Schools across the world are fast implementing mobile phone restrictions, from outright bans to curbing usage to certain areas or times of the day, all in an effort to encourage students to be more sociable or to prevent cyber bullying or to ensure that lessons can proceed without the unwanted disruptions that mobile phones can…
Read MoreA national crisis with GCSE resits?
What is causing the dire rates of success of GCSE resit? Since 2015, students who do not attain the UK government basic standard of Level 4 in maths and English have to resit these subjects. But stats show that there’s an alarming 79% and 83% failure rate (English and Maths respectively). Jilly Duffy, Head of…
Read MoreEating the PIE – pt2
This post is the second in the series of dealing with the Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of interventions. The first can be found here. I’ll be solely concerned with the Implementation phase in this article. Getting started can be the hardest thing. For example, when starting this blog I agonised over trivial matters and procrastinated…
Read MoreEating the PIE (Planning Implementation and Evaluation of intervention strategies)
Leading assessment body GL Education states that “the success of young people’s educational experience is heavily determined by the attitudes they bring to their learning”. As educators, we know this to be a universal truth. Levels of confidence, motivation and perceived learning capabilities play a huge role in students’ success and their overall experience of…
Read More10 Intervention Strategies
Below are 10 pastoral intervention strategies which can be used to support struggling learners to get back on track and make progress in their education. Don’t forget to subscribe to my blog by clicking the button below.
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