Recruitment Staffing Workload 

How Can We Solve The Teacher Recruitment Crisis?

8th April 20187th April 2018 @TeacherToolkit 4290 Views 1 Comment Campbell's Law, Department for Education, league tables, Marking, OECD, Ofsted, Recruitment, Retention, School Workforce Census, Teacher Voice Omnibus Survey, Workload, YouGov

Reading Time: 5 minutes How can teachers and the Department for Education solve the teacher recruitment crisis together?

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Staff Well Being Staffing 

Being An Openly Gay Teacher

20th February 201816th February 2018 Alice England 4273 Views 0 Comments @ShaunDellenty, confidence, Equality, identity, Inclusion for All, inclusivity, LGBT, LGBTQ, Lip Service, NAHT, OutTeacher.org, role model, Schools Out, Stonewall, The L Word, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 4 minutes What are the realities of being an openly gay teacher?

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Politics Research Staffing 

Do You Have The Answers The DfE Needs?

8th February 20188th February 2018 Iesha Small 2014 Views 0 Comments Department for Education, Feedback, House of Commons, London, public accounts committee, questionnaire, Recruitment, recruitment and retention, Research, Survey, Teacher Recruitment, teacher retention

Reading Time: 2 minutes How do you think retention crisis can be solved?

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Staffroom Politics

20th January 201818th July 2018 @TeacherToolkit 1833 Views 1 Comment comedy, Education, James Wren, mindfulness, Podcast, politics, Relax, School, Staff Room, Stress, teacher, teaching

Reading Time: 1 minute What does mindfulness look like in your school?

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Staffing Teaching and Learning 

How To Support Weak Teachers

30th September 201729th September 2017 James Manwaring 7014 Views 5 Comments Appraisal, areas for development, Capability, mentor, mentoring, performance, Stress, support, Under-Performance, weakness, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 3 minutes How do you support teaching staff that are underperforming?

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Staffing 

The Psychology of Leaving

16th July 201716th July 2017 @TeacherToolkit 7808 Views 2 Comments 7 Stages of Grief, Amos Tversky, Cognition, Daniel Kahneman, intuition, Job Vacancy, Promotion, Prospect Theory, Psychologist, Psychology, Relationships, Relocation, Resign, Resignations

Reading Time: 5 minutes What happens when a teacher resigns from their workplace?

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Staffing 

Is Teaching A Young Person’s Game?

21st May 201721st May 2017 John Dabell 10421 Views 6 Comments age, Education, Education Policy Institute, energy, experience, Frank Michanowicz, John Tomsett, life experience, Marion Bryan, Nashville Public Radio, Nonagenarians, Peter Sellen, School, teaching, The Boston Globe, wisdom, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes How balanced is your teaching staff?

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Staffing 

Teacher Punishment

30th April 20177th May 2017 @TeacherToolkit 9208 Views 0 Comments Abuse, ADHD, Behaviour, child protection, Drugs, Exclusions, form class, Form Tutor, Head of Year, knife crime, Pastoral, Safeguarding, salvatio, social services, The Salvation Army, Tutoring

Reading Time: 4 minutes Why is it that some teachers are punished for doing a good job?

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Psychology Staffing Teaching and Learning 

50 ‘Teacherisms’

22nd April 20176th March 2018 John Dabell 16114 Views 6 Comments baggage, Behaviour, Education, experiences, feelings, School, Teacherisms, teaching, thoughts

Reading Time: 4 minutes What makes you a teacher?

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Staffing 

Teachers In Films!

31st March 201730th March 2017 John Dabell 3866 Views 4 Comments Albus Dumbledore, Bad Teacher, Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets Society, Elizabeth Halsey, Harry Potter, John Keating, Louanne Johnson, Mean Girls, Mrs Norbury, Sister Act 2, Sister Mary Clarence

Reading Time: 4 minutes Who would be in your ideal staffroom?

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Staff Well Being Staffing Workload 

In Praise of Part-Time Teachers

26th March 201725th March 2017 @TeacherToolkit 14791 Views 7 Comments Employment, Flexible Working Hours, leadership, Parenting, Part-Time, Rebecca Wildish, Schools, teachers, teaching

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you work part-time in education? Does your school grant flexible working hours?

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Seasonal Staffing Teaching and Learning 

Too Old To Learn?

18th March 201715th April 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2900 Views 1 Comment Abertay University, Alec Stewart, degree, Dundee, Dundee University, Further Education, Learning, Masters, PhD, Scotland, University

Reading Time: 2 minutes How old is too old? And should we ever stop learning?

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Leadership Policies Staffing 

SENCO: Whole School Role Or Hidden Gem?

5th March 20172nd April 2017 Helen Woodley 8177 Views 1 Comment attitudes, EHCP, Natalie Packer, QFT, SEN, SENCo, SEND Code of Practice, SLT, The Perfect SENCO, Traditional

Reading Time: 3 minutes Should all SENCOs be an integral part of the senior leadership team (SLT)?

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Staffing 

Parrot Fashion

29th January 201730th January 2017 John Dabell 6315 Views 2 Comments Bart Simpson, Behaviour, clothes, corporate, Dress Code, Interview, male, Primary, professional conduct, suits, teaching, Where's Wally?

Reading Time: 4 minutes We know that teaching is a wearing occupation, but does it really matter what you wear?

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The Coasting Teacher

26th November 201619th December 2016 John Dabell 16797 Views 36 Comments Capability, Coasting Teacher, John Dabell, Underperformance

Reading Time: 4 minutes How do you spot a ‘coasting’ teacher and how can you support them?

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Leadership Recruitment Staffing 

The Bermuda Triangle

8th November 20168th May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 9778 Views 13 Comments Capability, Incompetence, redundancy, Teachers' Standards, The Bermuda Triangle

Reading Time: 3 minutes What happens when teachers are judged to be incompetent?

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Leadership Recruitment Staffing 

Teacher Resignations: What To Do?

25th May 201612th February 2019 @TeacherToolkit 25808 Views 14 Comments Employment, Employment Law, End of contract, jobs, Leaving speeches, letter, quit, Resign, Resignation, STPCD, The Burgundy Book

Reading Time: 3 minutes How should you resign from your teaching position?

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