Course: Supporting Successful Learning in Secondary School

Pupils have to be physically and emotionally in the right place to learn, but that’s not to say they can’t have good and bad days, just like adults. We need …

People’s values, beliefs and attitudes are formed and bonded over time through the influences of family, friends, society and life experiences. So, by the time you’re an adult, you can …

In a paper entitled ‘Beginning teacher curriculum decision making, personal teaching metaphors, and teacher education’ (please note this article is behind a paywall), there’s a description of the metaphors two …

There’s still debate about the reliability of the Implicit Association Tests mentioned in Step 1.7, but as one of the researcher’s argues – just because there’s debate about the subject …

Being a good educator is knowing who you are and understanding yourself. This very much applies to the staff who have supporting roles within schools too, and metaphors are a …

In the previous Step you’ve looked at unconscious bias and how this way of thinking leads to making automatic and unintentional judgments. In the first of our round table discussions, …

Now that you know what’s required of a good listener, this peer coaching exercise will allow you to practice your listening skills, and empower others to try and work out …

In this Step, Helen Bilton was in conversation with the University of Reading’s Online Course Team. Hi Helen, thanks for taking the time to answer some of our questions today. …

There’s an aspect of your values, beliefs and attitudes system that helps you make decisions which is called the unconscious bias. Bias is a tendency to either lean towards or …

In this video you hear again from Janine, Luke and Helen in our last round table discussion of the course. Janine and Luke discuss with Helen the skills pupils need …

In Step 4.13 you’ve explored three types of question, and as mentioned in the Step 4.12 – the quality of an answer received is determined by the quality of the …

In Step 3.11 you saw that to have a good working atmosphere you needed: high quality relationships, to ensure effective use of language and, work with a framework of principles. …

“If you want interesting answers, you’ve got to ask interesting questions.” – Ted Wragg, Professor of Education A question is an enquiry either spoken or written to find something out, …

In the video ‘Questions’, Professor Ted Wragg, an educationalist and academic, discusses three types of questions, he discovered, were often asked in schools. Let’s break these down a little further: …

Listening involves giving attention, and when a person doesn’t get that attention, they can feel upset, confused, angry and it can affect their self-esteem. It can also cause them to …