What Pupils Learn When We Show Our Thinking

Schools are well practised at working in challenging contexts and still achieving strong academic outcomes for their pupils. The question many of us continue to grapple with is how we sustain and deepen this success while meeting the needs of pupils with SEND, disadvantage, and a wide range of confidence, motivation and prior attainment. When we strip this question back to its essentials, it almost always leads us to the same place. High quality teaching matters, and at the heart of that teaching sits modelling.