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Back in January, I shared a blog on Improving GCSE Performance Post-Mocks  (link here ). Yesterday, I came across a LinkedIn post from...

Mock exams are a key moment for Year 11 students, giving us a clear picture of how they are doing and where they need to improve . For...

Using the spreadsheet shared by Ben Merritt on Secondary MFL Matters, I've completed a comparison for Edexcel. Tab 1 (Picture 1):  This...

In our department, we are committed to ensuring that our approach to marking and feedback for Modern Foreign Languages is both effective...

In this post, I would like to concentrate on the one element of our job which most of the colleagues (myself including) that I have...

With recent publications of various edu-books, mini whiteboards seem to be experiencing some kind of ‘re-birth’ in the world of...

One of the six pedagogical principles of expert teaching is modelling, a research-informed strategy demonstrating to our students how to...

Following my previous post on Thinking about assessment where I have mentioned using multiple-choice quizzes (MCQ) for formative...

‘Assessment is, indeed, the bridge between teaching and learning.’ Dylan William The importance of assessment is obvious, it is a process...

What is effective questioning in the classroom? Effective questions are defined as questions focusing on eliciting the process in...

Recently, I have read ‘The Feedback Pendulum’ by Michael Chiles which analyses different types of feedback and its research based...