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In summary: To get your students caught up with outstanding curriculum requirements, you should: Identify the gaps and prioritise the needs Make a plan Focus on the fundamentals Consider the creative learning opportunities you may

In summary: To teach spelling to primary or elementary-aged students, you should: Strengthen their ability to commit words to memory Expand their lexical store (the number of words they know) Develop their linguistic understanding (why

In summary: To teach vocabulary, an effective teacher will provide opportunities to: say, hear, read and write new words explore word meanings in everyday language create sentences with the word in context consider alternative meanings

In summary: Mathematical fluency skills help students think faster and more clearly, giving them the energy, attention and focus to tackle complex problem-solving and reasoning questions. The future needs problem-solvers with reasoning skills. But as education

In summary: Mathematical fluency is the combined ability of students to recall mathematics facts and concepts without thinking, their number sense, flexibility of thinking, appropriate and efficient responses to problems, the accuracy of their answers, and

The holidays: A time for eating, travel, fun with family, relaxation and, potentially, homework. It’s a debate that’s been going on for years: Does study time have any place during school vacations? The

2020 is just around the corner, so we gathered our team of Education Specialists to make their predictions on what’s going to be big in the world of education next year. Here’s what we think:

Personalised learning (PLE) can seem like an impossibility when you run your eyes over the 20, 30 or even 40 students in your class. But student count isn't going to be what makes or breaks

Understanding Personalised Learning Personalised learning is commonly misunderstood across the education community – it’s the intent to meet the educational needs of individual students based on their interests, aspirations and backgrounds. Education Elements breaks

My first experience with personalised learning was in a suburban primary school. There, with five other matured university students, I was left in charge of one group of six little learners. Together we were going