Tag: Teachers

Long gone are the days when Artificial Intelligence (AI) was just some futuristic concept. As we speak, AI is reshaping nearly every industry, and education is no exception. Classrooms have always had to evolve to keep pace with the ever-changing…

By Christopher Danielson, author of How Did You Count?, Which One Doesn’t Belong?, and How Many? Here is a photograph that comes from early development of my new book How Did You Count? How many tangerines are in this bowl?…

What happens to a child during the first five years of life has a huge influence on their current and long-term health, development, and well-being. Early childhood educators therefore play a critical role in the education and care of young…

This article by John and Kyle Hattie focuses on a key attribute of successful parenting – the skills of giving and receiving feedback. Feedback plays a critical role to support and enhance learning, but while research evidence shows it is…

Reviewer David O'Donnell reflects on author Tony McCaffrey's book Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre, featured in the journal Australasian Drama Studies, October 2024. Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre provides an in-depth, analytical study of…

Values education is needed for the traditional reasons of education people of character who will ensure a harmonious society, one that can deal in better ways with many of the current social issues and helps to promote the wellbeing of…

SEMH stands for Social, Emotional and Mental Health. In 2014, the term was created by SEN Code of Practice to replace SEBD, which stood for Social Emotional Behaviour Difficulties — a move that was designed to recognize the direct link between behaviour…

Academic reading skills are a discipline all on their own. It is very different from reading for pleasure or even the reading for learning you may have done in the past. The depth of understanding you will need is higher,…

What is Developmental Language Disorder? Those with developmental language disorder (DLD) have ongoing difficulties understanding and/or using spoken language. It’s a type of speech, language and communication need that significantly impacts how they communicate. Language, from verbal to written to…

Though seemingly ‘natural’, writing proves devilishly difficult for far too many school pupils and closing this gap can have a lasting impact on their academic and life success. This article by Alex Quigley introduces 7 steps to improve children's writing…