7 Time Management Tips For Busy Teaching Professionals Two 2021 Pearson silver award winners Reema Reid, headteacher at Hollydale Primary School in Southwark, and Aashna Jethmalani, a science teacher at Haileybury Turnford, a secondary school in Waltham Cross, offer some top tips for busy teaching professionals to manage their time effectively. 1. Prioritise – decide…
What are the best ways to support Early Career Teachers? Teachers often work long hours and feel under pressure, making teacher retention an all-too-common issue. Even long before the Covid-19 pandemic, school standards minister Nick Gibb revealed in 2016, in response to a parliamentary question, that between 2012 and 2017 on average 30 percent of…
The Push for Digital Transformation in Schools The Covid-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for change for many organisations, and schools haven’t been left out of the push it has created for digital transformation and online learning. Although now over, school closures “drove multi-generational digital upskilling in schools. A study published on 26th April 2021…
Building teachers’ skills: the importance of continuing professional development Teachers in England undertake less continuing professional development (CPD) overall and are less likely to engage in subject-specific CPD than those in most other high performing countries. This finding was reported in Developing great subject teaching, a report produced in 2018 by Wellcome, the Centre for…
The Role of Creativity and Innovation in Teaching Innovative teacher Lucy Bate, of Delamere Academy in Tarporley, Cheshire, found a creative way of teaching her students their times tables. As a Key Stage 2 teacher she has been taking her classes outside and using a drone “to capture the imagination of her maths pupils.” The…
Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) With children back at school, teachers and support staff are rightly focusing on helping students to catch up on the work they may have missed during lockdown. But an important balance must be struck to ensure the needs of students with special educational needs and disabilities…
The Government’s Early Career Framework reforms. What is the difference between NQT and ECT – and what do these changes mean for you? First of all, it is important to point out that the reforms due to take effect in September this year are an extension of the government’s long-standing teacher recruitment and retention strategy, which…
Profile: Kirsty Gaythwaite – Goodwin Academy Kirsty Gaythwaite is a maths teacher at Goodwin Academy, a mixed secondary school in Deal, Kent. In 2020, she won a gold prize in the national teaching awards for outstanding new teacher of the year. She talked to Teach Now. Teach Now: How did you get into teaching? Kirsty…
Teaching Twins and Multiples: A Teacher’s Guide (An Interview with Leonie Huie BEM) Schools are predominantly set up to teach children born in different years. With twins and multiples, it can become a challenge to ensure their needs are considered and that they are included. This extends to how teachers and schools communicate with them…
Managing Teacher Recruitment, Training and Retention With many schools, teaching unions and teachers expressing concerns about how safe the classroom is – despite reassurance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), an article by Yvonne Williams in the Times Educational Supplement (TES), asks how many teachers have decided to quit their profession. …
