I shudder, thinking back to my differentiation for EAL students at the start. I Google translated the whole PowerPoint, brimming with pride at my achievement. It was sadly, as the kids would say, an epic fail. It didn't make sense. The students were…
Every pupil in England will be expected to have memorised their times tables before leaving primary school, under new government plans, reports the BBC.
These will also see new tests of multiplication skills at the age of 11.
The checks will be pi…
Workload and Bullying Main Reasons for Teachers Leaving the Profession
A survey and interviews commissioned by UKEdChat.Com has revealed the main reasons why teachers are leaving the profession, and the careers they move onto once they have made th…
So, I have been asked by a few people to provide a further update to the 'worklife balance' issue. As many of you will now know, when I started my first headship (the one I'm currently in) just over two years ago, I started my first Inset day by te…
ALL teaching is very demanding & time consuming, but the challenges of a primary teacher and a secondary teacher very different. This tongue-in-cheek article celebrating the different cultures of primary and secondary schools, and celebrates the dif…
As a teacher, how do you react when one student (or a small minority) dominate discussion and class debate? Do you step in to include the rest of the group or just let the one-sided rhetoric run its natural course? If you intervene, what is the usua…
This term I have mostly been getting myself in a pickle about measuring student progress. I want to do it with integrity, reliability and validity but I wonder whether all three of these are possible. When considering student progress, I have been i…
I have not only been looking at how I teach new topics but also those which I feel confident in delivering.
Coincidentally last week, I had the privilege of visiting another school which gave me the opportunity to observe an outstanding practitione…
And there goes another year. Where does the time go? New Years bring new hope, new beginnings, new intentions, but when you are a teacher, you quickly realise that the same stuff happens over and over again, with the same daily challenges presenting…