Ask any teacher what their classroom looked like ten years ago and they’ll take you on a trip down memory lane. Chalk boards instead of smart boards. Notepads instead of iPads. Computer rooms instead of desk computers. Despite these shifts, one thing remains
Structuring a science lesson for primary-age students is different from how you’d structure a spelling, reading or mathematics lesson. Science lessons need to be structured in a way that helps students think scientifically. We can encourage scientific thinking through a solid science lesson
STEM is the key to the future, and the future is in the hands of our children…which can put a lot of pressure on primary teachers to get their heads and minds across the S in STEM. Kirren, a primary teacher new to science,
Teaching primary students science can be an effort. However, there are simple ways to bring science into the class, reducing preparation time and increasing quality, hands-on scientific discovery. To start with, it's as simple as getting your students into an NOS frame of mind.
Welcome to the very first 3P Learning Podcast! Our 3P Education Specialists are always talking pedagogy, learning frameworks and what's happening in the world of education, so we decided to stick a microphone in front of them. Now you get to enjoy the monster
Lacking divine prescience, our long walk back to school is one shrouded in mystery. Armed with lesson plans, resources, opening lines and mentally prepared for a swarm of new faces, we’re ready to face the first day of a new year… Right until a
How to analyse Mathletics reports to inform your teaching and planning Interpreting and analysing the reports section of the teacher console in Mathletics Click here to register Mathletics Teacher Console -
When school is on holiday over the summer or even during winter break, it's surprising how quickly academic skills get left behind. In fact, a Harvard study found that students lose an average of 2.6 months of math skills during the summer months. The
How to make gamification work in your classroom Over the past 39 years we've watched gamification take shape in our classes and lessons. It's a powerful teaching strategy when leveraged correctly - but how and where to start gamification can be confusing for
The average person can spell around 48,000 words. Roughly speaking, that’s one-tenth of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, half the amount of total words in The Hobbit, and about as long as that email you shouldn’t have sent that one time. Teaching students to memorise 48,000
You want your students to stop throwing a ball around the class. Is it better to let them keep the ball and give them detention, or take the ball away? Negative reinforcement is a classroom management strategy that focuses on removing (or negating) stimuli
Understanding Summer learning loss Summer learning loss – or the summer slide – is an educational phenomenon where students lose some of the knowledge, skills and ability they acquired over the school year. Besides the initial problem breaking the momentum of continual learning
The impact of Summer learning loss Want to understand Summer learning loss in a glance? Check out our Summer learning loss summary of the studies, stats and facts here. Summer learning loss plagues educators from year to year, seeing hard-fought lessons and work
Contextualised teaching and learning is the practice that answers the three most common student questions: ‘Why are we doing this?’ ‘When will I use this?’ ‘Is it in the exam?’ In other words – ‘why is this relevant to me?’ Defining relevancy
Grammar and writing are tricky because you most likely use correct grammar and writing everyday but without quite knowing why. It would be jarring to read ‘I saw a duck jump into a pond and he dove under the water for a wash’ -
