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The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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Six opportunities to develop your teaching and leading with the new specialist NPQs
Three new specialist national professional qualifications (NPQs) have been created to help teachers develop different aspects of their practice in teaching and leadership. These are:
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Six ways NQTs and mentors will get quality support from the early career framework
The Department for Education’s (DfE) early career framework (ECF) entitles teachers in the first two years of their career to thorough support and mentoring during their induction, but there’s much more to the ECF than that.
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Become an Ambition Institute trustee
Ambition Institute are looking for trustees to help us become the team we need to be. Read more about the role and how you can apply.
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Using prior knowledge to tackle memory retention and reduce cognitive load
Sabrina Castro unpacks how insights from her Master’s in Expert Teaching have helped to maximise pupil learning, such as using prior knowledge to reduce cognitive load.
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The what, why, how, where and who of teaching school hubs
We break down everything you need to know about the DfE's teaching school hubs announcement, including what they are, where they are, and why they're here.
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The inspirational women making waves in education
As the 2019 School Workforce Census shows, three out of every four teachers are women. Here, two of the participants on our Teacher Educator Fellows programme share their incredible stories with us for International Women's Day 2021.
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World Book Day 2021: What’s on our reading list?
Some of Ambition Institute’s faculty, participants and alumni have let us have a peek at their virtual bookshelves to share what they’ve been reading.
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