Category Archives: teaching

This is the first in a 5-part series first published in SecEd Magazine. I am in the middle of writing a book about achieving equity in education. I must admit, I’m feeling more optimistic about this goal of late. The new government has already acknowledged the need to transform the education system so that youngContinue reading “The ABC of Equity 1: A plan to tackle disadvantage in schools”

This is an edited extract from The Stories We Tell by Matt Bromley, which is published by Routledge. It is available now. For more details, please click here. We only remember something once. Every subsequent memory is a memory of a memory and each time we ‘remember’ a memory, we change it, reshape it, polishContinue reading “The stories we tell ourselves”

This is an edited extract from The Stories We Tell by Matt Bromley, which is published by Routledge. It is available now. For more details, please click here. Story is as old as civilisation. Before the invention of writing, people told each other stories as a means of passing important information from branch to branchContinue reading “The power and the story”

by Matt Bromley Getting learning objectives and success criteria right makes a huge difference to student outcomes. Matt Bromley offers practical tips, including a 10-step sequence for writing effective learning objectives and advice on the best language to use… Before you read this article, do me a favour and draw a picture of a house.Continue reading “Learning objectives and success criteria”

by Matt Bromley Practice does not make perfect, it makes permanent. Whatever you practice to the point of automaticity, you make habitual and can do without active thought. This reduces cognitive load and frees up precious working memory capacity which can then be put to better use.  So, what are the 10 most impactful routinesContinue reading “When September comes… 10 classroom routines to embed”

By Matt Bromley Teaching isn’t just a job, it’s a profession.  The Cambridge Dictionary defines a profession as “any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill, often one that is respected because it involves a high level of education”.  A professional, meanwhile, is defined as “having the qualities that you connect with trained andContinue reading “What does it mean to be a professional?”

This article first appeared in SecEd’s Vulnerable Learners supplement in March 2024… Disadvantaged pupils are more than twice as likely to be absent from school as their non-disadvantaged peers. And, although there has long been an attendance gap, the divide has widened since the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2022-2023, 37.9% of disadvantaged pupils were persistently absentContinue reading “Improving the attendance of disadvantaged students”