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Protect Students from Extremism by Taking a Positive Approach to Prevent Shielding young people from the influence and impact of extremism can be an inspiring experience, says Joe McElroy – with the right expert support...

Supply Teacher Feedback Form A great little form for either supply teachers or teachers preparing for their cover. It has simple headings that help teachers pick out the key information needed for a good handover between professionals, so that everyone knows what is meant to be happening and what has happened. The Feedback Form includes: Emma Middlemiss has over […]

Teachers, Try to Manage your Workload or you Will Burn Out There’s always something else to be done in teaching, says our anonymous correspondent – but if you try and do it all yourself, you’ll be heading for a fall

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...

What to do After a Failed Ofsted Inspection A failed inspection should represent the first step in a journey of improvement, says Ruth Sparkes – and that’s the message you need to share

The Government’s Refusal to Fund Free Sanitary Products for School Pupils is Shameful This decision demonstrates a lack of empathy and compassion, says Fiona Millar...

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Could You be a Happier, Healthier School? With Active Wellbeing Week just around the corner, here’s your chance to give yourself and your colleagues a much-needed mental and physical boost. A well-rounded health and wellbeing policy can achieve many things, from encouraging active lifestyles that help people to achieve their personal goals to supporting employees in striking a healthy work-life balance. Beyond […]

No One Should Have to Choose Between Teaching and Parenthood It's hard enough keeping teachers in the profession as it is right now, so don't make them pick between school and home life, says Tom Starkey

5 Ways to Make Classroom Maths Relevant to Secondary Students "When will I ever use this in life?" – Teachers are used questions like this, but these ideas from Christine Norledge will help pupils understand the relevance of mathematics before they've even asked...

Sick of EBacc? Could the International Baccalaureate Give Your Students a More-Rounded Education? Student agency at the core of IB’s new primary programme, says Dr Peter Fidczuk...

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...

Too Many School Leavers Still Don’t Have the Literacy Skills Needed to Thrive One in eight disadvantaged students don’t own a single book, says Jonathan Douglas – so what are we going to do about it?

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

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