Category Archives: teaching

This article was written for SecEd Magazine Cognitive science has much to tell us about how children learn and how we should teach. But converting this into classroom practice can sometimes feel challenging. Matt Bromley offers 30 tangible tips for teachers… According to the educational psychologist, Paul Kirschner, learning is a change in long-term memory.Continue reading “Cognitive science in the classroom”

This article was written for SecEd Magazine What if we sought to put greater depth and therefore less breadth into our teaching, being clearer about and taking more time over key concepts and making our curriculum planning more effective? Matt Bromley calls this ‘slow teaching’… In my key stage 3 English lessons this term, IContinue reading “Slow teaching”

This article was written for SecEd Magazine The PISA research says that ‘adaptive instruction’ is one of the approaches most positively correlated with student performance. Matt Bromley looks at what adaptive teaching entails and how to deliver it One of my former students – I’ll call him John – contacted me recently. He wanted toContinue reading “Adaptive teaching”

This article was written for SecEd Magazine From September 2021, the early career teacher (ECT) induction is doubling for all new teachers in England from one to two years (following a pilot in some schools in the North East, Greater Manchester, Bradford and Doncaster that began in September 2020). But why? Why do we needContinue reading “Explainer: The 2-year induction for Early Career Teachers”

This article was written for SecEd Magazine In November’s special supplement for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) , I contributed three articles in which I proffered my advice on surviving and thriving as a new teacher. In the first of those articles, I tried to reassure new teachers that, whilst teaching is tough, it is toughContinue reading “Explainer: The Early Career Framework”

This is an edited extract from the book, School and College Curriculum Design 3: Impact. For more information on this book and the first two in the series, as well as to access a raft of free curriculum resources, visit our Curriculum Central page. Ethical leadership principles  Ethical leadership in education is driven by aContinue reading “Impact – Step 6: Lead ethically”

This article was written for SecEd magazine Despite the end of the third, and hopefully the last, national lockdown, it is inevitable that some pupils will still have to resort to home learning in the coming weeks and months due to self-isolation, local lockdowns or even non-Covid reasons such as flooding or snow days. ItContinue reading “The 3Ms of effective remote learning”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in June 2021.  You can download the full supplement for free on the SecEd website here.   In September, I wrote a two-part article on the subject of curriculum impact (Bromley, 2020a; 2020b). In those pieces, I argued that test and qualification outcomes are no longer the sole lensContinue reading “Curriculum impact: pupil progress, outcomes and preparedness”