In the week Tes reported that a group of four multi-academy trusts will establish and run the new £121 million National Institute of Teaching, a report suggested that teachers “should foster vulnerable pupils” and Ofsted released its findings on the English curriculum.
Among other things, we asked what has gone wrong with catch-up - and can it catch up? We also looked at the classroom activities that boost GCSE scores and how minister for school standards, Robin Walker, is going to “make England the best place in the world to be a teacher”.
Catch up on your must-read Tes news and features articles from the past week right here:
News
- Social care review: ‘Teachers should foster vulnerable pupils’
Children who cannot be cared for by their family network could be fostered by their teacher, a new report, published today, suggests. The report, an independent review of children’s social care, says the belief that it is “inappropriate” for a teacher and other “known adults” to become their pupil’s foster carer “needs to change”.
- 7 Ofsted findings on the English curriculum
Ofsted has produced a new research review setting out how schools can deliver a high-quality curriculum in English literature and language. The subject research review is the latest in a series from the inspectorate since it launched the education inspection framework, which places an increased emphasis on the delivery of the curriculum. We round up its key findings.
- Give weaker students best teachers to raise grades, schools told
The most “highly rated” teachers should be assigned to lower-achieving students to raise GCSE grades, a report suggests. Students taught by a teacher who had been rated as highly effective scored better than those taught by a teacher from the bottom quartile. The researchers found that this mattered less for “relatively higher achieving students and classes” but made a greater difference for average or below-average students.
- DfE hiring more attendance advisers to ‘challenge’ schools
The Department for Education is looking to double the number of £500-a-day “attendance advisers” in order to “challenge” more schools and local authorities on their approaches to cutting pupil absence.
- SLDT given £121m Institute of Teaching go-ahead
A group of four multi-academy trusts will establish and run the new £121 million National Institute of Teaching (NIoT), the government has confirmed. The School Led Development Trust (SLDT) will run the new teacher-training academy from the autumn. We explain everything you need to know about the NIoT here.
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