Classroom differentiation: Ability, readiness, and interest

As a key part of classroom differentiation, teachers should establish their pupils’ learning readiness, interest, and abilities. Scoring learner profiles in these three areas arms teachers with the best strategy […]

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How To Encourage Public Speaking in Children

Public speaking is an important skill for children to learn. It allows them to express themselves clearly and can help improve their academic performance and personal growth. Whether it’s giving […]

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Engage different learning profiles in the classroom

Differentiation in the classroom is an important skill for teachers to give pupils the best chance at learning, regardless of their abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. These conditions can be applied […]

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Classroom differentiation: Seven types of learners

The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) introduced differentiation in the classroom to identify pupils with different strengths and weaknesses to help increase their best chance of learning. Differentiation […]

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Physical Education Classroom

The Best Interactive Whiteboard Games for Physical Education

Technology helps teachers enrich the curriculum and boost student engagement. Interactive whiteboards and displays, in particular, can make lessons appeal to all students, regardless of their preferred learning style.  Even […]

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Collaborative vs. cooperative learning

When it comes to students working together, the terms collaborative learning and cooperative learning are often used interchangeably. There are still some key differences; with collaborative learning, students make individual […]

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How Do Interactive Whiteboards Meet Individual Learner Needs?

Over the years, the interactive whiteboard has become an integral part of classrooms. Still, its usefulness often gets overlooked, resulting in the technology not being utilised to its full capacity. […]

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How Can Teachers Prepare for the New School Year?

With the new school year fast approaching, it’s essential that you are ready for everything that it can throw your way. New students, lesson plans and targets for professional development […]

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The Ultimate Guide to Learning Styles in the Classroom

As a teacher, you will understand that every child is different. We all are. While this individuality can enrich lessons and subjects by encouraging debate and differences of opinion, it […]

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How to Teach Children with an Auditory Learning Style

First theorised by Neil Fleming, the VARK model identifies four learning styles that everyone fits into: visual, auditory, reading and writing, and kinesthetic.  This idea is built on the fact […]

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How to Teach Children with a Kinaesthetic Learning Style

There is no right or wrong way to process information. Everyone has a preferred way of learning, from looking at images to simply observing demonstrations. Kinaesthetic learners understand information better […]

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What should student data really be used for?

Today, personal information is constantly being collected and schools are no different. There are two types of student data commonly being harvested; performance information collected by teachers and held by […]

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Three tips on future-proofing your classroom with technology

Edtech has always been fundamental in creating a dynamic classroom environment with continuous opportunities for student interaction. To foster greater student engagement in the classroom and unlock exciting new activities […]

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How to reduce the burden of teacher workloads

Teacher workload has reached critical levels. Indeed, according to the latest State of Technology in Education report, most teachers believe workload is contributing to high levels of stress in schools.  […]

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How to Teach Children with a Visual Learning Style

Learning styles are based on the theory that everyone learns in different ways. Some people learn better when they can see the information in front of them, whereas others learn […]

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How to Teach Children with a Reading and Writing Learning Style

While some people prefer to learn by taking in information via videos or actions, some prefer reading and writing to help information sink in. These learners are said to have […]

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Refreshing pedagogy with the ActivPanel 

Founded in 1924, Regent House is a large co-educational grammar school situated in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. For almost two decades, the school has partnered with Promethean, using interactive solutions to […]

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Seven Strategies to Keep Students with ADHD Engaged in the Classroom

As an educator, student engagement is a constant battle. Teaching in modern classroom environments can sometimes feel like you’re competing for your pupils’ attention against a seemingly endless stream of […]

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Schoolwide ActivPanel upgrade makes cross-curricular headway

Saint Brigid’s National School in Dublin, is a Catholic co-educational primary school that champions connectivity and forward thinking. Having experienced the benefits of Promethean solutions since 2003, the school recently […]

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shy or quiet students in the classroom

How to Engage Shy and Quiet Students in The Classroom? 9 Top Tips.

All students learn differently, and no matter the school year or the size of the class, there are always going to be students who are a bit more reluctant to […]

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Blackburn Rovers Sports College: from presentation to education with the ActivPanel

Blackburn Rovers Sports College specialises in delivering business and sports courses for young people aged 16-24 who are not in employment, education, or training. The charity-run college provides a variety […]

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Maintaining high standards with the ActivPanel at St John Bosco Senior Boys School

Quality lesson delivery has always been a top priority at St John Bosco Senior Boys School in Dublin. To build on this commitment, the school recently enhanced its classroom hardware […]

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Enhancing education experiences with the ActivPanel

Situated in Hampstead, St Christopher’s School is an independent school for girls age 4 to 11, whose ethos champions creativity and curiosity. The school previously had interactive whiteboards, but they […]

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engaging students in the classroom without wholly relying on technology

How to Engage Students Without Relying Solely on Technology

Technology has become an integral part of education in today’s digital age. It definitely has incredible benefits to offer in classrooms, but an overreliance on technology can lead to disengaged […]

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