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Behaviour management – Let’s stop taking sides and restore teachers’ authority Proponents of ‘Warm-Strict' and ‘Trauma-Informed’ behavioural approaches continue to miss the real problem – teachers’ lack of authority...

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Teacher shortage UK – How can we convince our colleagues to stay? Without professional development and strict behaviour standards, don’t be surprised if your colleagues soon depart their posts...

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Ofsted inspection – Let’s unpack the ‘hit squads’ myth Adrian Lyons ponders the accusations that Ofsted are dispatching ‘hit squads’ to rob schools of their hard-earned Outstanding ratings…

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Classroom practice – What single change made you a better teacher? Six educators share their recollections of that one change that did the most to reshape and alter their practice for the better...

Adoption in education – 10 ways to help children feel welcome Never mind heartstring-pulling Christmas adverts, making adopted children feel comfortable can be more complicated than we first thought...

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Social justice – At what point does ‘educating’ become ‘advocating’? Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert makes the case for why schools shouldn’t put their thumbs on the scales of social justice...

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School attendance – Strategies for tackling persistent absence As recent events fuel a range of student attendance issues, Paul Buckland looks at how schools can tackle those absence figures

Mixing classes? – Wait until you read this… "I felt the same feelings of betrayal and sadness my daughter was feeling. We were let down through either incompetence or laziness."

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Form time – Why its focus on pastoral support should be restored The move to make form time less about pastoral support and more about administrative essentials has meant some students are now missing an important part of the day, says Phil Naylor

Independent learning – what should education look like in a modern world? When it comes to intellectual and emotional development in EYFS and KS1, can we have our cake and eat it, too, asks Elizabeth Powell...

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Residential visits – What to plan and prepare before departure Daniel Harvey runs through the list of essential tasks and checks ahead of your school's next residential visit

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School heating – What lessons in cold classrooms mean for students’ behaviour Beyond the obvious budgetary concerns, the sharp rise in heating costs this winter will directly impact upon the behaviours and academic outcomes we see in our classrooms, says Nikki Cunningham-Smith...

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Teacher qualifications – Why do you need a maths GCSE to teach humanities? So, you want to be a humanities teacher? Well, first you’ve got to be able to interpret fractions and percentages as operators, notes an exasperated John Lawson...

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Classroom silence – Why keeping students quiet isn’t always the answer A quiet classroom can often accompany periods of intense focus and learning – but it can also provide your students with a veil to hide behind...

Katya Balen – the Yoto Carnegie winner on the stories we tell ourselves The narratives we construct about ourselves and others inform how we move through the world. The same is true of our pupils...

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Teacher-student relationships – Is it wrong to want to be liked? Seeking approval from students is only a problem if we go about it in the wrong way, maintains Colin Foster…

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Student engagement – Make ‘working hard’ your classroom’s default setting Matt MacGuire runs through the ways in which teachers can cut through students’ propensity for restlessness and normalise the idea that lessons should involve hard work...

Behaviour management – how to make sure your teacher training has impact When it comes to behaviour CPD, the odd INSET workshop just won’t cut it, says Sam Strickland. Here’s what to do instead...

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Trojan Horse affair – “Lies and conspiracies set schools back at least 10 years” Kamal Hanif reflects on his experiences as a school leader on the front lines at the time of the Trojan Horse affair

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Change in leadership – Why a new headteacher can affect your community more than you think In politics, as in education, a change in leadership is never undertaken lightly – but are secondaries doing enough to reassure parents and carers that a new face at the top won’t jeopardise what they like about their school?

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Exclusions in schools – Why they mustn’t be outlawed The decision of one London borough to prevent virtually all forms of permanent exclusion risks leaving schools with fewer options and a drain on staff capacity, argues Dr Stephen Curran...

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EAL students – How to teach them (and what they can teach their peers) Rebecca Leek explains how students with EAL can be taught well by ‘differentiating without differentiating’...

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Adults only – Could your school have a porn problem? Hannah Day examines the phenomenon of ‘playground porn’ – the sharing of sexual content via smartphones on school property – and what staff can do to prevent it…

Group work – Your students are getting on, but are they learning? Students often enjoy working in groups, but as Colin Foster explains, a class doing things together isn’t necessarily learning together…

Unmet needs – are we just excusing bad behaviour? Getting kicked out of school was the wakeup call I needed. Now I’m a teacher and it’s got me questioning our view of ‘unmet needs’...

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