Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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Balancing the purposes of instructional coaching
Instructional coach and Ambition Fellow Steve Farndon explores some of the purposes of instructional coaching – comparing an emphasis on habit formation with one that prioritises the development of teachers’ mental models around teaching.
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Six opportunities to develop your teaching and leading with the specialist NPQs
We take a look at how three new specialist NPQs can help develop teaching and leading in your school.
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Using prior knowledge to tackle memory retention and reduce cognitive load
Sabrina Castro unpacks how insights from her professional development have helped to maximise pupil learning, such as using prior knowledge to reduce cognitive load.
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Six ways ECTs and mentors will get quality support from the Early Career Framework
Find out more about Early Career Framework, from funding and eligibility to teacher retention.
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Using the science of mental models in my classroom
Kat Howard explains how combining an approach based on mental models with curriculum design has helped her to make learning stick.