Why We Don’t Need Highlighters
Mark Enser recently drew our attention to a 2017 blog produced by @WHSmith and research behind using coloured pens in
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Teachers With Passion
With so much of the focus being on teacher wellbing and stress, isn’t it time we looked at wellbeing and
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Are You A Potter Or A Poet?
There is no blueprint for being a teacher or Head teacher but there are ‘types’ we can identify. Terry Deal
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No Cold-Calling Please!
No one likes cold callers do they? Cold-calling is a teaching technique used by many teachers as a way of
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What Do The Best Teachers Do?
That could be a long list but there is one thing they all do: they go home early. I say
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Are You A Minimalist Teacher?
Teachers do too much. They take on too much. The job suddenly becomes too much to take. It feels like
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Lest We Forget
Children will be learning a lot about Armistice 100 and why it is important that we ‘never forget’. 2018 marks
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The Disney Creativity Strategy
The Disney Creativity Strategy is a technique developed by Robert Dilts, a pioneer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He looked at the way
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