Supporting resources – Week 5

This week we’ve picked out some resources that can be found on the National STEM Learning Centre website. Sometimes registration is required to access specific files – this is quick and easy.

Strategies that differentiate instruction

A fantastic range of ideas for differentiation, and very readable. Try here is you cannot access the above link.

Improving learning in mathematics

These resources offer practical and effective ways to improve learning in secondary mathematics.

Closing the gap: test and learn – executive summary (Winter 2016)

Over 200 teaching schools alliances worked together to carry out 11 large-scale, randomised controlled trials, where one group of students is taught using a new method and another group is taught in the usual way and their performance compared.

Seven interventions were chosen through an extensive and systematic consultation and review of interventions seen as most likely to close the attainment gap for students with achievement below the national average in literacy and numeracy, including growth mindsets.

Supporting Access in Science

This resource includes guidance and useful differentiation ideas specific to science. The guidance was produced considering the key areas of special needs that may create barriers to learning