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Support for teachers

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Teaching is a very stressful job and stress is the number one cause of many teachers leaving the profession within their first year. Stress can be caused by a disruptive class. Teacher not having control and therefore not dealing with situations as they should, too much workload and not enough support from head teachers or colleagues. If you are a teacher and are feeling under pressure in your current job then there are places you can go and people you can speak to, to get support and advice. The NUT _Nation Union for Teachers have recently set up a helpline... Read More »

Home-school radicalisation risk

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Home-schooling is on the rise in the UK, with many parents feeling dissatisfied with the schools available to them in their area. Whether their concerns are well founded is up for debate, but there’s no reason to think that a responsible parent can’t do a great job of teaching their child. Parents must undergo checks to show that the child’s welfare is not at risk but the government is looking to clamp down on home-schooling amid fears of radicalisation, particularly at some Islamic madrasas, some of which have been found to be teaching homophobic and misogynistic ideas and anti-Semitism. There... Read More »

How important is spelling and grammar?

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Before the days of computers and phones etc, it was vital that you knew how to spell certain words. If you were writing a CV, for example, then you needed to ensure that you’re spelling and grammar was correct otherwise it may of looked bad on your application. With almost all phones and computers having a spell checker installed, many children and young adults do not put the effort in to learning spelling and grammar as they know the computer will correct it for them. Although this can save time, it is not ideal to reply on this method one... Read More »

Coping with an Ofsted inspection

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Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) and is a non-ministerial department of the UK government. The services Ofsted inspects or regulates include: local services, child-minding, child day care, children’s centres, children’s social care, CAFCASS, state schools, independent schools and teacher training providers, colleges, and learning and skills providers in England. They will visits a setting and review the school, the teachers and how the pupils are working to ensure that the education being offered is at the level it should be. Ofsted inspections are made up of a number of elements and each... Read More »

Tailoring your lessons to multiple skill sets

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When working as a teacher, you may find that you have a large variety of skill levels within one class. This can especially true for small schools that may require different year groups to be taught as one class. If this is the case, then you need to consider your lesson and how you can tailor it to all the pupils. It may be that you need to split the class down in to smaller groups and give each one a separate task but remember that you may only have one TA or at times no one else to assist... Read More »