January 13, 2017 at 01:06PM One of the largest lead schools in the government’s “returner teachers” pilot says demands for flexible working scuppered the scheme – leaving it with just three of the 23 teachers it retrained. In last year’s Return to Teaching pilot schools were given £1,900 to retrain and employ qualified teachers no […]

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January 13, 2017 at 02:24AM A new analysis has found a headteacher’s performance is not linked to their subject background – challenging previous research that claimed heads of failing academies can be categorised into five different types. Researchers from the Centre for High Performance published a report last year that claimed “architects”, often a former

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January 13, 2017 at 12:24AM A Cumbrian academy trust with just two schools has been warned over its finances and had its spending powers restricted – becoming the latest in a growing list of primary-only trusts to run into difficulties. The Building Futures Enterprise Academy Trust, sponsor of Tebay Primary and Yanwath Primary schools in

January 12, 2017 at 10:10PM It’s hard to have a discussion about learning without someone sooner or later chipping in with the Russian developmental psychologist, Lev Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development (ZDP) to support their position. This might, in part, be because Vygotsky is one of the very few theorists covered in many teachers’ training, but