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As I sit on the aeroplane on the way to my holiday destination it is the first time I feel I can stop, breathe and reflect on another…

Most of what makes classrooms work is invisible. The activities that teachers and students enact are, by and large, irrelevant; the here and…

So, term begins for the first time in four years without Michael Gove as education secretary. How does that feel? Not great for my fellow…

Nothing particularly stands out from my high school days. It’s all a bit of a blur. I think I was interested in comparative literature…

TS visits a community school that is truly worthy of the title… In much the same way as everyone who lives in London likes to claim that…

What we tell young people about themselves can stunt their educational development – or enable them to flourish beyond all expectations,…

The Psychologist Rudolf Dreikurs, after many observations, identified four motivators for disruptive behaviour in the classroom: To get…

My memories of my school days are mostly positive. With all this talk about curriculums and tests, it’s easy to forget that our experience…

We’ve talked about collaboration in education for years. For a long time, though, hasn’t the atmosphere, at best, actually been one of…

A friend of mine used to have a single, special pen to do his marking. They spent wonderful times together: romantic walks through the park…

Embarrassing or enlightening? What is your experience of teaching SRE? Being asked to provide cover for a sex and relationships education…

QI teach at a medium-sized academy school in the South East – it serves a catchment of relatively low deprivation, and we are lucky in…

In the past, school magazines were often generated by media or English departments, creating thriving extra-curricular opportunities for…