As the summer holidays continue, it is great to see more and more trainees and NQTs joining the hive-mind of #Edutwitter and reaching out for advice on what is best to be doing ahead of September. There’s no one size fits all approach – each teacher, classroom and school context is different. My main pieceContinue reading “Top 5 Tips for Trainees and NQTs”
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The ever-moving puzzle board: The Seating Plan
Seating Plans. Whether they are for a wedding or for your classroom, they can be a nightmare that keeps on coming and can never feel complete. Seating plans are like ever-moving puzzle boards – constantly shifting and changing with every minute of a lesson or from lesson to lesson. One lesson a seating plan mayContinue reading “The ever-moving puzzle board: The Seating Plan”
Top 5 Tips for being a Tutor
We’re coming to the end of what has been a pretty hectic, traumatic and down-right exhausting academic year – am I right? But there will be some of us who may have gotten some the news that they are going to be a tutor for the first time from September, might be getting a newContinue reading “Top 5 Tips for being a Tutor”
Talk? Think? Teach?
You might be wondering why I have titled my blog ‘Talk, Think, Teach’ or you might be sitting there going, ‘It’s pretty obvious, why are you writing a blog post about it?’ Well, I hope it is the former, otherwise you’ve wasted time coming on to this blog post. Sorry. Anyway, for those of youContinue reading “Talk? Think? Teach?”
Advice to the Next Generation
Last week, saw the end of my two year training to become a teacher – QTS, tick. NQT, tick. Woohoo! It’s made me think about what is important to thrive as a trainee/NQT, especially as there are lots of trainees out there in the #edutwitter sphere clambering about asking what they need to do toContinue reading “Advice to the Next Generation”
