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Fed up with students questioning why they are learning something? Then use the phrase ‘so that’, argues Mark Enser

Teachers should be the ones deciding what pupils learn and how – pupils have plenty of time to explore their own interests outside of school after all

Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards – Mark Enser explains how he came to this realisation for his cover lessons

Critics of the national curriculum falsely claim it reduces learning to a list of facts to be memorised, says Mark Enser

Attention in lessons is fundamental to learning, so anything teachers and schools can do to create attention-positive environments should be seized

In switching focus from exams to curriculum, Ofsted fails to appreciate the reality for teachers, says Mark Enser