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…your next step could set your future career’s direction. Whether you got here with a teaching degree or by the assessment-only route with a degree in another subject, it must feel great to know you’ve made it this far… You’ve achieved Qualified Teacher Status! The world of careers in education is now, as they say, […]
What can we do about the SEN & SEND teacher shortage? As we leave behind what’s already being called the second ‘winter of discontent’, the coming spring offers little prospect of a thaw in relations between the government and the teaching unions. Of course, the dispute isn’t just about money and teachers’ loss of around […]
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 pupils learnt their times tables by arranging themselves […]
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 aims to mitigate chronically large drop-out […]
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. Yvonne Williams is head of English […]