Closing the Gap - April 22nd 2016

Now that we have two terms and many school settings' context to draw on,  Friday April 22nd 2016 looks at Closing the Gap.  

The following links, will help with our research... Think also about whether some of this reseach could inform your 3rd and final PGCE assignment, Barriers to Learning. 

Education Endowment Foundation - Through the toolkit - looks at different intervention strategies and gives a measurable impact - link below

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit

Found some other links that may help below

Leadership Reports 

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335739/leadership-for-closing-the-gap-full-report.pdf

Low and middle income families 

https://www.essex.gov.uk/Business-Partners/Partners/Schools/One-to-one-tuition/Documents/Narrowing%20the%20gaps%20from%20data%20to%20impact.pdf

Disadvantaged Pupils

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473974/DFE-RR411_Supporting_the_attainment_of_disadvantaged_pupils.pdf

Pupil Premium 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-pupil-premium-an-update

EAL   

https://eal.britishcouncil.org/teachers/great-ideas-scaffolding-learning

http://www.collaborativelearning.org/

http://www.naldic.org.uk/eal-teaching-and-learning/eal-resources/

http://www.naldic.org.uk/eal-initial-teacher-education/resources/ite-archive-bilingualism/

(particularly useful for the potential academic lag for pupils who speak another language at home or have moved to the country at a young age) 

Gender.... 

http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/8/8311dcsfgender%20what%20works%20bmkpdf.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waLllnBd1Xs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Literacy and Numeracy

http://www.interventionsforliteracy.org.uk/widgets_GregBrooks/What_works_for_children_fourth_ed.pdf

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110202093118/http:/nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/174504

Primary - but a worthwhile read for Secondary too (research carried out via our teaching school alliance) 

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/349288/closing-the-gap-with-the-new-primary-national-curriculum.pdf