The emerging consensus from the world’s leading education systems is to step away from academic exam grades as the measure of educational success to a measure within the development of a more holistic curriculum centred on overall personal development. In an age when many students are only as happy as their last text message it is important to raise ambition, resilience confidence and healthy lifestyles. Discover the simple steps to create and sustain an opportunity rich learning culture and help your students to access and maintain good personal mental and physical health.

Jazz up your Q&A with an abundance of non threatening but highly effective Q&A strategies. Build learner confidence, avoid monosyllabic answers and ensure productive checks on progress through regular ‘all response’ questioning strategies. Build spontaneous participation through the use of ‘story boards’ to check for prior learning, apply spaced practice with regular ‘recall’ questions, check progress mid lesson with Wiliam’s highly recommended Hinge questions and PPPB strategies and lastly end the lesson with self assessment checks to follow up in the next lesson. Shift your focus from a presentation base to seeking evidence of progress and understanding. Aim to identify and correct misconceptions as they arise in real time. Too often we are encouraged to start lessons with the statement, “By the end of the lesson you will be able to …” but how do you know? All evidence-based practice with full academic referencing.