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By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
It is absolutely normal to have difficult colleagues in staff room. In a perfect world, the school staff room would be a place of harmony and support. Ideally, in any school its staff will embrace a shared vision and will pull together in the same direction at all times. But, that’s the ideal...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
The most significant step on the path to the four lettered door is the one that takes us to senior leadership. As the challenge (and there’s a euphemistic word if there was one) of facing the Chair of Governors loomed, it was those experiences of senior leadership that kept me sane. ...
By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020
How do we increase pupil engagement when attention spans appear to be getting shorter every year? Whether you teach elementary or high school, you face the same problems as other educators all over the world. In this day and age, with all of the technology and devices we carry on ourselves at all...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
The reasons why teachers leave the profession are manifold, and the numbers are worrying. With recruitment already falling short of demand and pupil numbers growing (there will be 3 million secondary aged pupils by 2025), a crisis is just around the corner. In fact, it has probably...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Coding is now a part of the compulsory curriculum in the UK, from age 5 to 14. In some circles, coding is seen as a 21st century skill that has become as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. We often hear that coding skills are considered vital to improve the future employment prospects...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
The latest UCAS Teaching training statistics show that the total number of teacher training applications fell by 4% in July. This is an improvement on the dreadful figures from the previous month, when...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Much has changed in the GCSE exam system over the last few years. It was once a flexible, modular system with coursework/controlled assessment and exams that could be sat at various points in a course. Now it has become an entirely linear model with exams only available at the end of the course....
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
There are plenty of questions and debates around homework. How often should it be set? How much is too much? What benefits does it actually bring? Teachers and parents alike have varied opinions on homework. However, generally speaking, there is a broad consensus. Most can see that...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
The best classroom practitioners know what works, and what doesn’t; they are open to new ideas but have a store of proven teaching techniques that provide the bedrock of their work. These proven ways of working adapt and change over time, with new ideas (that actually succeed) replacing other...
By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020
Back in the day, teachers used to discipline students for bad behavior in couple of different ways. Way in the past, there used to be a bit of corporal punishment for unruly behavior that would consist of a ruler across the knuckles or a spanking with a wooden board. You might think that this...
