Two minutes might feel like an insignificant amount of time, but applying the rule consistently will lead to significant improvements in your productivity as a teacher. Here’s how. … More The 2-Minute Teaching Rule
To help you to maintain a healthy work-life balance, and to keep you in the classroom longer, take a look at these practical tips to avoid burnout. … More Tips to Avoid Burnout for a Secondary School Teacher
This is such a divisive topic. The more that I use AI, and the better that I get at using it, the more that I like it. It’s imperative, though, that we continue to ensure that we’re the ones in charge of AI. … More Is it ethical to use AI in teaching?
When I saw that the Holocaust Educational Trust was offering a 1-day trip to Poland for Sixth Formers, I felt that it was my duty to secure a place. I was lucky enough to be able to go with the students for what was an exhausting, informative, day. … More I took 6 students to Poland…for the day
It’s no secret that being a teacher can be busy. Incredibly busy. Like any job, that busyness ebbs and flows, but there’s no escaping that it takes a lot of hard work to stay on top of everything that needs doing – and getting it done well. Here are the processes, tools and apps that I use to stay organised a teacher. … More How I stay organised as a teacher
Not too long ago, I embarked upon my first trip abroad. I was one of several teachers accompanying students from years 10-13 to France and Belgium. We toured around the battlefields that were left behind in the aftermath of World War One and absorbed so, so much. Here’s what it was like for a teacher to go on his first ever school trip abroad. … More Taking on a school trip to Belgium – a teacher’s experience
The first teacher’s strike of the year has been and gone, but more are on the way. Regardless of your thoughts on them, it is so important for workers to have their voices heard. And for a teacher’s strike, no voice is more important than a teacher’s … More Let’s talk about the strikes
Here are six of the most important skills that you need to be a teacher. … More 6 skills you need to be a teacher
What better way to celebrate turning another year older than with 26 crucial life lessons that I’ve picked up after 26 birthdays? Here are nine on everything I know about education … More 26 lessons from 26 birthdays: education
Resources vanishing from the web has become a major pain in teaching, adding potentially hundreds of extra hours planning every year. With the Wayback Machine, your problems may be solved … More The Wayback Machine solves a major teaching problem
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