How To Streamline Your Marking and Be a More Productive Teacher
Martine Ellis hosts a popular education podcast called The Teaching Space. She is also a teacher educator and Google Certified Trainer based in Guernsey. This...
How to Plan a Lesson
Over my next few posts I'm going to offer some (hopefully) helpful advice on teaching. I know some of you may not have taught...
Six tips for more effective PowerPoint presentations
Creating an effective PowerPoint presentation for a lesson should be neither an incredibly time-consuming task nor one that you complete quickly without any thought....
How To Write a Teaching Cover Letter That Stands Out
So you’ve created a stellar teaching CV and now it’s time to pen a stand-out cover letter. But where to start? Cover letters are...
The qualities of a tip-top teacher
Teachers, what would we do without them? Often we don’t understand the vitalness of these exceptional human beings until we are adults...
How to Manage Behaviour
Now this is by no means a be-all-and-end-all list and I would hugely recommend purchasing Sue Cowley's Getting the Buggers to Behave but I do hope...
7 Ways To Brush Up Your Teacher CV
When schools are looking for new teachers, they’re looking for someone with passion and commitment, someone dedicated to the profession, especially amongst the current...
3 Go-Home-Happy Strategies When You’ve Had a Bad Day
Bad days happen. I wish I could promise you that you won’t have a bad day, but I can’t. There will be those days...
Why I Love Teaching
Teaching. It's a bit of a funny job really. You get berated publicly for both working too much and working too little (I never...
How to survive the stress of exam season
As exam season looms in the not so distant future and our fun filled bank holiday break is now fading to...