This teacher talks about the characteristics, playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critic...

Mick Waters considers the place of rote learning in education and its strengths and limitations.

Mick Waters on successful schools and school improvement.

Purpose, process and audience.

Patricia Broadfoot discusses the importance of setting learning objectives.

An Early Years teacher defines learning outcomes.

Why don't we assess across a broad curriculum and acknowledge that learning is complex and uneven?

What is the starting point in planning learning?

Less focussed on outcomes than process, this teacher believes that learning from mistakes helps to build resilience a...

Teacher reflection on first steps in EYFS music.

Children respond to the name song, singing their own name to the backing.

I'm a little teapot and the 'ABC' song, pulse and actions.

Listening for a heartbeat/pulse, Reception play along on woodblocks.

This teacher discusses some of the elements of keyboard provision within a music service.

Keyboard can often be overlooked in the musical provision within schools.

Rhythm cards are a useful starter activity for many aspects of teaching. In this example, the teacher uses an ipad to...