From ‘The Wasted Years?’ to ‘The Ambitious Years’

I’ve been talking for a while about how we can ramp up expectations at Key Stage 3.

My rationale is that pupils can cope with material above their pay grade, even if they aren’t great readers, as long as we have classrooms characterised by high challenge and low threat.

This is based on three strands of research and here’s the third:

Daniel Willingham on the potential power of narrative to help students understand and remember complex subject matter. Our brains privilege story!

So, my latest project is to create planning units which embed the research. Starting with history in Year 7, I’ve created teaching resources and pupil booklets which have high quality texts at their heart.

I’ll be releasing the first draft on Tuesday 20th May 4-5pm on Myatt & Co. Access with a single annual or group subscription.