Friday, April 19, 2024

Could you improve your school, if they’d just listen? Then make it happen, help...

Calling all educators who want change! Are you a teacher, teaching assistant, senior leader, head teacher or training to be one? If so, then surely you must...

State of Education Survey Report 2017

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It’s easy to say easy

Since my first year as a teacher, I’ve been working primarily with small target groups of low ability students, many of whom have special...

Is now really the time for grammar schools?

By Joseph Poppy   To expand or not to expand? That is the question the Department for Education is currently unable to answer. Plans for a £200...

Ofsted Behind on Their Follow-ups

By Joseph Poppy   Ofsted, that big foreboding force, are usually the ones criticising others for being behind on their work, or not providing the necessary...

Teacher Crisis Deepens

By Joseph Poppy   Schools, I’m sure we all agree, are not much use if they don’t have teachers. Official figures show that teaching vacancies have...

Teacher Training and Tiredness

As a PGCE student, you are prepared for every type of teaching eventuality; from behaviour management, collecting evidence in order to meet Teaching Standards,...
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My Life in Learning Support: Working with SEN Children

It’s a Monday morning and the class are reading Macbeth. The students are all sat in rows as one reads out a line. One...
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How to Discuss Sensitive Topics at School

We live in a world that is overwhelming for many young people and this can often lead to students asking difficult questions. It is...
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#SATshambles: The SATs Exam Scandal

Over the last week, hundreds have fled to Twitter in outrage of marking discrepancies in SATs tests under the hashtag #SATsshambles. The exam board,...