The Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies (OASIS) database makes research into language related topics openly available and easily accessible to anyone who might be interested. Teachers can search for the latest research on a wide range of areas of relevance to the languages classroom.
Resources
Shared Resource: Nature education in secondary schools
Discover resources on nature education in secondary schools, highlighting its importance and how schools can engage with nature through research and practice.
Shared Resource: The NESTL Toolkit
The Neurodivergent Education for Students, Teaching & Learning (NESTL) toolkit, co-developed with neurodivergent students and educators, provides suggestions, case studies, and resources to support inclusive education for neurodivergent learners.
British Bangladeshi and Pakistani Communities: Illuminating Pathways to Oxford and Cambridge
This resource pack was compiled to support the project’s community-facing work, bringing together outreach programmes, student societies, and access organisations that can help British Bangladeshi and Pakistani students find their own paths to Oxford, Cambridge, and other leading universities.
Petro-Pedagogy in the Classroom: Recognising & Responding
This resource acts as a guide for educators following a webinar into understanding and resisting the fossil fuel industry in the science and geography curriculum. The resource is compiled from webinar resources, activities, and shared links. All links were correct at time of publication.
Shared Resource: Canon in Colour
A set of digital resources that explore how empire, history, and culture have shaped 19th century canonical works, and what this means for how we teach them today.
Shared Resource: Confident Questioner’s Guide
This guide, produced by the charity Sense About Science, with input from Hamish Chalmers at the Department, provides key questions that teachers and other education stakeholders should ask when assessing claims about new educational initiatives.
Supporting oral language development in Early Years education
A conceptual framework of oral language support, and a collection of resources on current research and audit tools that measure the quality of language support.
Marking and Mark Schemes
Resources on the importance of marking reliability, problems in producing it and ways of making assessment more reliable, including through good mark scheme design.
Understanding Formative Assessment & Giving Good Feedback
Resources on the importance of formative assessment and how to give students good feedback.
Future-Oriented Learning for Inclusive Science Education
Resources for science teachers and secondary pupils to support lessons about timely and pressing issues related to science and society.