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What can we do to make secondary schools work better for working-class students?
This is a version of an article by Matt Bromley which first appeared in HWRK magazine and was written to accompany the book, The Working Classroom. The education system is rigged in favour of the privileged. Working-class students are disadvantaged from day one: their birth is, all too often, their destiny. To truly tackle inequality, Read more
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The meritocracy myth
This is a version of an article by Matt Bromley which first appeared in Teach Secondary magazine and was written to accompany the book, The Working Classroom. If you’re a high-ability pupil from a working class background, you aren’t going to do as well in school and in later life as a low-ability pupil from Read more
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Intent, Implementation, Impact
60 self-evaluation questions to help you audit your curriculum In my 2016 book, Making KS3 Count, there’s a section called ‘Making Curriculum Count’ in which I advocate a more joined-up approach to curriculum design to ensure greater continuity across the various years, key stages and phases of education. I also advise that schools plan engaging curriculums Read more
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Why social class should be the 10th protected characteristic – PART ONE
This is a version of an article by Matt Bromley which has appeared in various publications including Headteacher Update, SecEd, and DiverseEd, written to accompany the book, The Working Classroom. The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful for schools to discriminate against, harass or victimise a pupil or potential pupil: …because of their: These seven Read more
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The questioning classroom: 5 practical questioning techniques
In this five-part series, Matt Bromley looks at how we can create a questioning classroom. In part five, he walks us through five practical questioning techniques which you can adopt and adapt for your classroom and teaching… In this final instalment, I would like to share five practical questioning techniques. 1, Hot-seating Hot-seating is a Read more
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The questioning classroom: The purpose and timing of questions
In this five-part series, Matt Bromley looks at how we can create a questioning classroom. In part four, he explores the purposes of our questions, timing our questions effectively, how we can ‘pass a question around the classroom’, and questions as a form of scaffolding… So far in this series, we have seen how asking Read more
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The questioning classroom: How to encourage debate and discussion
In this five-part series, Matt Bromley looks at how we can create a questioning classroom. In part three, he explores ways of creating a classroom culture conducive to discussion and debate, including seven key rules, how to group students, and ways to reduce teacher talk… Last time, I explored a dialogic teaching strategy called Socratic Read more
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The questioning classroom: Socratic methods
In this five-part series, Matt Bromley looks at how we can create a questioning classroom. In part two, he explains 10 ways of questioning to promote critical thinking, looks at dialogic teaching, and offers a list of 38 Socratic questions… In part one, I said that open questions can be used to promote critical thinking. Read more
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How to create a questioning classroom
Good questioning is at the heart of great teaching. In this five-part series for SecEd Magazine, Matt Bromley looks at creating a questioning classroom. In part one, he considers 13 questioning techniques, as well as six ways of using closed questions and nine ways to use open questions… At the heart of every good story Read more
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Why I wrote The Working Classroom
My new book, The Working Classroom, is out now. It explores ways of making school work for working-class students. Here, I explain why I wrote the book and what makes it so personal… I was born and brought up in a depressed northern town in the shadow of dark satanic mills and disappointment. My family Read more
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How can we make English more real and relatable?
Matt Bromley was asked to contribute to a series of videos for Pearson Learning exploring ways of making English more real and relatable. You can watch those videos below. Here, he explains why English is the most important subject on the timetable and how we can make it talk to pupils’ lived experiences… This is Read more
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Why is English the most important subject on the school timetable?
Matt Bromley was asked to contribute to a series of videos for Pearson Learning exploring ways of making English more real and relatable. You can watch those videos below. Here, he explains why English is the most important subject on the timetable and how we can make it talk to pupils’ lived experiences… As an Read more
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