My next CPD session is applicable to literature and language, across all exam boards 🎯 I'm going to focus on improving student responses at a granular level, looking at each AO - lots of strategies to improve AO1-3 which can be immediately implemented. eventbrite.co.uk/e/913150135637…

Another plug for these as they took me ages and it’d be nice if other schools could benefit 👇👇👇

Scottish performance on international tests plummeted. In 2023, one of the architects of the curriculum admitted the reforms failed because they were based on a flawed understanding of the relationship between knowledge & skills. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/skills-vs-kn…

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NEW BLOG: From James Crane for those thinking about vocabulary in a secondary setting: researchschool.org.uk/durrington/new…

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Love this! What an amazing and generous share! "You need a lesson just on sentence one of writing a thesis. You need loads of mini-whiteboard practice. You need relentless reference to each part of the essay in the same vocabulary every time." Exactly this!

!!!COMPETITION!!! To celebrate our 5th birthday 🎂, like and retweet to be in for a chance of winning a year’s access to 8 hours of online GCSE English Language CPD worth £495 for FREE!!! 8 sessions on each lang q 2-5 and printable resources to use in the classroom Laura Webb

A mini booklet of tasks based around important moments in A Christmas Carol - two for each stave douglaswise.co.uk/blog/mini-book… ❄️

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A brilliant resource. Thank you!

This is such a great book. Lots of themes to help create a more diverse curriculum and loads of great vocab too!

Two core ideas underpin effective inclusive teaching: 1. Cognitive similarity 2. Instructional sensitivity Let’s dig into both… ↓

Just because pupils can’t decode, it doesn’t mean they can’t access demanding texts. ‘That will be too hard for my class!’ is often the response when I’m making the case for providing pupils in primary and secondary with interesting demanding texts. When we’re considering

🚨🚨NEW PAPER ON INCLUSIVE TEACHING ...that I've been working (pretty intensely) on for the last few months. Details below: ↓

Teaching CROSSING THE LINE next year? Check this brilliant #KS3 S.O.W. out! (Elon, I'm only here because I want to get this 17-week Scheme of Work into the hands of English teachers and school librarians over the hols.) Spread the word! 📢 tiafisher.com/crossing-the-l… Hot Key Books ✨📚

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AQA English Language examiner feedback summarised for you thehappyteacherhub.co.uk/resources-of-t…