Author: Fergal Moane

I saw this technique being used very effectively in Mark Allday’s Year 10 Computer Science lessons recently. The students have to undertake an extended piece of Non Examined Assessment (controlled assessment in old money)...

Give students a couple of minutes at the end of a lesson to prepare a one word response to questions about the lesson. In group work, questions such as “Who generated the most effective ideas today?” will allow you to visually...

Using student work as exemplars is a powerful technique – gives a motivational boost to those students whose work is displayed and a clear target for other students to aim for. The evidence also shows that peer learning is...

Meta-cognition, learners “knowledge of their knowledge”, is a promising area for research at the moment. The EEF report ‘Metacognition and self-regulated learning’ from April 2018 is a must read for all...