Workload Management: Triage in the Digital Age
As we gear up for exam season, it can feel like workload is at its height. Revision sessions, anxious students, last minute arrangements...
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Jonathan Kay
Apr 304 min read
Revision and Exam Preparation in English and maths
‘No one has ever regretted being over-prepared’ As the final sprint of the marathon that has been 2023/24 approaches, many students (and...
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Jonathan Kay
Apr 164 min read
Exciting initiative! Collaboration! Impact…?
Collaborative opportunities and innovation are everywhere, but are we always seeing the impact we need?
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Jonathan Kay
Mar 44 min read
The Importance of Networking
"Instead of better glasses, your network gives you better eyes." - Ronald Burt, American Sociologist As we continue to settle into 2024,...
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Jonathan Kay
Feb 274 min read
Maths, Challenges and Opportunities
With the Department for Education recently announcing minimum hours of study for resit students in FE, most discussion has been around...
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Jonathan Kay
Jan 93 min read
Adaptive Teaching: are we doing it right?
As differentiation becomes ‘an increasingly unpopular term in teaching’[1], adaptive teaching has taken the spotlight. But why the...
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Joseph Desforges
Dec 20, 20233 min read
English and maths, BASE and the year that was.
With just a few short weeks left in 2023, many students, teachers and leaders will begin to reflect on the year that was. With the rise...
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Jonathan Kay
Nov 28, 20233 min read
The habit of excellence
‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit’ Aristotle With massive changes not only in student numbers...
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Jonathan Kay
Nov 7, 20233 min read
How do we solve a problem like workload?
With an explosion in the number of students within FE English and maths in 2023/24, it’s clear that workload - and workload management -...
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Jonathan Kay
Oct 20, 20233 min read
Leading in English and maths: doing the right things at the right times in the right way
With 82% of leaders classed as ‘accidental managers’ (in that they have had no formal leadership training before taking up a management...
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Jonathan Kay
Oct 5, 20234 min read
Qualification reform and how to solve a problem like GCSE resits
With Rishi Sunak’s much welcomed announcement that English and maths in Further Education is to receive a significant funding increase,...
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The Development Wheel Team
Sep 19, 20234 min read
November Resits: Chosen Few Or All In?
As 2023/24 sparks into life, exam season (both gone and future) seems a million miles away. However, for some, exams are closer than we’d...
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Jonathan Kay
Sep 6, 20233 min read
English and maths in FE: central team or embedded component?
One of the special things about Further Education is how truly unique it is. From the spectrum of students and professionals to the range...
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Jonathan Kay
Aug 23, 20233 min read
Results Day, reflection, and the power of ‘so, now what?’
Teachers, students, parents, leaders, all toiling away throughout the year to achieve the best possible result with a single date in...
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The Development Wheel Team
Aug 9, 20233 min read
Reflections on 2022-23
As most of us enjoy a well-earned rest after the close of another academic year, it’s vitally important that we take time to look back...
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Jonathan Kay
Jul 11, 20233 min read
Embedding English and maths in Further Education
With an ever-increasing focus on English and maths in Further Education, effective embedding of literacy and numeracy skills in all areas...
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Jonathan Kay
Jun 27, 20233 min read
Interviewing our new National Maths Lead
With our DfE funded BASE Project (a fully funded, fully resourced resource to support Post-16 English and maths students, teachers and...
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Jonathan Kay
Jun 11, 20233 min read
Literacy, reading for pleasure and a generational problem.
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope” - Kofi Annan With over a quarter of a million children set to enter secondary school without...
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Jonathan Kay
May 31, 20233 min read
Naturalness Bias, English and maths and grit.
In her celebrated TED talk, Angela Lee Duckworth speaks at length about the factors which support people to be successful. From...
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Jonathan Kay
May 18, 20233 min read
GCSE, Functional Skills and online assessments: are exams coming to a screen near you?
With artificial intelligence (AI) seemingly taking the world by storm over the last few months, talk has again turned to how this can and...
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