Why promoting kindness in the classroom is a must
Kind words make the world go round. In fact, it has been proven that an environment where safety, kindness and understanding is...
Workspace to think
Most of us would agree that a school’s main priority is its students and their education. As a result, we spend countless hours on...
How Schools Can Write Effective Job Descriptions and Attract the Right Staff
We are all aware of the current difficulties in teacher recruitment. We’re in the midst of a teacher shortage with less new trainee teachers...
How to balance your mental health with a hectic teaching schedule
As a teacher, you’re often racing around solving a million and one different problems at once, barely getting a moment for a...
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...
Self-regulation: increasing the profile of teachers
Prior to teaching in England, I completed my teacher training in my hometown in Ontario, Canada. At the end of my teacher-training programme, I...
Making Books Accessible With a Moving Library
Having completed my second year of Primary Teaching in May – I finished the year exhausted but enlightened in equal measure. Though I welcomed...
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...
5 Supply Teacher Wellbeing Tips
Supply teaching can be pretty tough. You spend your week working across different schools, running from classroom to classroom providing cover for classes of...
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...