Classroom routines are an important part of making classrooms safe and productive spaces for pupils to learn. Having expected ways of behaving for key transitions or activities means that more time can be spent learning than ‘getting ready’. Routines can be established that will benefit from regular practise and revisiting until they are well embedded […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ A culture of student agency and the effects of enforced online learning I recently facilitated some COVID-19 focus group discussions with UK teachers, and the phrase, ‘What’s the point?’ was the reported view of many students who no longer believed in the purpose or structure of their education, after […]
In this webinar recording, Professor Paul Washington Miller (President, Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management), Naheeda Maharasingam (Headteacher, Rathfern Primary School) and Professor Dame Alison Peacock (Chief Executive, Chartered College of Teaching) discuss: Anti-racism De-colonising the curriculum Approaches to building greater diversity across the profession We need long-term solutions for the profession to […]
In this recorded panel discussion, Professor Dame Alison Peacock, Aretha Banton, Uzma Sarwar and Youlande Harrowell discuss issues of diversity in education, share lived experiences of racism within education, and talk about their work in forming Mindful Equity UK, a peer support network with the mission of: Supporting Black and Asian women in education to navigate […]
For our #FutureOfTeaching series, Professor Barry Carpenter joins Professor Dame Alison Peacock – CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching – to discuss a ‘recovery curriculum’. With a look at the emotional impact of the pandemic on children, the aims of a ‘recovery curriculum’ and how to re-engage the disengaged. What should the future of teaching look […]
In our report Education in the time of crisis: The potential implications of school closures for teachers and students we considered what we could learn from past crises about the potential implications of school closures and the crisis more widely for students’ learning and student as well as teacher wellbeing. While we can learn a […]
After the period of lockdown away from their friends and social support networks, getting back to a Drama classroom will allow students to reconnect socially, emotionally and creatively. Even if we are physically socially-distanced, the Drama classroom is a safe space where students can talk about their emotions, their lived experiences, developing empathy for others […]
Join Professor Dame Alison Peacock (Chief Executive, Chartered College of Teaching), Dr Lisa-Maria Muller (Education Research Manager, Chartered College of Teaching), Bavaani Nanthabalan (Executive Headteacher, Netley Primary School) and Dr Marcelo Staricoff (Author, Director and Consultant, JONK Thinking and Learning) as they: present findings from a scoping review on the links between multilingualism in the […]
This case study is written by Bethany Stewart, secondary English teacher. As you read this case study, reflect on the approaches suggested for developing subject expertise and consider how the approaches might be relevant to your own development as an early career teacher. Developing my subject expertise felt fundamental during my NQT year. Although I […]
In the beginning of January 2020, Time Magazine published an article about the benefits of being bored, particularly in relation to adults, and the way in which boredom can spark creativity. Boredom has a very bad reputation over the years. “The devil makes work for idle hands” (anon), “Boredom is the enemy of successful education” […]
Local authorities in Scotland have been exploring whether outdoor learning could be part of the answer to achieving social distancing and minimising transmission of COVID-19 in schools (Brooks, 2020). Scientists and medical experts are increasingly confident that coronavirus spreads less easily outdoors due to better ventilation; whilst virus-laden particles may be able to travel tens […]
TeachTogether is a free service from the Chartered College of Teaching and The Behavioural Insights Team, which sends one text a week to support teachers’ wellbeing. You can find out more and sign up here. In one week’s message, we asked teachers to tell us what small things they do to take care of themselves […]
Overview Recent events have highlighted a long since established need for educators to examine how we can advance racial equality in and through education. This is clearly a complex issue with varied and strongly-held views, but no simple solutions. This reading list is an extended and updated version of an earlier reading list supporting teachers […]
In this video, Vijita Patel, Principal of Swiss Cottage School, discusses how to support pupils with additional needs during school closures, as well as supporting the wider group of pupils. Vijita discusses the impacts of Covid-19, including: the loss of school structures, routines and daily interactions grief, including potential bereavements within families, as well as […]
Wellbeing, in a nutshell, is the point of balance between the pressures and stresses of life and a person’s capacity to deal with them (Dodge et al, 2012). It comprises of three strands: physical, psychological and social. These interwoven strands can’t be neatly separated out and neither can they be broken into handy categories, making […]
What is sexism? Psychologists and experts on sex discrimination have studied sexism to understand its underlying causes, how it is exhibited, the behaviour it encompasses and its impact on people. We know that sexism can be exhibited in different ways. Sometimes it is very obvious, blatant and involves hostile behaviour, such as verbal abuse or […]
What’s the idea? Whilst face-to-face teaching has not been possible, schools have taken many different approaches to providing remote learning for pupils – from synchronous or asynchronous lessons, to project-based approaches. One particular approach is the use of independent study projects – typically making use of the internet for research. This kind of project usually […]
Teacher Aisha Thomas, in her recent TED talk, spoke of how ‘every day BAME children are educated without seeing themselves in the curriculum or their environment. They hear about the greatness of others, all that they have conquered and contributed. Then they look at their own skin and think, what have my people achieved?’ (2020) […]
As my stomach turns at the loss of yet another life due to skin colour, I can’t help but feel the injustice seep beyond the media headlines and flow straight into the classroom. Coronavirus aside, our pupils will be making their way back to our classrooms: the rooms we deem safe, inclusive and a home […]
This case study is written by Adam Boxer, Head of Science at a secondary school. As you read this case study, reflect on the approaches suggested for developing subject expertise and consider how the approaches might be relevant to your own development as an early career teacher. The dynamic between generic teaching and learning and […]
