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How can we teach sustainability in schools?

Today’s school children will grow into a world facing acute ecological crisis. How can we teach the lasting sustainable practices and mindsets that will help them in the future?

Marketing

What are the characteristics of a great learning environment?

You work hard to create the best possible learning environments. But how can you tell when you’ve got it right? These five signs will tell you if you’re on the right track.

Company News

Partnership announcement: WCBS, leading EdTech providers for Independent and International Schools

Find out how our latest partnership with WCBS will empower learning in schools, post-pandemic

How can you create a great learning environment?

Build classes full of engaged, motivated students with these five tips.

Marketing

Kinteract feature spotlight: reporting

Exam-free assessments put a lot of pressure on teachers. Finding evidence to support grades is a huge workload. But Kinteract’s reporting features could transform this burden into an easy, one-click job. Here’s how.

Looking back over a year in lockdown: insights from Kinteract

This time last year, we were just about getting to grips with lockdown. A year on, we’ve learned a lot. We sat down (remotely!) with Jamie Southerington, Kinteract’s Global Sales Director, to talk about lockdown’s Lessons.

The best online learning resources (and how you can access them)

Emmert Wolf said that “a man is only as good as his tools”. Sure, some might be better at using those tools that others - but without those tools they’re going nowhere.

What makes Kinteract top of the class?

Kinteract is the platform that does it all. Nothing else comes close.

Teachers can now sign up to Kinteract directly! Here’s why you should:

Most online teaching platforms need full institutions to sign up. Not Kinteract. We’re pleased to announce that teachers can now sign up to Kinteract directly.

Here’s why Kinteract is the perfect platform for SEN schools

There is no ‘one-size fits all’ approach to teaching. This is especially true when teaching learners with special educational needs. Those needs are as varied and individual as the learners themselves.

Latest news

Teacher’s jobs are hard enough - here’s how technology can lighten the load

Teachers have been the unsung heroes of 2020. They’ve worked tirelessly to keep education on course during the pandemic. Now, we can give them their hard-earned time back. Here’s how platforms like Kinteract can shoulder the admin burden and enable teachers to focus on what they do best: teaching.

COVID-19

Live Lessons - are they the best way?

UK Education Secretary thinks that remote teaching live should be encouraged. But is he right? 

COVID-19

What lessons can teachers take from 2020?

Looking back on a crazy year, and forward to a strong future. This is as true (if not truer!) for education as it is for everything else. Teachers, schools, and parents have worked amazingly hard, and shown incredible resourcefulness in keeping education going against the odds this year. 

Edtech tips

How can you manage behaviour when teaching online?

Online teaching gives teachers a plethora of innovative new tools - but teaching from behind a screen still isn't the same as teaching in front of a class. How can teachers manage classroom behaviour when the class is remote? 

Case Study

How Kinteract is helping teachers

Teacher’s jobs can be hard enough - but here’s how technology can lighten the load!

Blended learning

Is Zoom suitable for online teaching?

Zoom has been keeping us all connected during global lockdowns throughout the year. But is it a good teaching tool?

Company News

Wishing you all a very Happy Holidays from the Kinteract team

Whether you’re a teacher, a parent, a student, a member of school staff, an independent educator, or anyone else - please have a truly fantastic holiday season.

Edtech tips

How to make your online teaching engaging for students

Online learning platforms are revolutionising the way we teach, but teachers are still the most important factor in education. How can teachers work with edtech to make online learning interesting for students? All over the world, teachers are getting to grips with edtech.

Edtech tips

How KinSport enables sports associations to survive and thrive - online, and on the field!

Is education technology really revolutionising sports training and development? We learned through lockdown that live sports lessons work. Half the country was ‘Joe Wicks-ing’ to Youtube P.E lessons...

Latest news

The benefits of online schooling for students and teachers

Hey, we all heard about the frustrations of "lockdown learning". But that’s only half the story... It’s time to focus on the sheer advantages and opportunities that online schooling and hybrid learning provides.

Latest news

ISC Research: How Kinteract Enables Schools to Rapidly Respond to COVID-19 Challenges

Global Research: How Kinteract Enables Schools to Rapidly Respond to COVID-19 Challenges

Edtech tips

The characteristics of effective learning

From how children learn - to how teachers can enhance the characteristics of effective learning in the classroom.

Edtech tips

The pros of parental engagement in schools

We understand the impact and difference it makes to a child's progress when their parents are involved in the educational journey.

Edtech tips

Fed up with ticking boxes?

Are you fed up of ticking off boxes on your assessment system?

COVID-19

The digital divide and technology in schools

Although the digital divide has been prominent throughout education systems all over the world, the coronavirus pandemic has really elevated the problem. Disadvantaged students have literally been left in the dark, with no way of logging on. And although schools are slowly opening back up, slowly returning to ‘normal’, the digital divide is still ever present.

Latest news

How to encourage independent learning

Although it might be obvious as to what independent learning is, there are a number of nuances that actually make up the process. Independent learning is the process of developing one’s own knowledge, but this doesn’t necessarily mean alone; it could be in groups, but without teacher or educator intervention. Independent learning focuses on an individual taking objectives and reaching them through their own process – placing the responsibility on their shoulders.

Latest news

What is “child-led” learning?

It’s been well documented that younger children learn best through play – but how do we challenge children to lead their own learning journey? Child-led learning has become more and more mainstream in nursery settings throughout the last five years, but what exactly is it and how has it changed the way we teach in early years’ settings?

Platform Features

Class discussions to drive home learning

Kinteract is great for assessment and home-school communications through the parent logins - but it doesn't stop there. As well as being able to set assignments for hand-in online, Kinteract has a class discussion option for observations.

Edtech tips

What types of educational technology suit your teachers?

From the first use of pencil and paper to radio broadcasts and followed by televised education broadcasts - today, the educational technology landscape has changed a great deal.

Latest news

Tailoring your curriculum to your school and pupils

Here at Kinteract HQ, we know the life of a teacher is not a fixed diary. Your curriculum is a living, breathing thing and not just a tick list to be completed and added to a pile of paper. So our platform is totally curriculum agnostic.

Edtech tips

To mark or not to mark?

There are a number of schools who have made massive changes to their marking and feedback policy - most notably to change it to just a feedback policy.

Platform Features

The power of the #hashtag in assessment

If you are an avid social media user then you will understand the power of the #hashtag.

COVID-19

Find out what COVID-19 means for GCSEs, A-levels and more

COVID-19 has changed the way students are graded in 2020 - Kinteract investigates what this means for GCSEs and A Levels.

Edtech tips

Are you happy with your edtech solutions?

Are you happy with your edtech solutions? Will they satisfy Ofsted’s focus next term?

Platform Features

Assessment with a difference - adaptive learning journeys throughout the key stages

Kinteract has been built around the idea of a learning journey - or timeline - that follows a child all the way through every key stage. Achievements are charted along the way as well as next steps and general observations.

COVID-19

What UK educational institutions need to know about staff retention during a pandemic

With schools, colleges and universities across the UK closed for the foreseeable future, educational institutions have had to make big changes to the way they communicate with and educate pupils, students, parents – and staff.

COVID-19

Could this pandemic change the way we educate forever?

Online education shouldn’t replace ‘traditional’, classroom teaching – but the pandemic has illustrated to us that schools are not just there as education providers, but also caregivers, guardians, and food suppliers

COVID-19

How to maintain student wellbeing during a pandemic

Student wellbeing has always been important, but during a pandemic and other difficult times, it can be tough to ensure each and every student is happy and relaxed.

Blended learning

How to successfully plan for the new school year - after lockdown

Planning for the new ‘normal’ has been something teachers, educators, faculties, educational institutions, and leadership teams have been thinking about since March.

Edtech tips

New to online learning? Our complete guide for educational institutions

Distance learning is nothing new, but online teaching and learning for many schools and educational institutions, who normally rely on traditional classroom teaching, isn’t something that comes naturally for all.

Platform Features

Progress isn't always a straight line

As much as any senior leader of a school loves to see a graph showing progress going up and up in a perfectly smooth line, in reality, it doesn’t really work like that if we reflect what happens in classrooms

Company News

Top 10 reasons why online education software is effective for Key Stage 2

An online learning platform provides KS2 students with more interaction with teachers, their peers and with the work they’re completing.

Company News

Ofsted inspections to focus on blended learning & remote education

Ofsted inspections to focus on blended learning & remote education

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