A guest post from @Framheadteacher The reason I get my hair cut at Jaff’s* on Gosforth High Street (other than the very reasonable £9 it costs me) is that the person cutting my hair doesn’t try to engage me in conversation. It’s the same reason I let my wife sit next to the driver when […]
A guest post from @the9to5teacher. Having recently had the annual ‘settling in’ parent meeting, I was slightly surprised with how many parents asked about ‘does my child disturb the class? / Are they well behaved? / Do they chat too much?’ as the meetings were rounding off. All of which I replied with, “Absolutely not; that […]
Abbie Mann, @abbiemann1982 shares her thoughts on wellbeing, workload and being a best selling author. What lead you to write this book? Live Well, Teach Well came about as a result of a real focus on my own wellbeing. The first five years of my teaching career were the most challenging for me. I worked as a […]
A guest post from Dr Rodger Caseby. Email is meant to ease communication but all too often it can become an insurmountable mountain as out inboxes fill up faster than we can empty them. A couple of years ago, I came across a method for dealing with email designed by Kevin Kruse (ww.kevinkruse.com). He had […]
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 […]
Workload Reduction Strategy Download our Workload Reduction Strategy as a PowerPoint slide, PDF or JPEG. Many thanks to @AdrianBethune for the design. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which means that You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the […]
Download our Workload Reduction Strategy as a PowerPoint slide, PDF or JPEG. Many thanks to @AdrianBethune for the design. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which means that You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material Under the […]
Live Well, Teach Well sets out its stall on the cover with the tagline “A practical approach to wellbeing that works”. In her introduction, Abbie describes the book as “a ‘pick-up-and-look’ resource for when you need it most.” This is not a book to be read cover to cover, nor does it draw heavily on research; […]
A guest post by @Vivgrant. Throughout most of last year it seemed that the whole of the Education sector was on high alert. There were numerous reports about the impact of the teacher recruitment and retention crisis and the number of School Leaders set to the leave the profession; with media outlets suggesting that English Schools may […]
A guest post by @viewthrudifeyes We moan a lot as a profession. And, though at times warranted, it doesn’t do us any favours for all sorts of reasons. Yes – managing behaviour can be hard; yes – the pay often doesn’t reflect the hours worked and yes there are lots of bits of our job which […]
