Teaching and learning

Getting students to 'own' the value of Shakespeare as part of their cultural capital is not necessarily straightforward. Francis Gilbert, journalist and PGCE and MA course leader, suggests how you can familiarise your students with Shakespeare's language.

Speech and language experts Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne share their advice for empowering students with knowledge of prefixes and suffixes as part of their vocabulary learning.

Torsten Payne is a CPD author and teacher with over 20 years’ experience teaching in a range of settings, from big cities to rural comprehensives. Here are his tips for working with gifted and talented students.

David Didau – trainer, consultant, writer and former English teacher – questions the received wisdom that all marking is good marking and suggests how to make your feedback to students worthwhile. He explores the underlying reasons why marking is essential to progress and suggests ideas for how you can provide clarity, and increase students’ effort and aspirations.

Alan Parkinson is a head of department, blogger and textbook author. He shares his ideas for supporting younger students as they join secondary school.

October marks Black History Month in the UK. Raise awareness and help children understand the importance of black history with our Black History Month resources for the primary classroom.