Polymath Primary Teachers
Primary school teachers need to know a lot of things; they teach a lot of subjects and they need to know an awful lot. Primary teachers have often been seen…
Every Day Is A School Day
Primary school teachers need to know a lot of things; they teach a lot of subjects and they need to know an awful lot. Primary teachers have often been seen…
When teachers describe themselves as "Just a teacher", this does us all a huge disservice. 'Just' could imply that you only just made it as a teacher. More often than…
Is there a universal way of improving relationships between teachers and students? Every teacher wants a healthy, positive and dynamic classroom climate where students are engaged and everyone 'gets on'.…
What are your strengths as a teacher? Teachers need lots of assets to do the job. Some of these can be trained and some are just down to individual differences.…
Schools demand plenty of things from their teachers and so do children, parents and 'society'. So what do they really want? 1. Grit Schools want teachers with resilience and grit.…
He's a thoroughly decent sort. You hear this. But what makes a decent teacher? Martin Haberman in his classic STAR Teachers of Children in Poverty thinks that only decent people…
A top restaurant relies on the food, service, the guests and the atmosphere. The atmosphere makes or breaks a restaurant even when the food and service is mediocre. What really…
Teachers quit their jobs for lots of reasons but star teachers don't, it's not in their DNA. Dr Martin Haberman explains what star teachers do in his book 'Star Teachers:…
If we operated the Michelin star system to teaching and schools then life would be more interesting. Most of us would have no stars and just have to make do…
What type of teacher are you? There are so many teaching types in a school it would make an interesting Police line-up. Here's just a few of the personalities that…