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By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
It is a given that pupils achieve more when they are involved with their learning. Ensuring genuine engagement is, though, a tricky job for teachers to achieve. We want them to give us their feedback, but their years in education have been about receiving, not giving. Pupils like to please...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
Nearly fifty independent schools closed in the last academic year. Many others are struggling. It is not a good time to be a teacher in the independent sector. For a short period, I taught in a place on the verge of closure, an average sized privately-owned Prep school based in the East...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
Every school has them; the tickers, the flickers, the essay writers and the deadline fighters. Marking; the bane of teacher’s lives. Would it be that there was a form of assessment that was less time consuming, but also accurate and – importantly – useful. Perhaps there is some good news,...
By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020
If you are an educator, you know every year in your classroom you will have all types of learning levels present in your students. You will have the students that are bright enough they could almost teach the class. There will be the students that consistently turn in average work, nothing less,...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Let’s be honest, expecting teachers to proclaim their love and affection for Ofsted is a bit like thinking turkeys would vote for Christmas. It’s never going to happen, being realistic. However, it would seem that what little begrudging respect that may have existed within the teaching...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
For most teachers up and down the country right now the garden is rosy and the mood is positive. Okay, that’s not strictly true. We should not forget that for some teachers the start of term will be anything but the above. If the practicalities of funding cuts or the aftermath of disappointing...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Grouping classes by prior attainment and ability is standard practice in most secondary schools. Many teachers will have plenty of experience of teaching classes that are set in this way, especially in core subjects. Of course, the question of whether this type of setting is the best way to...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Although nothing has been confirmed as yet, it’s fair to say that we have now entered a period of unofficial General Election campaigning. And with the new Prime Minister intent on asserting his domestic agenda, accusations of electioneering and election gimmickry have been flying around the...
By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020
Never has the topic of bullying in schools been more focused on in history than right now at this moment. However, it appears that bullying has never been more prevalent in history either than right at this moment. There are so many more avenues now where students can seek out and bully other...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
Teaching can be a lonely job. Which is surprising, given that we spend most of our working day in contact with others. But where teaching is unusually stressful is that we work in periods of high intensity, followed by spells of relative calm. That is tiring and can lead us to dwell on problems...
