Stephen Lockyer is a teacher, writer and speaker. He has taught for 25 years in a variety of settings, and from Year 1 to Year 8, with a range of roles from Trust Enrichment Lead to Deputy Head. He is passionate about Primary teaching, and has spoken at Google UK, for TEDxEdu, Primary Rocks and ResearchEd. He writes for Schools Week, presents occasionally for Teacher Talk Radio, and is a prolific writer, with more than ten educational book titles. In his spare time, he explores the outdoors with his family and creates puzzles and escape room games.
researchED is an educator-led organisation with the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice. This accessible and punchy series, overseen by founder Tom Bennett, tackles the most important topics in education, with a range of experienced contributors exploring the latest evidence and research and how it can apply in a variety of classroom settings. Literacy is one of the most powerful and transformative learning tools: making changes and improvements in Literacy will have a direct impact on your work, your learning and your aspirations across all subjects in the curriculum. In this book, Stephen Lockyer brings together contributions from expert writers, including Clare Sealy, Emma Stokes, Neil Almond and Andrew Percival, to show how making tiny, incremental changes with consistency and genuine purpose can have a big effect on your students, their literacy, and their learning. Each chapter has an abundance of ideas to take into your classroom and have a direct impact on the pupils.