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Why Secondary Students Need to Read Strong Female Characters in Literature Gender shouldn’t be a barrier to leadership opportunities, says Sally Green – and powerful female characters in literature can help get that message across...

Having ADHD Makes Me a Better Teacher Primary teacher David Keyte was in denial about his diagnosis until he began working with a pupil with the same condition

Education is About so Much More than Merely Preparing Young People for Employment “In praise of useless knowledge” – Top grades are not the benchmark of a good education, so let’s encourage learning for its own sake, insists Dr Shirley Lawes...

Looking for Great Early Years CPD? Think Outside the Box Developing, retaining and motivating staff can be difficult, so when it comes to professional development it’s worth broadening your horizons…

“We Must Take Part in Polarised Debates” – The Big Takeaway from the Festival of Education The call at this year's event to break down barriers between entrenched positions – such as knowledge vs skills and progressive vs traditional – is a refreshing one, says Harley Richardson

What exactly is a ‘reasonable’ teacher workload? Read one city’s practical solution to the problem of excessive teacher workloads...

Contraception and STIs lesson plan

STI lesson – Get the message across about contraception and STIs Discussing contraception and STIs is never easy – but these ideas should help get the message across. Parents talk about ‘having that difficult conversation’ and it is evident that some feel extremely uncomfortable about speaking with their offspring about sex and any related associations. It is not necessarily that teachers feel any more at ease […]

Will a Year’s Sabbatical Really Stop Teachers Leaving the Profession? A year’s sabbatical once you’ve served a decade is all very well, but a quarter of teachers don’t even make it to five years

How to be a Whistleblower Without Risking Your Career So you’ve got evidence of serious wrongdoing in your school – but can you expose it without risking your own livelihood? Absolutely, discovers Anna Blewett...

Simultaneous Equations and Graphs Lesson for KS3 and KS4 Maths This full lesson introduces solving simultaneous equations using graphical methods. The starter is a kinaesthetic activity where pupils order themselves according to the value of the expressions they are holding (answers and values to substitute are shown on the board). For the main activity they pick out graphs to find pairs of solutions to (at […]

How Can you get Students to be More Open to Feedback? We all have pupils who switch off or don't take kindly to academic advice, so how do you get them to listen? Andy Griffith has some ideas...

15 of the Best Education Blog Posts you Should be Reading Today We've rounded up our most popular blog posts on Teachwire and put them all in one place, so if you happened to miss any of them make sure to give them a read...

Peer Observations Make us all Better Teachers It's easy to lose sight of good teaching practices in the maelstrom of the school year, but making time to watch your peers can help all of us be the best educators we can be, says Dan Draper...

Why ‘SEN Resources’ Can Help Everyone Schools can both boost their inclusivity and reduce their expenses by using SEN resources with the whole class, says Cleo Fatoorehchi

New GCSE Grades and Exam Pressures for Teachers and Students – Why this Summer Will be no Holiday "It is hard enough being a teenager without seeing Mr Chips melting down in front of you," As HOD, Jonathan Peel is trying to help ease the strain on both students and staff during exams...

EdTech Can Improve Teaching and Learning, But More Strategic Thinking is Needed Advocates of EdTech see it as the future of education, but forcing it on schools before everyone is on board will just disenfranchise some teachers. We need a smarter way to implement it, says Gary Spracklen...

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...

Using Robots to Help Absent Children to Attend Class Remotely John Galloway finds out how a Norwegian startup is giving children with long-term medical conditions a much-needed pair of eyes and ears in the classroom

Make Sure Your School is Using Teaching Assistants Effectively With research painting a mixed picture of how effective TAs are in the classroom, schools need to be clear as to what their role should be, says Kate Sarginson…

Why this Special School has an Unbroken Record of University Entries for its Leavers Callum Fauser journeys to the East Anglian countryside and sees how a special school with an unbroken record of university entries for its leavers goes about things a little differently…

Make Sure Your School’s Practice is Dyslexia-Friendly Liz Horobin highlights what two schools have done to make dyslexia-friendly practice central to how they operate

School Policy Must Focus More on Students’ Personal Circumstances Personal circumstances have a far greater impact on academic outcomes than schooling – so why do we persist in focusing policy development on the latter, asks Fiona Millar

Despite Great Pressures in Education There’s Still Plenty to Celebrate about what Classroom Teachers are Doing No matter what is piled on the profession, there’s still plenty to be joyful about with life at the chalkface, if we remember to look for it, says Vic Goddard – #JustLetMeTeach

The Minutes from your School’s Last Healthy Eating Policy Meeting “Parents would start trebucheting £1.99 two-piece meals over the fence in protest” – Tom Starkey takes a tongue-in-cheek look at implementing healthy eating standards in schools...

Advanced Trigonometry for KS3 and GCSE Maths – 3D Trigonometry, Pythagoras and Sine/Cosine Rules This resource covers 3D Trigonometry, 3D Pythagoras, angles between a line and a plane, angles between two planes and sine/cosine rules. KS3 Maths Curriculum Area Geometry and measures Use the properties of faces, surfaces, edges and vertices of cubes, cuboids, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres to solve problems in 3-D. Dr Frost is a […]

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