36. Reading for Pleasure with James Clements, Dr Sarah McGeown and Lindsay Pickton

36. Reading for Pleasure with James Clements, Dr Sarah McGeown and Lindsay Pickton

Learn all about the link between motivation and reading for pleasure in this insightful conversation between Oxford Education’s Mary Hamley and reading experts James Clements, Lindsay Pickton and Dr Sarah McGeown. We discuss how you can grow a reading culture in your classroom, how to encourage students to read for pleasure, and practical tips to …

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35. Fight For Rights: Enrich Your KS3 History Curriculum

35. Fight For Rights: Enrich Your KS3 History Curriculum

Aaron Wilkes, Alex Fairlamb, Becky Carter, Dan Lyndon-Cohen and Josh Preye Garry discuss how effective teaching of case studies on the fights for Women’s Rights, Disability Rights, Black Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ Rights can enrich your Key Stage 3 curriculum. What do students gain from studying these topics at KS3? How has historical scholarship changed …

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34. Migration: Enrich your KS3 History curriculum

34. Migration: Enrich your KS3 History curriculum

Aaron Wilkes and Shalina Patel discuss how effective teaching of migration can enrich your Key Stage 3 curriculum, with insights from Liberty Melly and Tia Shah from the learning team at the Migration Museum. What do students gain from studying migration at KS3? How has historical scholarship on migration changed in recent years? What is …

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33. Ofsted-proof your curriculum: coherence & mastery in the KS3 classroom

33. Ofsted-proof your curriculum: coherence & mastery in the KS3 classroom

  Will Power talks to David Harris about the main challenges in the KS3 Maths classroom. They discuss: What makes a curriculum coherent and why this is important. How mastery supports learning that lasts How to ensure your curriculum is Ofsted ready  Will Power is OUP’s maths publisher with responsibility for all primary and secondary …

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32. Vocabulary and oracy strategies for the KS3 classroom

32. Vocabulary and oracy strategies for the KS3 classroom

Helen Prince and Gaurav Dubay discuss the crucial role vocabulary and oracy strategies play in the Key Stage 3 classroom. They highlight the importance of focusing on talk and vocabulary to help students rehearse written outcomes before taking the next step and moving onto writing. They discuss drama, fluency, modelling and reducing cognitive load with …

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31. African Kingdoms: Enrich your KS3 History curriculum

31. African Kingdoms: Enrich your KS3 History curriculum

Aaron Wilkes, Katie Amery and Teni Gogo discuss how effective teaching of African Kingdoms can enrich your Key Stage 3 curriculum.   What do students gain from studying African Kingdoms at KS3? How has historical scholarship on African Kingdoms changed in recent years? What is the impact of new research on how we should teach the …

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30. British Empire: Enrich your KS3 History curriculum

30. British Empire: Enrich your KS3 History curriculum

  Aaron Wilkes and Shalina Patel discuss how effective teaching of the British Empire can enrich your Key Stage 3 curriculum. What do students gain from studying the British Empire? How has historical scholarship on the British Empire changed in recent years? What is the impact of new research on how we should teach the …

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29: Engaging Every Learner: Identity and the Science Classroom

29: Engaging Every Learner: Identity and the Science Classroom

In this episode we welcome Genevieve Bent, Assistant Principal leading Sixth Form and former Head of Science at the Harris Federation, and Lynda Charlesworth, Head of Science at Camden School for Girls. Genevieve and Lynda talk to Lamorna Newcombe, Science Publisher at Oxford University Press, about the importance of identity in engaging students in their …

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28: Supporting teachers in Wales with reading

28: Supporting teachers in Wales with reading

  Andrea Quincey and Rob Randal discuss how we can support the teaching of reading in Wales. We look at the current context of reading instruction in Wales and explore the science of reading before going on to discuss Rob’s experiences of using a phonics programme in his school. We talk about the many aspects …

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27. Disciplinary literacy in the classroom with Kathrine Mortimore

27. Disciplinary literacy in the classroom with Kathrine Mortimore

Helen Prince talks to Kathrine Mortimore about ways to employ disciplinary literacy techniques in your classroom. The EEF have placed disciplinary literacy as their number one strategy for improving literacy in secondary schools. Kathrine and Helen discuss the importance of: showing students what excellence looks like in your subject; the explicit teaching of challenging key …

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