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Back To School Dos and Don’ts

1st September 20194th September 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1349 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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Curriculum Seasonal Students

The Pros and Cons of Sports Day

4th July 20194th July 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1648 Views 1 Comment community, Competitiveness, Curriculum, Demographics, Drinks, enrichment, extra-curricular, healthy eating, inclusion, Junk Food, Liam Webb, Parents, PE, PE teacher, physical education, Self-Esteem, Snacks, Sport, sports day, Team Games, Team Sport, Team Sports, Timetable

Reading Time: 3 minutes What are the benefits and pitfalls to a school when organising a Sports Day?

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Primary Resources Review

3 Reasons To Get Passionate About Creative Writing

28th June 201928th June 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1311 Views Competition, Creative Writing, Curriculum, History, Kent, Literacy, Money, primary teaching, Product Review, Reading, Resources, West Midlands, Writing, Young Writers

Reading Time: 2 minutes How can teachers get all their pupils to fall in love with writing – in just one day?

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Curriculum Ofsted Teaching and Learning

Curriculum Questions for Intent, Implementation and Impact

17th June 201923rd June 2019 @TeacherToolkit 6096 Views 0 Comments Curriculum, Curriculum Plans, destination, EBacc, eSafety, Evaluation, Impact, Implementation, Intent, lesson plans, MER, middle leaders, Monitoring, Ofsted, PSHE, Schemes of Work, Sixth Form, STEM, timetables, Timetabling

Reading Time: 3 minutes You’ve got your curriculum plans all mapped out for the year ahead, so now what?

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International Podcasts Research

Podcast 51 – Teacher Ethics, Burnout and Demoralisation

15th June 201917th June 2019 Joshua McGovern 1313 Views 0 Comments #TTkit100Women, Academia, America, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Curriculum, Demoralized, Doris A. Santoro, Education Policy, ethics, Gender, higher education, Maine, Philosophy, Principled Resistance, Research, School Funding, Sexuality, social-media, Teaching and Learning, USA, Women in Education, Workload

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are teachers demoralised or burnt out, and why do teachers have a reluctance to say ‘no’?

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Curriculum Resources Review

Teaching Pupils About The Realities Of Work

10th June 20197th June 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1228 Views career development, Careers, careers advice, Communication, Creativity, Curriculum, digital skills, Employability, Employment, Entrepreneurial, Feeding Britain’s Future, Gatsby, IGD, Industry, leadership, lesson plans, Product Review, Resources, Skills, STEM, teacher templates, teamwork

Reading Time: 2 minutes How easy is it to link careers to the curriculum?

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Recruitment Staff Well Being Workload

How Principles of Love Transformed My Classroom

27th May 201929th May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1484 Views 0 Comments Bell Hooks, Collaboration, conflict, Creating a dialogue, Creativity, Curriculum, dialogue, Erich Fromm, Ethical, Gert Biesta, love, Mastery, mindfulness, Modelling, Multitasking, pedagogy, Relationships, restorative justice, Structure, Values, Weekends, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 3 minutes What does it mean to practice a pedagogy of love?

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CPD Curriculum Ofsted

#1MinCPD: New Education Inspection Framework!

22nd May 201922nd May 2019 Hanna Beech 1138 Views 0 Comments #EIF2019, Curriculum, Deep Dive, Education Inspection Framework, Grading Schools, Impact, Implementation, Intent, Ofsted, Quality of Education, School Inspections, Short Inspections

Reading Time: 1 minute Do you need a brief overview of some of the key points from the Education Inspection Framework (2019)?

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Cyber Ready Toolkit Ecclesiastical Insurance

Resources Review Technology

A Solution-Based Approach To Cyber Safety

20th May 20196th June 2019 @TeacherToolkit 849 Views Curriculum, Cyber Ready, Cyberbullying, cyberspace, Department for Education, Ecclesiastical Insurance, eSafety, eSafety Week, Key Stage 2, key stage 3, Online Safety, Pancentric Digital, Personal, Primary, Problem Solving, Product Review, PSHE, Resources, Social and Health Education, Toolkit

Reading Time: 2 minutes How can we support teachers to keep children safe online, as well as develop their critical thinking?

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Ofsted Parenting Research

What Are Parents’ Perceptions of OfSTED?

30th April 20192nd May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 864 Views 1 Comment Annual Parents Survey, Annual Survey, BAME, Black and Minority Ethnic, Childcare, childcare provider, Curriculum, Department for Education, Inspection, Office for National Statistics, Ofsted, Parent View, Parenting, Sampling, statistics, YouGov

Reading Time: 3 minutes What do parents think about our English state schools and how they are inspected?

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Supporting Hands Make Heart Sign And Wave In Front Of A Rainbow Flag

Parenting Policies Students

Teaching ‘Gay Stuff’ – Let’s Get This Straight

24th April 201924th April 2019 David Lowbridge-Ellis 1003 Views 0 Comments Amanda Spielman, babysitting, Bible, bigoted, bigotry, Christianity, Curriculum, discrimination, Disney, Equality Act, Gay, heteronormativity, homophobia, inclusive, Islam, LGBT, LGBTed, Margaret Thatcher, Ofsted, prejudice, Quran, Sean Harford, Section 28, SRE

Reading Time: 4 minutes How can teachers challenge bigoted world views?

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Assessment DfE Workload

5 Ideas for Making Data Collection Work

22nd April 201923rd April 2019 @TeacherToolkit 858 Views 0 Comments Assessment, Behaviour, Curriculum, Data, Data Analysis, Department for Education, incidents, MIS, Professional development, Professor Becky Allen, Reporting, Shanghai, SIMS, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is your school doing to reduce the data burden?

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Assessment DfE Exams

Do We Test Children Too Much?

17th April 201917th April 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1154 Views 0 Comments Assessment, Baseline, Curriculum, Department for Education, England, Exams, EYFS, Finland, Gaming, Hong Kong, Jeremy Corbyn, Literacy, NAHT, NAHT Accountability Commission, Nick Gibb, off rolling, Phonics, Phonics Check, Primary, SAT, SATs, Singapore, Stress, Testing, Tim Oates

Reading Time: 4 minutes Do our schools in England test children too much, particularly at primary level?

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Education Manifesto for Change Richard Gerver

Publication Review Writing

Change Starts With Teachers And It Needs To Start Now!

6th April 201919th May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 919 Views accountability, Assessment, Bloomsbury Publishing, Book Review, business, Cuba, Curriculum, Doctorate, Finland, Foreword, Israel, Manifesto, politics, Progressive, Quit Teaching, Richard Gerver, Ross McGill, social-media, socio-economic, South Korea, Testing, Traditional, University of Cambridge

Reading Time: 7 minutes Do teachers have the potential to change the educational landscape?

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Ofsted Research Teaching and Learning

The Analysis of Classroom Observations

17th March 201917th March 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2958 Views 17 Comments Curriculum, Faculty of Education, Lev Vygotsky, Neil Mercer, Observations, Teaching and Learning, The British Psychological Society, University of Cambridge, Verbal Feedback, Verbal Feedback Project

Reading Time: 3 minutes How should teachers conduct lesson observations of other teachers?

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Curriculum Pastoral Students

Character Education Is A Deliberate Process

14th March 201914th March 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1578 Views 0 Comments Assemblies, character, Character Education, Curriculum, extra-curricular, Jubilee Centre, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, Rachael Hunter, role model, University of Birmingham, Virtue

Reading Time: 2 minutes What do schools need to do in order to make ‘character education’ bring about change in young people?

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Assessment Exams Policies

Do School Examinations Fail Some Of Our Pupils?

10th March 20199th March 2019 @TeacherToolkit 931 Views 4 Comments Curriculum, Dame Rachel De Souza, Debate Chamber, Dubai, Edward Thorndike, English, Examinations, Exams, Freddie McGill, Global Skills and Education Forum, Harvard, Jeanne Allen, Maths, Pilot, Premature, Professor Jo Ritzen, Susan Hopgood, The End of Average, Todd L Rose, USA Air Force

Reading Time: 5 minutes How did you score in your maths and English examinations at school?

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