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Festival of Education 2016, Day 1 – Bremner Steps In Rory Bremner makes a good impression, Daisy Christoloudou takes issue with Assessment for Learning and Jarlath O’Brian decries 'fake inclusion' in the first of several reports by Helen Mulley from this year's Festival of Education...

UNISON Survey Finds School Support Staff Having To Deal With Rising Violence And Abuse More than half of TAs responding to survey report experiencing physical violence from pupils and parents over the past year

Anyone For Tennis? – Get Set For Wimbledon With These 6 Tennis Resources For Schools As the renowned lawn tennis competition gears up, here's a selection of resources to get your pupils into backhanding, volleying and smashing spirit...

Ever increasing circles – What the spiral curriculum can do for your students In the first of a new series looking at different teaching and curricular styles, Michael McGarvey considers the Spiral Curriculum...

Mind Your Language – 7 Points To Remember When Supporting Early Learners With EAL There is much that early years settings must consider when supporting children and families with EAL, says Kathy Brodie...

Systems Management – What Does It Take To Run A Successful Computing Department? Just taken over your school's computing department? Terry Freedman shares his top 10 tips for ensuring success from the start...

Sara Pascoe’s School Days: “Miss Banks Said We Shouldn’t Laugh At Other People In A Cruel Way” Comedian Sara Pascoe recalls an early lesson in telling jokes – and why, despite having no religion herself, "We should fight to protect the teaching of RE in schools"...

Who Will You Nominate In The Technology and Innovation Awards 2016? Let us know which teacher and school has inspired you most over the past year, and they could win some fantastic prizes courtesy of LEGO® Education...

How To Deal With Stress In Leadership Former headteacher James Hilton ignored the warning signs of work-related stress until it was too late. Now he helps education professionals recognise and overcome the symptoms...

Hear Me Roar – Using Outdoor Learning To Teach Resilience Are reserves of grit and resilience running low in the classroom? It’s time your class took a walk on the wild side, discovers Anna Blewett...

How forest school lessons can help autistic learners The forest school philosophy has something to offer all young people, says Gordon Cairns – but for those with an autism spectrum disorder, the impact can be especially dramatic...

Ensuring Effective Staff Retention and Succession Planning – Checklist for school leadership Checklist for senior leadership across all key stages to assess the effectiveness of a school’s existing staff retention and succession planning. For more information, visit blueskyeducation.co.uk

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Shading Graphical Linear Inequalities by Locating Mystery Pairs of Coordinates From this page you can download the ‘What’s the Point?’ lesson plan originally published in Teach Secondary issue 1.3 ‘What’s the Point?’ teaches shading graphical inequalities, but not as a sequence of instructions to follow, as it is often done. Instead, asking learners to find a ‘mystery point’ can bring the process to life… For […]

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Trans children – How teachers and schools can support pupils With the rapid rise in gender dysphoria referrals to the NHS among young people, it's time schools become more aware about the issues involved. Let's make a change...

Best ‘Unhelpful High School Teacher’ memes We all know one. You undoubtedly had one. Some of you probably even work with one. Just please say you're not one...

Don’t Be Fooled By The DfE’s U-Turn On Academisation The government's latest White Paper will still see children’s education sold out to corporate restructuring

Sew what? – Why textiles lessons need to be brought into the 21st Century If you think there's no place for needlework in a 21st-century curriculum, you're seriously underestimating the importance of textiles, argues Heidi Ambrose-Brown...

Ofsted Taskforce Finds Over 100 Schools Suspected To Be Operating Illegally Letter from Sir Michael Wilshaw to Nicky Morgan expresses concerns over 'harm and indoctrination' risks of unregistered schools – and points to home education laws as possible factor in their growth

British Humanist Association Launches Website For Pupils Attending Faith Schools 'Faith Schoolers Anonymous' pitched as blogging platform and source of support for pupil whistleblowers

High Court Rules Against Local Authority’s Term-time Absence Fine Court's ruling backs parent who refused to pay £120 fine for taking daughter on term-time family holiday to Disney World

Check Mate – Reduce Your Workload And Stress Levels With Checklists 'Box-ticking exercises' are typically the bane of many a teacher’s day – but as Harry Fletcher-Wood explains, a good checklist is the best friend a teacher can have...

Teach Your Students How To Speed Read Fast, efficient reading skills can give any student an advantage, says Alison Davies – and these practical activities will help develop them...

They’re Great – But Occasionally, I’d like It Not To Be ALL About The Children… "At certain points, I want nothing more than a break from the wee little tie-wearing cyclones..."

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Examine the Effects that Margins of Error Have on Time, Distance and Estimation From this page you can download the ‘Hopping Along’ lesson plan originally published in Teach Secondary issue 5.4 and accompanying task sheet ‘Hopping Along’ sees students examine the effect that margins of error can have on otherwise seemingly clear results. Starting with the seemingly clear result of a race, students look at how multiple inaccuracies […]

The A to Z of Shakespeare resources Delve into the Bard's stories, characters and locations, with this alphabetised selection of classroom materials from the BBC...

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