Friday
4 ways to improve your differentiation
Addressing diversity in the classroom needn’t involve a huge amount of extra planning, says Helen Drury, who shares four principles for good practice
Teachers call on Scottish government to outlaw ‘fire and rehire’
Strike action is looming at a Glasgow private school over changes to teacher pensions – and other schools could ‘impose similar detrimental changes’ without government intervention, a union warns
MAT governors frustrated by not overseeing heads
The role of local governance in multi-academy trusts is explored in a new report by the National Governance Association – here are its key findings
MAT leaders ‘in the dark’ over DfE growth decisions
MAT chief executives are sounding the alarm over how academies are being rebrokered and trusts penalised for taking on challenging schools
Why copy-and-paste behaviour policies ignore school reality
Sufian Sadiq explains why trying to impose identikit behaviour management policies ignores school context and risks alienating children and communities. Instead, more nuanced and long-term views must be taken
NASUWT Scotland: behaviour policies leave teachers ‘vulnerable to allegations’
Impact on teachers may be ‘devastating and often career ending, even if they are eventually found to have done nothing wrong’, says union
Thursday
MAT CEOs in frame for Ofsted chief inspector role
Three high-profile multi-academy-trust chief executives are understood to be in the running to replace Amanda Spielman
Why we must build on the ECF’s early success
A leading provider of the Early Career Framework says Ofsted’s latest review validates the recent reforms to support new teachers, and that we now have a ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ to invest in teachers’ skills and expertise
Weekly round-up: Sats trouble and GCSE guidance
This week’s education news round-up includes reports of pupils crying over the difficulty of this week’s Sats reading paper, Ofqual guidance on mock GCSE exams and an investigation into the drop in the number of teachers over 50
Inclusion failure ‘risks a return to an institutional model’
Next month it will be three years since Angela Morgan published her support-for-learning review. She talks about how Scottish education still needs a ‘radical redesign’
What teachers gain when they become learners themselves
When chemistry teacher Duncan Short took up the drums last year, he gained a deeper understanding of what his students face when they go through assessment
