Archive for the ‘Working in Schools’ Category

  You’ve spent a long time training to teach, and years honing and practicing your craft. What a shame if all that hard work were put at risk because of a simple mistake or misunderstanding. Here’s five bits of advice to prevent it ever coming to that…   Keep a Professional Distance from Your Students It’s a sad fact that malicious allegations are becoming very much a part and parcel of school life, and you can never quite be sure who will be the target. When it comes to maintaining a professional distance the problem is rarely what actually happens,

In order to be effective in your role you’re going to have to say ‘no’ to some of the people, some of the time. Otherwise your work-life balance will get caught up in a twisted vortex of increasing demands on your shrinking time. But as we all know, saying ‘no’ can be tricky – especially in an organisation like a school where everyone is under constant pressure. So if you are in the position where you have to have a difficult conversation – here are some things to bear in mind to help keep the discussion professional and productive.

A list of teachers’ ideas for remembering pupils names – this can be a difficult job when you’ve got one, or more, new classes to get to know. There are some great ideas to help you here.

A collection of viewpoints from teachers around the UK about why they have chosen to join, or not join today’s strike action. Please add your voice.

It can be hard not to respond to anger with more anger. Here are some ideas to help you give the calm and measured response that is most likely to see the situation satisfactorily resolved.

If you act confident, you’ll soon feel more confident – here are some ideas to get you started.

Do you support the UK teachers’ strike on June 30th? Please share your views

Email is such an integral part of our day to day lives that you probably haven’t stopped to think about your email writing skills for a long time.  But bearing in mind how many emails we read and write each week whether we’re communicating with students, parents or colleagues it’s worth taking just five minutes to brush up on your email writing skills to ensure that the recipient actually wants to follow through on whatever it might be that you’re asking of them.   There are a few basic rules you can follow to ensure that your emails are received

You’ll find that with a healthier work life balance you’re more inspired, enthused and energetic both in the classroom and at home. here are a few ideas to help you redress the balance.