Category Archives: curriculum

Taking on a line management role in the school hierarchy can be challenging and requires a whole new range of skills. Matt Bromley offers five principles to help you become an effective line manager… This article first appeared in SecEd Magazine on 5 June 2024. When a teacher is first promoted to a leadership position,Continue reading “Effective line management in schools”

The 4Ps offer a shared language for consistent high quality teaching. In this five-part series, Matt Bromley breaks down each one and offers practical strategies for teachers. In part three, he breaks down the fourth P – progress… This article first appeared in SecEd Magazine on 21 May 2024. My 4Ps framework has been formulatedContinue reading “The 4Ps: Progress”

The 4Ps offer a shared language for consistent high quality teaching and curriculum delivery. In this five-part series, Matt Bromley breaks down each one and offers practical strategies and self-evaluation criteria for teachers. In part one, he introduces the 4Ps… This article first appeared in SecEd Magazine on 24 April 2024. One of the schoolsContinue reading “The 4Ps: A shared language for high-quality teaching”

Knowledge begets knowledge. The more you know, the easier it is to know more. But the opposite is also true meaning we often exclude students from learning unwittingly. Matt Bromley offers a three-point plan to address this… This article first appeared in SecEd Magazine on 19 March 2024. In my keynote at SecEd’s recent National SENDContinue reading “A mirror and a window: Using the curriculum to include the excluded”

How can we ensure that our English lessons speak to our students’ lived experiences and thus engage their attention and allow them to see the vital relevance of this core subject? Matt Bromley advises… This article first appeared in SecEd Magazine on 4 March 2024. In a recent video for the Let’s Talk English series, I arguedContinue reading “Making English more relatable”

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 aContinue reading “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 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 askingContinue reading “The questioning classroom: The purpose and timing of questions”