Welcome to our National Priorities area where you can access links related to the key areas highlighted by the DfE for school improvement.
New Teachers’ Standards
As of September 2012 all teachers are expected to meet new standards of competence and conduct.
Behaviour Management and Discipline
- Department for Education (DfE) School Behaviour Advice and Guidance Section
- DfE - Ensuring Good Behaviour in Schools: Advice for headteachers, governing bodies, teachers, parents and pupils on good behaviour in schools
- DfE - Behaviour and Discipline in Schools: A guide for head teachers and school staff includes advice on powers school staff have
- DfE - Doing the Basics Charlie Taylor’s Behaviour Checklist: Charlie Taylor, the Government’s behaviour expert, advises schools on simple techniques to promote calm and good conduct in the classroom
- DfE - Improving Teacher Training for Behaviour: Improving teacher training for behaviour has been developed by Charlie Taylor, the Government’s expert adviser on behaviour, to complement the new Teachers’ Standards that all teachers have to demonstrate from September 2012
- DfE - Themes: Behaviour: Summaries of research written for practitioners on managing behaviour in the classroom
- Support materials to tackle bullying
- Ofsted - No Place for Bullying: this report from June 2012: this focuses on how schools can create a positive culture to prevent and tackle bullying. - http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/no-place-for-bullying
- Stonewall the School Report: report of the findings of their research into homophobic bullying in schools.
- Stonewall - Initial Teacher Training: a guide to help all trainee teachers access information on how to prevent and tackle homophobic bullying
- All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image: report about the effects of negative body image on boys and girls and the links to bullying in schools
- Teachers Media Behaviour Management Videos from Teachers TV Archive
Inclusion: Special Educational Needs and / or Disability (SEND)
- Children and Families bill (2013)
- Department for Education (DfE) Special Educational Needs Section
- DfE - SEND Green Paper: Information on the special educational needs and disability (SEND) green paper 'Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability'
- DfE - Training for Teaching SEND Students: Information on materials to support the continuing professional development of the teachers of children and young people with severe, profound and complex learning difficulties and disabilities in response to recommendations made in the Salt Review
- DfE - Advanced Training Materials: E-learning materials supporting the continuing professional development of teachers of children and young people with autism; dyslexia; speech, language and communication needs; emotional, social and behavioural difficulties; and moderate learning difficulties
- Parliament website section on SEND
- National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN)
- Teachers Media - SEND Videos from Teachers TV Archive
Inclusion: English as an Additional Language (EAL)
- Department for Education (DfE) English as an Additional Language section
- DfE - EAL Resources: Regarding the Department’s strategy for supporting pupils with English as an additional language (EAL), including case studies and useful publications
- National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC)
- Teachers Media - EAL Videos from Teachers TV Archive
Literacy Skills (including Systematic Synthetic Phonics)
- Systematic synthetic phonics in initial teaching training - Guidance and support materials
- Department for Education (DfE) Phonics section
- Rose, J. (2006) Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading, DFES: London
Early Mathematics
- Williams, P. (2008), Independent Review of Mathematics Teaching in Early Years Settings and Primary Schools Nottingham: DCSF
- Mathematics: Made to Measure (Ofsted – messages from inspection evidence)
- Ofsted: Good practice in primary mathematics: evidence from 20 successful schools
- Draft National Curriculum Documents for primary English, maths and science
