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Students Need to See Teachers who are Like Them As a teenager, Matt Pinkett spoke like a geezer to imitate his heroes – as a teacher, he does it to remain himself...

Why Are Men Teaching in Primary Still Viewed with Suspicion? It’s not often spoken about, but there’s an underlying mistrust of men who want to teach KS1 or 2 instead of working in secondary, says Ben King...

Change Students’ Behaviour by Changing the Social Norms of your Classroom Not happy with the prevailing culture in your classroom? With a little understanding about how normative messages work, you can start to change your students’ attitudes, says David Didau...

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Icebreaker games – 5 ideas to help children settle into their new class Spice up your start-of-term routine with these five fun getting-to-know-you games and activities this September...

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7 of the Best Back to School Articles for Behaviour Management Set your classroom standards early and have children stick to them for the whole year with these expert advice articles and videos...

Angel Oak Academy – Meet the school where 11 teachers are doing funded master’s degrees “We don’t do fluffy – we do academic,” says headteacher Catherine Hewitt...

Improve your behaviour management by ‘playing’ a cool and calm character Imagining yourself ‘in role’ can help you to remain collected when behaviour becomes difficult, says John Coxhead...

How to Write a Behaviour Plan (and Where Schools Go Wrong) Do your pupils’ behaviour reports actually serve a practical and constructive purpose? Jarlath O’Brien looks at where schools might be getting them wrong...

Some classroom behaviour management strategies can humiliate children, with long-term consequences Nicole Dempsey looks at how certain classroom strategies can be more humiliating than initially thought, with regretful long-term consequences...

What To Do When Pupil Behaviour Becomes Extreme Tracey Lawrence looks what methods and approaches teachers can draw on when dealing with cases of extreme behaviour

Why do Pupils Become Disengaged, and How Can You Stop It? Adam Riches outlines four key factors why students switch off in lessons, and ways in which you can keep them engaged and enthused about learning

How to Manage a Challenging Parent – The CALM Approach Fight? Flight? Freeze? Don't panic, Steph Caswell has some practical advice to help you through encounters with angry parents

Improving attendance in schools – Why attendance rewards penalise the students they’re designed to help Life is already more of a lottery for some kids than others, says Simon Pearse – and rewarding attendance with raffles just stacks the odds against them even higher...

7 ways to develop high-quality adult:child interactions in your early years setting Knowing when and how best to interact with playing children to boost their learning is one of the hardest skills early educators must master. Kathy Brodie has some pointers…

Your step-by-step behaviour management guide for dealing with a student who just won’t follow instructions “Repeat this instruction as many times as needed – be that irritating dog with a bone”

Open Enrolment Means All Parents Should get the Schools they Want for their Children – So Why, 30 Years Later, is it Still not Happening? With the many ways schools in this country can 'select' types of students, it is perfectly possible to live right next door to a secondary and still not be able to get in

What’s the best behaviour management plan when low-level disruption begins to bubble up? “As the adult within your classroom, you create the atmosphere”...

How We Helped Families who Couldn’t Access Advisory Services When fewer of St Mary Cray Primary Academy’s families were able to get the help they needed, the school stepped in and found a unique solution

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If Schools Really Care about Success for Every Student, a ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Behaviour Policy isn’t the Answer “Inconveniently to some, children have rights” – All schools need to tackle indiscipline but such strict approaches are immoral, unjustified and frankly fraudulent

10 Behaviour Management Tips to Help You Become a Classroom Leader Unlock the door to positive teacher-student relationships with Robin Launder’s no-nonsense advice...

Make it Easy for Parents to Give their Children’s Progress a Boost Being a parent is hard work, so Sue Fisher explains how you can help them leap the hurdles to home learning

6 ways you are sabotaging your own teaching When it comes to classroom management, there are moments when we all unwittingly upend ourselves, says John Dabell…

17 of the funniest festive GIFs for Christmas play season in schools Preparing for your end-of-term show? Party planning for Christmas? Don't worry, we've got all your dos and don'ts GIF-wrapped for you...

Parent Partnerships – It Pays To Get Them Involved Throughout Reception Year If you are quick to interact with parents, you stand a greater chance of being welcomed by them when you offer guidance on supporting children’s learning.

10 ways for SLTs to tackle difficult conversations with parents We’re providing an educational service, and therefore we will receive feedback from our ‘customers’ from time to time. How you deal with that feedback is what matters most

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