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A beginner’s guide to Professor Robin Alexander

Beginners' guides

Robin Alexander gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge, beginning his career as a teacher before becoming a lecturer at the University of Leeds. He is currently a fellow of Wolfson Colle...

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Teachers, stop using collective punishment – it makes you look weak and lazy

Tales from the frontline

I have given up on collective punishment. Don't get me wrong, I have been that teacher. It was many years ago, but I can still feel the sheer desperation and the feeling of vindictive hatred towards t...

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Maths: finding the fix to our problems

Research Matters

We are not good at Maths in this country. In the latest PISA results (2012), England ranked 24th in the maths tables. This equates to a three year achievement lag between the performance of our ...

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Classroom Fad or Fix? We investigate homework

Expert Insights

Classroom fad or fiction

What is it? It depends who you speak to. For some, homework is a way to develop students' independent learning skills and ensure they have understood – and then consolidate – work from the clas...

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Six practical classroom techniques to help your students build resilience

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By Natalie Costa We all know that resilience is important, for our students and ourselves. We know that the way to help young people develop it is to make them feel comfortable with their mistak...

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