Teacher Retention: The Facts You Need to Know
The UK is struggling with teacher retention during growing numbers of pupil intake and cuts to the education sector. The Government has missed recruitment...
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...
Simple solutions: starting lessons smoothly
Starting lessons smoothly can be challenging. Missing equipment. Latecomers. Excuses for why homework isn’t complete. There are a lot of ways to address this....
Making the Move- UK to International Teaching
TES job alerts.…it can be your best friend, it can be your enemy. Signing up to the daily job alerts was one of the...
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...
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...
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...
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...