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  • Holiday Destinations for Teachers

    By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020

    For those who haven’t already booked, or are already thinking of next year, this blog has some suggestions of holiday destinations ideal for teachers. As I was taking the kids to school this morning, I decided it was time to switch to the summer glasses – the photochromatic ones that make me look...

  • How to prepare for your first teaching post?

    By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020

    Many of you will already have secured your first teaching post.  For others, it is a soon to be climbed mountain.  Over a long career, before I gave it up to take my old man’s gap year, I have been fortunate enough to experience much;  I worked in some capacity or other in more than...

  • How do you teach a subject that is not your specialism?

    By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020

    The chances are that some point in your career you will be teaching a subject that is not your specialism.  You know the sort of chat the curriculum leader initiates – to the History teacher a desperate plea to take, for one year only, Year 8 English.  To the scientist, a sob story about...

  • How to encourage students to ask questions?

    By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020

    Excuse Me Miss, why…? We all want active pupils in our classes but it can be difficult to encourage students to ask questions.  Except during that end of term lesson when we need to get onto google maps to plan our route for the holiday break, and so it is silent reading, colouring or word...

  • How to Achieve and Maintain Work Life Balance as a Teacher?

    By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020

    Once the school year starts, it becomes more difficult to achieve and maintain work life balance. We get so busy with work that we even bring papers home every night for marking or create lesson plans. It is quite easy to let teaching alter your work life balance. My friends know that I am usually...

  • How to be a Favorite Teacher?

    By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020

    All of us can remember our favorite teacher from our childhood. Whether it was an elementary teacher, high school teacher, or college professor, we can recall their name and what made them so perfect for us. It is a bit strange that we can remember our favorite teacher’s name and facts about them...

  • How to make a lesson plan?

    By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020

    Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.  Planning lessons.  What a fuss.  In the old days, we didn’t worry about lesson plan.  We just turned up and delivered.  OK, so the clever ones never quite made the progress they could, and the slow ones went nowhere at all.  But, let’s face...

  • 5 Fantastic Tips for Educators on Managing Workload

    By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020

    While there are some things that you can’t change, such as parents that like to complain, there are ways to manage your workload better. It’s easy for a teacher to feel overwhelmed. It happens often, like every Monday at the beginning of a school week. It doesn’t matter if you teach elementary,...

  • 5 Ways to Handle Troubled Students

    By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020

    As part of my duty at the school, I was unofficially asked, perhaps told, that I would be receiving some of the most troubled students in my classroom. They felt that a strong male influence could be enough to get these kids behaving better. To be honest, sometimes it worked and sometimes it...

  • Best Extracurricular Activities For Students

    By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020

    Extracurricular activities are looked at by colleges as well, but most students do not get involved in them to please higher learning. They enter into the extracurricular activities because they are interested in pursuing basically a hobby that could turn into much more. In addition, they do not...