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Ruth Powley
Ruth Powley has been teaching for more than 25 years in a variety of roles including head of department, senior leader and senior leader consultant. She is currently the deputy headteacher at Wilmslow High School in Cheshire.
Ruth is passionately committed to enabling the teaching profession to reclaim its pedagogy.
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Marking can be the bane of a teacher’s life. Reverse the slide and keep your workload under control with five strategies to cut your marking time in half
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Write a more able or gifted and talented policy for your school using our downloadable template, to best teach, support and challenge more able pupils
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Teaching is about more than just lessons – it’s about planning learning. Ruth Powley shows how teachers can use medium term planning to ensure long-term, permanent learning
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In a more linear, content-packed curriculum, memory skills are more important than ever. In this webinar Ruth Powley looks beyond rote-learning to effective memory strategies that save time and enhance understanding
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What does research tell us about effective teaching? Put theory into practice with these five ways to draw on educational research
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Not all more able students are committed and hardworking! Ruth Powley shares strategies used in her school to engage underachieving boys
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Plan for fluent and permanent learning. Download a template of the mastery lesson plan to use as a basis for guiding your pupils to subject mastery
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What makes effective teaching? Ruth Powley summarises the latest research and provides classroom strategies and a lesson plan to put it into practice
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Exam results analysis should identify gaps in performance to help teachers, middle and senior leaders close them. This template gives you the right questions to ask of your data
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For many schools challenging the more able is still an area of weakness. Read our summary of Ofsted’s recommendations and download and use the action plan