Useful Reading

SecEd

https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/ A excellent site with a wide range of useful articles related to current secondary education issues. 

Memory

  • Retrieval practice – some messages from the research HERE
  • ‘Memory is the residue of thought’ – in practice HERE
  • Beneficial side effects of retrieval practice HERE
  • 5 good bets for the year ahead HERE
  • 5 ways to support pupils with poor working memory HERE
  • Categorising knowledge to make it more sticky HERE
  • Cornell notes and the Ebbinghaus curve HERE
  •  TLAC: Retrieval practice in asynchronous instruction HERE
  • Connection cues HERE

Literacy

  • Improving writing through improving reading HERE
  • The importance of vocabulary in maths HERE
  • Key findings from EEF’s new guidance report on literacy in secondary schools HERE

Closing the Gap

  • What knowledge matters … being realistic about gaps and recovery HERE

Relationships

  • Front-loading behaviour instructions HERE

Growth Mindset

  • Metacognition v mindsets HERE
  • Helping students maintain habits HERE
  • Everyday modelling HERE

Curriculum

  • Some curriculum principles, and links to further reading HERE
  • Curriculum is still hard HERE
  • What leaders need to know about the curriculum HERE

SEND

  • How technology can help dyslexic learners help themselves HERE
  • Autism Awareness HERE
  • Social, Emotional and Mental Health HERE
  • ADHD and ADD HERE
  • Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties HERE
  • Learning Difficulties HERE
  • Dyslexia HERE
  • Speech and Language Difficulties HERE

Feedback

  • Whole class feedback, at a distance HERE
  • What happened when teachers stopped marking? HERE
  • Why we’re still getting feedback wrong HERE
  • Formative Forms – feedback through MS Forms HERE

Revision

  • Haydon School Tips for Year 11 Revision HERE

Work/Life

  • 5 Brilliant Productivity Hacks HERE