Welcome to Day Fourteen on the Appvent Calendar. Today I thought it would be a good opportunity to pause and reflect. The Christmas term is often one of the most stressful terms in the year. Parent’s evenings, nativity events, Christmas carol concerts, sporting events, house championship events, staff cross country,…
Being a form tutor is one of the most rewarding parts of the job of being a teacher. You’ll have allsorts of characters thrown at you in the course of your teaching career. When you go back to school this year who will you be confronted with. Will it be…
Twitter’s great. Don’t get me wrong. But things have been afoot for sometime. You see the Twitter that I talk and share about is the best staffroom in the world. It’s a place where whenever you ask a question, someone will come to your help. It’s easy. It’s better than…
I’ve been creating a number of posters featuring quotes from the inspiring #Nurture1415 blog posts that many educators have been writing although I haven’t made one for myself (if you’d like to, please do and pass on?). It’s a labour of love, but I get so much each year from…
Originally posted on Staffrm, this is a post with some ideas about how you can get some balance with work & your personal life… I’ve had a lot to think about lately. I’ve seen lots of talk about the emotional well being of staff. The emotional well being of our…
1. No two days, classes, students, are the same. It goes in many ways to what Coe said in his recent report: “Ultimately, the definition of effective teaching is that which results in the best possible student outcomes. There is currently no guaranteed recipe for achieving this: no specifiable combination…
I am extremely excited to have been nominated for the UK Blog Awards 2015. I have been nominated for Education blog of the year! Thank you to the people who nominated me for this. It is exceedingly humbling. I have always seen this space as a place to offer help…
With this new academic year looming ever closer, I’ve been thinking about what it must like to be an NQT starting your teaching career in the current edu-political climate in the UK. Certainly, I don’t think there has ever actually been a better time to be a teacher. In my…
I was really inspired by the many reflective and forward thinking posts in the Nurture 13/14 initiative this year. It was actually sparked off in 12/13 by the mysterious @chocotzar on Twitter. Given its success last year, she asked others to have another go this year for 2013/14 – 13 things…
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