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10 Amazing Schools Doing Remarkable Things

15th September 201914th September 2019 @TeacherToolkit 548 Views 0 Comments Adrian Kidd, Alastair Armstrong, case study, Claire Jones, CP Riverside School, Data, Dorian Pugh, Fettes College, Fiona Derrick, Helen Pike, Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, Huw Bonner, Interview, Jamie Barry, Jonathan Clucas, Just Great Teaching, Layton Primary School, Magdalen College School, Mary Eyre, Parson Street Primary School, Peter Collins, Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Research, Richard Langton, Sally Lees, Slough and Eton Church of England Business and Enterprise College, Sophie-Lauren McPhee, Trumpington Community College, Ysgol Henry Richard

Reading Time: 4 minutes How are British schools meeting the challenges of our education system, and what are they doing well?

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Blogging Research Social Media

The Unknown World of Education Twitter

15th September 201917th September 2019 @TeacherToolkit 467 Views 2 Comments advertising, Attention Economy, Attention Seeking, Branding, Cambridge University, Context Collusion, Doctorate, EdD, Edu-Twitter, Faichild, individual, Influence, influencer, Kharmis, Marwick, Mental Health, methodologies, Micro Celebrity, Neoliberalism, Ofsted, Research, Self Branding, Senft, Social Media Theory, social-media, Twitter

Reading Time: 4 minutes What is happening in the (online) teacher’s virtual staffroom?

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Podcasts Psychology Teaching and Learning

Podcast 56 – Unlocking the Benefits of Retrieval Practice

14th September 201912th September 2019 Joshua McGovern 720 Views 0 Comments #100women, #TTkitPodcast, Berklee College of Music, Blooms Taxonomy, Boston, Illinois, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Make It Stick, Memory, Middle School, Multiple Choice, Music, Musician, Patrice Bain, PhD, Podcast, Pooja Agarwal, Postdoctorate, Powerful Teaching, practice, Public School, Quiz, quizzing, Residential School, retrieval practice, St. Louis, STEM, USA, Washington University, WomenEd

Reading Time: 1 minute How can teachers use retrieval practice better in the classroom to enable students to improve their memory?

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Governance Podcasts Policies

Podcast 55 – How Can Schools Improve Attitudes To Hair?

12th September 201912th September 2019 Joshua McGovern 408 Views 0 Comments #100women, #TTkitPodcast, Afro, Assembly, BAME, Black African, Black Caribbean, discrimination, Equality, Equality Act, Exclusions, Gender, girls, Hair, Hair Equality Report, Head Girl, inclusion, lesson plans, London, Michelle De Leon, Podcast, racism, Stigma, World Afro Day

Reading Time: 1 minute Are our attitudes to hairstyles still hindering inclusion and inadvertently discriminating others?

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CPD Mental Health Students

#1minCPD: Using Non-Judgemental Listening

11th September 201911th September 2019 Hanna Beech 410 Views 0 Comments #1minCPD, body language, conversation, Eye Contact, Facial Expressions, listening, Mental Health

Reading Time: 1 minute How can we be better at listening when supporting young people with mental health?

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Coaching Research Teaching and Learning

Is Teacher-Autonomy For You?

10th September 201912th September 2019 @TeacherToolkit 930 Views 2 Comments accountability, Compliance, David Price, frequency, high-stakes, Mark-Plan-Teach, Policies, Progressive, Teaching and Learning, teaching and learning policy, Tom Rogers, Traditiona;, Traditional

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can schools create a climate in which all teachers, regardless of age or stage, can thrive?

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Mental Health Policies Staffing

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Teachers Struggle in Rural Schools

9th September 20199th September 2019 @TeacherToolkit 525 Views 1 Comment Anglia Ruskin University, Birmingham, Bisexual, Catherine Lee, cisnormativity, conservative, Gay, Goldsmiths College, heteronormativity, homophobia, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, Margaret Thatcher, Mental Health, Moral, No Outsiders, Non-Binary, Pansexual, Promotion, PSHE, Queer, Research, Rural School, Section 28, sex education, Sexual Identity, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 3 minutes How do Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual teachers experience rural school communities?

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Publication Teaching and Learning Writing

Book Publication 🚀 Day: Just Great Teaching

5th September 201911th September 2019 @TeacherToolkit 618 Views 0 Comments Allana Gay, Amazon, Audible, Bloomsbury Education, Bobby Seagull, Chris Moyse, Dr. Elaine Watson, Fiona Miller, James Pope, Just Great Teaching, Lee Elliot Major, Mark Quinn, United Kingdom

Reading Time: 3 minutes What can you expect from my new book, Just Great Teaching?

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Seasonal Staffing Workload

Back To School Dos and Don’ts

1st September 20194th September 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1365 Views 0 Comments Appraisal, Back To School, Bullying, College of Teaching, Cover Lessons, cover supervisor, CPD, Curriculum, EdTech, Google, grading lessons, Graffiti, Inset, Learning Walks, Litter, Marking, Meetings, middle leaders, Observations, Reception, Recruitment, Research, social-media, Timetable, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 5 minutes Is your school genuinely placing the interests of its teachers as a key priority?

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Politics Publication Social Media

What Makes Someone Influential?

31st August 201930th August 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1033 Views 0 Comments Article, Celetoid, Debretts, doctor, EdD, Grim-Reaper, Influence, Liz Lightfoot, Micro Celebrity, Most Followed, Most Influential in Britain, Sexual Abuse, social-media, The Guardian, The Kardashian Effect, Theresa M. Senft

Reading Time: 2 minutes What makes a person a source of influence?

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Harrow International School Beijing China

CPD International Recruitment

What I Discovered About Teaching In China

19th August 201919th August 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1486 Views 4 Comments Beijing, China, Chinese, EdTech, Harrow International School, Independent Schools, International Schools, Mark-Plan-Teach, middle leaders, Nick Gibb, Report Writing, reports, Shanghai maths, Workload

Reading Time: 5 minutes What is it like to teach in an international school in China?

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Publication Research Writing

Bringing An Education Book To Life!

11th August 201910th August 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1017 Views 0 Comments Beccles, Binding, Bloomsbury Education, Bloomsbury Publishing, books, Costs, CPI Books UK, Glue, Just Great Teaching, Laser Cutting, Lithography, Offset, Paper, Printer, Printing, stitching, Suffolk

Reading Time: 2 minutes What happens when you send your book off to be printed?

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Leadership Psychology Research

The Stop Rule

28th July 201929th July 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2115 Views 0 Comments Booster Class, decision making, Donald Sull, GCSE, Gerald Loeb, Interventions, Kathleen Eisenhard, leadership, Management, Mount Everest, Mountian, Non Negotiable, Rock Climbing, Safeguarding, Seth Godin, Simple Rules, the decision book, The Stop Rule

Reading Time: 3 minutes When should we rethink a decision?

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Policies Research Social Media

Developing A Research Methodology

21st July 201919th July 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1894 Views 1 Comment Cambridge University, Doctorate, EdD, Education Policy, Faculty of Education, influencer, Macro, Meso, methodologies, Micro, Micro Celebrity, PhD, Policy, practice, Research, social-media, Sociology, Teacher Voice, Theory

Reading Time: 4 minutes How does one go about developing a research methodology for a doctoral degree?

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Publication Research Writing

The United Kingdom Has Amazing Teachers!

15th July 201915th July 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2164 Views 0 Comments Bloomsbury Publishing, Book, Case Studies, England, Hell, Just Great Teaching, neuroscience, Northern Ireland, Politicians, politics, Pooja Agarwal, Researching, Scotland, Wales, Writing

Reading Time: 3 minutes What are the strengths and challenges of teaching across the United Kingdom?

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Behaviour Ofsted Teaching and Learning

Questions Ofsted Will Ask Parents

10th July 201910th July 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2381 Views 0 Comments Behaviour, behaviour management, data collection, Education Inspection Framework, EIF 2019, Homework, Ofsted, Parent View, Progress, School Inspection, Survey

Reading Time: 4 minutes Does ‘the school makes sure its pupils are well behaved?’, or ‘Does the school makes sure my child is well-behaved?’

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Curriculum Resources Review

Raising the Profile of Apprenticeships

8th July 20194th July 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1858 Views 1 Comment ABM, Apprenticeships, attitudes, Careers, careers advice, Careers Guidance, Electricity, Employment, engineering, Experiements, Facilities management, JEEP, Junior Engineering Engagement Programme, Justine Salmon, law, Parents, Perceptions, Product Review, Resources, Skills, STEM, Sustainability, Teacher Resources

Reading Time: 2 minutes Is an apprenticeship a viable alternative to going to university?

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