Pupil

mentors make an impact on their pupils from behind the scenes and projecting the success of the pupil totally on the pupil much in the way that the farmers believed that Wilbur had written the messages in the web, simply because they did not see Charlotte, they only saw Wilbur. Mentors are rarely seen themselves and only known by the success that their pupils enjoy. One can further see the impact that mentors have in that they provide the additional push needed by the pupil to launch into the…

Cambridge university press (2015) defines pedagogy as the study of methods and activities of teaching. Pedagogy is the driving force of education it defines what we do, why we do and how we do it. Effective pedagogy can be broken down into 10 pedagogical principles. TLRP (2009) states that the purpose of the 10 principles were to link all sectors in education and show that learning never stops from preschool to further education to adulthood. Pedagogy is about ongoing learning for individuals…

Understanding of the nature and content of personalised learning In 2004, the Five Year Strategy for Children and Learners (Department for Education and Skills, DfES 2004: 7) emphasised personalised learning as “a system that responds to individual pupils, by creating an education path that takes account of their needs, interests and aspirations.” Another definition provided by Miliband (DfES, 2004b) is the “high expectation of every child, given practical form by high quality teaching based on…

Regional High School District. Classes are held at WPHS for pupils in grades 9 through 12. There are around 700 pupils and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14:1. The gender division is 51 percent female and 49 percent male. State assessments show 94 percent of pupils are proficient in English and 87 percent are proficient in Mathematics. The graduation rate is 97 percent and the College Readiness Index is 41.4. To graduate from WPHS, pupils must have a minimum of 140 credits in the mandatory…

the school to promote and deliver high standards of educational achievement by setting appropriate and realistic targets. They are responsible for ensuring that the national curriculum is delivered in a broad and balanced way and that targets for pupils are achieved. Governors have the main responsibility for managing a school`s finances and to ensure that any spending decisions are in keeping with the schools budget. OFSTED now assess the overall effectiveness of a school governing body as part…

management policy helps create an effective learning environment for young children. A behaviour management policy is a policy that is placed which focuses on actions for schools to take to make sure that pupils develop positive altruistic behavior and are able to deal successfully with unsuitable pupil behavior. “Ethos can be defined as the ‘atmosphere’ which develops in a setting as the result of the social interactions (e.g. the way people show respect to others etc.) between the…

outcome of formative and summative assessments, teachers need to consider the individual needs of their children within their planning and create resources to meet their needs. Planning that considers the needs and interests of the pupils are ideal for increasing pupil engagement. The pedagogic principle of personalising learning involves teachers making direct links to learning within the classroom and to the outside of the classroom (Berliner, 2011). I, therefore, consider personalised…

The teacher is also able to simplify the words to make the story more understandable for the pupils, for instance it can be used “quickly” instead of “in a flash” or “ate” instead of “had been eating” (Andrew Wright, 2008). The goal is to make the story understandable for children but not to simplify every word and the whole story. The teacher has to make sure that the story is one step beyond the pupils’ level so that they can learn something from…

teacher draws information from the class, elaborates and generalises it, and produces a synthesis’ (141). However, creating a system whereby pupils became active participants in their learning coupled with the transformation in teaching styles in…

We have come to an end of an era as the old ICT Curriculum is replaced by a more up-to-date Computing Curriculum Programme of Study (PoS) that will enhance the learning of the pupils and prepare them for the “digital world” we live in. According to Education Secretary Michael Gove, the current ICT curriculum has not been able to equip and prepare the children to the “new world” and that there is a need to “develop skills for the 21st century” to eradicate the skills deficiency in the job market…