Section 26, Paragraph 5
johndabell James Bond fans will remember this classic exchange from The Living Daylights starring Timothy Dalton,
September 2019
Have You Got Ikiru Chikara?
Do we teach our children the ability to grow and adapt?
Teachers As Raconteurs
Teachers need to be able to tell a good story. Explanations can be as dry as a bone without some sort of narrative so as teachers we need to be…
Failure Fridays
Do you celebrate failure?
Are You OK?
Transactional Analysis (TA) is part of social psychology and was developed by the Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne in 1958.
Do Your Staff Have Guild Knowledge?
Every teacher needs to learn to develop judgement about the quality of work pupils produce. Over time, we develop an eye for quality work and it what comparative judgement is…
Interview Questions For Teachers
Despite the recruitment and retention crisis we keep hearing about, it is far from easy to walk into a teaching job in some parts of the country. The teaching is…
Flipnosis In The Classroom
Teachers can spend a lot of time coaxing and cajoling in order to get some students working. They need gentle persuasion. Then there are those that need almost force-feeding to…
Teaching Double Acts – Where Are They?
When I was training to be a CPD provider I was mentored by two brilliant people – Stuart Naylor and Brenda Keogh. They were a formidable team and I learned…
Teacher Training Gap: Counselling
Counselling is a huge part of being a teacher but no one teaches us how to be counsellors. Teaching training institutions certainly fall flat on their faces here. Teachers spend…