Teaching and learning

James Murphy and Dianne Murphy are internationally renowned experts in reading intervention. They share their suggestions for 12 effective approaches to reading intervention for primary and secondary schools as part of the recovery curriculum. 

Mary Myatt is an educational author and an expert on curriculum development. Here she shares her suggestions for focusing on the quality of the curriculum and making time to do this by reducing marking and data gathering.  
 

Katherine Muncaster is passionate about growth mindsets and metacognition. She is the co-author of 'Growth Mindset Lessons: Every Child a Learner'. Here she shares her ideas on developing a growth mindset with primary children.

Ease the transition from primary to secondary, and welcome new students with a selection of icebreakers, getting to know you and relationship-building activities to help year 7s settle quickly and confidently at secondary school.   

Learning all your students' names can be challenging, particularly at the beginning of a new school year during transition, but it's essential for positive classroom management and strong relationships. We share our favourite, tried and trusted strategies to help you.

Sheena Newland, Languages Subject Advisor at Pearson, explores the difficulties involved in achieving gender neutrality in grammatically gendered languages and shares her advice and teaching resources on how to be inclusive of all genders in modern foreign language teaching.