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Along with being a primary school teacher and leader, blogging is where this all started for Aidan. If it wasn't for his passion for writing and sharing his learning and experiences, he wouldn't be working as an education consultant with schools across the country today. Shared best practice should be available to all and here on the Aidan Severs Consulting blog you can get ideas for making a difference in your own school. The blog is also a great place to learn exactly the kind of work that Aidan can partner with your school on.
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Greater Depth: More Than Harder Tasks
Children working at greater depth need a challenge but there is more to it than preparing some more difficult tasks for them...
Aidan Severs
Sep 11, 20233 min read
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How I Work With Businesses On Their Education Outreach
As an education consultant, one of my roles is to help businesses like yours to develop education curricula to improve your outreach...
Aidan Severs
Apr 9, 20233 min read
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Brand New SATs Arithmetic Practice Resource: Calculating with Fractions - Addition (+ Free Sample!)
Breaking down the objective of 'adding with fractions' into 35 bite-sized one-pagers with worked examples, explanations & practice questions
Aidan Severs
Mar 4, 20232 min read
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Using Knowledge Organisers In Primary
What are Knowledge Organisers? A place where all the selected key/core knowledge for any given unit of work in any subject is organised...
Aidan Severs
Aug 15, 20223 min read
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Your Greatest Gift to the Next Teacher? By Russell Pearson (Dynamic Deputies)
Russell Pearson of the Dynamic Deputies suggests that there are things children should know and be able to do before they move year group
Aidan Severs
Jun 20, 20225 min read
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8 Scaffolding Strategies: a ‘Q & A’ blog - By Russell Pearson (Dynamic Deputies)
Russell Pearson, of The Dynamic Deputies, responds to questions about the scaffolding episode of their podcast.
Aidan Severs
May 24, 20226 min read
1,164 views
The Right(est) Way To Teach Spelling (part 4)
If you have not yet read the rest of the parts of this series, click here to catch up: https://www.aidansevers.com/blog/tags/spelling...
Aidan Severs
Jan 25, 20226 min read
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Thoughtful Questioning: Why Cold Call Is Not Enough
Cold Calling is the name given to the practice of asking a question and then selecting a child to answer. The theory is that it causes...
Aidan Severs
Dec 16, 20217 min read
1,168 views
Forensic Assessment
As teachers we are all too familiar with the concept of assessment and its importance. We know that without assessment there is no...
Aidan Severs
Dec 15, 20216 min read
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Beware The Reverse-Engineered Curriculum (or The Potential Pitfalls Of Retrieval Practice)
Aren't Knowledge Organisers brilliant? Isn't Retrieval Practice just the bees knees? As for Powerful Knowledge... sigh - the stuff dreams...
Aidan Severs
Dec 14, 20214 min read
391 views
Article Archive - Aidan Severs Consulting
Here you can find a collected list of most of the articles I (Aidan Severs) have written for other outlets, including TES, Teach Primary...
Aidan Severs
Dec 14, 20214 min read
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What Should Adults Be Doing When Children Are Working?
Years ago I was told that I should stop buzzing around the room so much and that I should settle down and spend more time with groups –...
Aidan Severs
Dec 13, 202111 min read
580 views
Ditch The Lesson Plans; Try Learning Sequences
This article was first published in edited form in Issue 8 of HWRK Magazine . It's worth a look at that version too as it is presented...
Aidan Severs
Nov 30, 20216 min read
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Flexible Lesson Design: A Model for Responsiveness and the Release of Responsibility
Flexible lesson design can often be difficult to grasp - let's face it, 30 children all with their own needs with only one or two members...
Aidan Severs
Nov 30, 20214 min read
350 views
Greater Depth: General Principles Of Challenge For Higher Prior Attaining Pupils
6 general principles to consider when thinking about how to challenge higher prior attaining pupils...
Aidan Severs
Nov 29, 202110 min read
5,165 views
The Right(est) Way To Teach Spelling (part 3)
I initially thought part 3 of this blog series would be an exploration of the linguistically explicit instructional techniques that...
Aidan Severs
Nov 17, 20216 min read
802 views
No-Quiz Retrieval Practice Techniques
Retrieval practice is not about regurgitating facts without any understanding of meaning or context.
Aidan Severs
Nov 16, 20216 min read
1,808 views
Using Mnemonics For Retrieval Practice
What are mnemonics? Well, according to Wikipedia it is 'is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval...
Aidan Severs
Nov 16, 20215 min read
504 views
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