Reading Time: 3 minutes Stop Talking about Wellbeing: A Pragmatic Approach to Teacher Workload by Kat Howard. Published by John Catt Educational Ltd English teacher, Assistant Principal and LitDrive founder Kat Howard has entered the field of teacher wellbeing books with this provocatively titled work aimed at teachers at all stages of their careers. Unusually, the book opens with […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes A guest post by @AdrianBethune ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’, once wrote Shakespeare. He’d clearly never taught PE during his NQT year, to a bunch of Year 2s, during an observation, where two children had to be carted off with head injuries (true story). That was completely and […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes We caught up with teacher, author and academic Dr. Emma Kell following the recent publication of How to Survive in Teaching and asked her a few searching questions… 1-How did you get interested in teacher wellbeing? Like any area of interest, the focus was initially a personal one. As a mother as well […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes A guest post by @EdSupportUK My name is Anna*, and I’ve been a helpline counsellor at Education Support Partnership for over four years*. As we gear up for a busy January, I wanted to tell you more about the help we provide to the education staff who contact us in distress on a daily basis. We […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes So, this is your first Christmas in a Primary School? Here are a few words to the wise. You may think you have got the hang of school routines but you will suddenly find them whisked away from you. Around now, most schools shift to PSCT (Primary School Christmas Time). While it may be formally […]
