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Evidence suggests that opportunities for students to enjoy talk, reading and writing in the subject of English are increasingly delimited in maintained secondary schools in England. The pressures...
Helen Carr is a lecturer in Secondary History Education at the University of Birmingham with two decades of experience working in and with secondary schools. Her particular interests are in...
Donna Dawkins is an associate professor in Science Education with a specialism in biology teaching and learning at the University of Birmingham. She has extensive secondary science teaching and...
What is a discipline and why does it matter? Knowing about our disciplines is more and more important given the increasingly generic demands of teaching and assessment, the proliferating ‘lethal...
Continue reading blog postDr Helen Crompton is Executive Director of the Research Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning (RIDIL) at ODUGlobal and a professor of Instructional Technology at Old Dominion University...
In the current era of regulation and regimentation, English teachers’ sense of professionalism is constrained by their ‘policy’ identities (Ball, 2003). Their sense of subject exists within...
Continue reading blog postNeenaz Ichaporia is EdTech Lead at the British Council, currently based in Mumbai, India. She ensures quality standards and innovation in EdTech for English language teacher (ELT) development. She...
English A-level1 is in steady decline. In England, student numbers have dropped from 83,000 in 2013 to 54,000 in 2023. Research involving teachers suggests that the current GCSE specifications and...
Continue reading blog postDr Adam Edmett is Head of EdTech Innovation for the British Council and currently based in Doha, Qatar. Adam has 27 years’ experience in English language teaching and digital learning...
I am a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sunderland and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). I have been leading and teaching programmes in Education Studies for...
The spoken word wields immense power. Everyday conversation is the basis of human relationships: communication underpins collaboration, the engine that facilitated the success of our species...
Continue reading blog postThe pressure to ‘fail better’ weighs heavy in GCSE English resit classrooms, echoing Samuel Beckett’s famous words from Worstward Ho. However, this oft-repeated mantra, stripped of its...
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