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Assessment Conference 2018 take place next week!
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
"The 2018 event features rare appearances from the world™s most sought-after speakers who will tackle the controversial reality that more testing may actually be what our students need. As well as confronting this hot topic, they will give you realistic and practical solutions to ensure your school can successfully assess students without putting them off school or learning for life."

Click here for more information on this conference, to view a timetable for the day and to browse thorough the guest speakers.

Click here to book your place!
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Tuesday treat!
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
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'The Working Class' edited by Ian Gilbert is coming soon! So why not pre-order your very own copy here.
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'Making Every English Lesson Count is reviewed in The School Librarian journal
Monday, 12 March 2018
œThis volume which brings together six principles to support ˜great™, presumably effective, reading and writing, is part of a series all of which highlight the same six principles - challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, questioning and feedback - in other areas of education: Primary teaching, Maths teaching and Science teaching.These principles, it is claimed, are the basis of effective teaching.Its audience is English teachers, both those new to the profession and experienced practitioners. It brings together modern research in the area of quality teaching and learning and marries this with very basic and time-honoured wisdom. There is, too, a useful and extensive Bibliography.

Successive chapters explore and develop these principles. Each chapter closes with a number of self-assessment questions which the teacher should seek to answer. Throughout the book practical examples and typical classroom situations are adduced to illustrate how the principles can be implemented. Interspersed with the scholarship are thoughts and ideas which hopefully will be inspirational particularly to young teachers, ˜A child should be challenged just outside his comfort zone.™ The importance of the teacher showing his/her love of subject - this can be so motivating. What might also have been advocated is the sharing of methods and materials among colleagues within a department: to observe at close quarters what works and what does not work is invaluable. A wide-ranging compendium of facts, ideas and practical guidance, this will be a useful resource in English bases/workrooms.

Click here for more information and to purchase a copy of 'Making Every English Lesson Count' by Andy Tharby.
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The Primary Rocks conference is just one week away!
Saturday, 10 March 2018
"We are proud to announce the third annual #Primaryrocks conference. ‹The last primary focussed event sold out in 110 minutes and again promises to be excellent value CPD for teachers working in primary education."

‹Click here for more information on this event and to book your place now!
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'Release Your Inner Drive' is one of the finalists in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™!
Friday, 9 March 2018
‹If you haven't already done so, click here to discover and purchase your copy of 'Release Your Inner Drive' by Bradley Busch and Edward Watson.

Click here for more information on the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award„¢.
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