How to set class rules
Keep your class rules short, simple and fairly general, while allowing yourself scope to expand. If they’re too vague, then they’re meaningless, i.e.
Behaviour: Dealing with aggression from pupils
A recent study by the NASUWT teaching union suggests that almost half of trainees are dissatisfied with the training they received on dealing with disruptive behaviour and over a third say the
It's a form of passion: student infatuations
Sting famously penned a song about them, and the former chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead infamously declared that they could be "educative".
Dealing with the classroom divas
Every class has one - the man who would be King, the Queen of the Night; the student who can't quite grasp that the world doesn't revolve around them. Here's how to deal with them
The weirdest behaviour questions ever...
OK it's the Christmas break, but before you turn off completely I want to delight you with three of the most unusual behaviour requests I’ve ever had to answer on the
The ups and downs of marking
mrsnic, an NQT teaching year 3, explains her love/hate relationship with marking. Does this ring any bells with you?
Managing the last week of term
If you teach any child, ever, anywhere, you will be familiar with the metronomic repetition of one request: ‘Are we having a fun lesson?’ when breaks approach and seasons roll around.
Educating Essex - what did we learn about teaching?
Educating Essex has been retired to the great Academy Elysium. So what have we learned? Apart from the fact that diameter is circumference divided by pi?
PGCE vs. NQT? Time to compare and contrast...
Having just completed his NQT year, our blogger Tim Handley looks back to the PGCE and reflects on just how far he has come
Setting up your classroom for September: live chat 22 August 2011
The live chat we did with Gererd Dixie on 22nd August is located here http://newteachers.tes.co.uk/node/46017