with health, SEMH and medical needs
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The EEF Guide to the Early Years Pupil Premium
EEF launches a brand new resource to support early years settings to make the most of their Early Years Pupil Premium funding.
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Leadership: Shaping the Future of the Teaching Workforce
By Norfolk Research School
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Making the transition from Reception to Year 1: Continuing Continuous Provision
Katherine Milner, Mathematics Evidence Lead and Yorkshire Ridings Maths Hub specialist looks at continuous provision
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A recap of recommendation 5 from the ‘Improving Mathematics in Key Stages 2 and 3’ guidance report.
Develop pupils’ independence and motivation.
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A recap of recommendation 1 from the ‘Improving Mathematics in Key Stages 2 and 3’ guidance report.
Recommendation 1: Use assessment to build upon existing knowledge and understanding.
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A Place in Special School – The Final Hurdle?
Tackling the transition from mainstream to special school.
Metacognition and structured talk
Chris Runeckles explores how we can support students to articulate metacognitive thinking and purposefully direct their learning
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Academic Transition to Post-16
How Dixons Sixth Form Academy helps students adapt to academic challenges.
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Listen, Chat and Play Together – How to approach high quality interactions with children in the early years.
By Nicola Owen, ELE and Head of School at Spixworth Infant School
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Vocabulary at the transition
Supporting the academic transition to secondary school through vocabulary
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Why sometimes the best goal is no goal …
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Professional development in maths – why I always start with the ‘why’
Joy in the Classroom: Difficulty and Failure
A new series of blogs focuses on the role of ‘joy’ in the classroom
Professional Development in Maths: Making Every Teacher An Expert
Stephanie Watson, Maths Lead at Billesley Primary School, shows how effective PD makes for enhanced teaching and learning
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EEF launches 11 new research projects
Projects have been selected based on their potential impact on the attainment of socio-economically disadvantaged pupils.
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Using exam wrappers to encourage Year 11 students to reflect on the effectiveness of their revision
How exam wrappers can be a valuable source of student feedback and reflection
Refining Whole-class Feedback
Research School Associate and science teacher Jody Chan explores changes she has made to post-assessment/homework feedback
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Partnering with Parents: A Simple and Effective Approach to Supporting Reading at Home
Empowering families to support their children’s communication and reading development at home.
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Reading like a historian
Dom Bell considers the fundamental difference in how pupils read history compared with other disciplines.
Bringing reading to life: The power of readers theatre
In this blog, Stella Jones, Director of Town End Research School introduces their Spotlight on Readers Theatre guide.
Talking, or Teaching Talking?
Making the MOST of high quality talk in Maths
Crunching Numbers, Expanding Talk
Three strategies to promote high quality talk in Maths
Creating the Conditions for Change in the Maths Classroom
A Structure to Support Implementation
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Opening the Hinges
We explore ways to ask more open hinge-point questions
Network-wide blogs
These blogs have been written on behalf of the wider Research Schools Network rather than an individual Research School
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Effective Professional Development and Motivating Teachers
Julie Kettlewell, the EEF’s new Learning Behaviours content specialist, on how to motivate behaviour change with effective PD.
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A balanced approach to successful professional development
Kirstin Mulholland, the EEF’s new maths content specialist, explains the mechanisms from the EEF’s latest guidance report.
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Introducing and using the Teaching and Learning Toolkit
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Identifying ‘best bets’ from educational research
Secondary school SENCo Kirsten Mould explains how to make best use of the EEF’s recently updated Teaching and Learning Toolkit
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Moving Forward with Technology in the Classroom
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Effective assessment and feedback strategies using educational technology
Shuna Neave of George Spencer Academy explains how her school has approached using technology to deliver feedback effectively.
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Diagnostic assessment in primary literacy
The EEF’s Caroline Bilton explains how to make effective use of diagnostic assessment in primary literacy teaching.
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Diagnostic assessment in maths
Secondary maths teacher and EEF specialist Simon Cox explains how diagnostic assessment can be utilised effectively in maths.
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Key Pillars of Assessment
What does effective assessment practice really look like?
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Supporting your child with learning remotely
Secondary chemistry teacher and EEF science specialist, Dr Niki Kaiser, on the challenges of supporting learning in lockdown.
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Supporting Self-regulation
Julian Grenier, director at East London Research School, on the impact of Covid-19 on young pupils’ self-regulation skills.
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