Finding confidence when teaching

Why is confidence important in teachers?

Finding your confidence in the classroom can have a positive effect on many areas of your teaching; from enabling you to push boundaries, try new teaching methods and better support student progress, to increasing your enjoyment of the job and your longevity in the profession. As a teacher, your confidence is key.

Here you'll find some top tips and advice as well as some Tes tools that can help you to build or maintain your classroom confidence. You can also sign up to receive updates including useful stories, guides, upcoming webinars and more.

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    Free guide: Finding your confidence when teaching

    From building your own confidence in the classroom, to discovering ways to help your students become more confident, our free guide is packed with tips, advice and support.

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    Lit in Colour Teaching Conference

    Watch all the sessions from our Lit in Colour conference, packed full of practical advice and support to build your confidence in teaching texts by authors of colour to create positive change in your classroom.

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    Go back to school with confidence with teacher essentials

    Looking for creative new ideas when planning lessons? Wanting to speed up marking and feedback processes? Then look no further as our Tes Teacher essentials collection is the perfect place for you.

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Tips and advice for classroom confidence

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Teacher confidence stories

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    Primary headteacher shares how confidence affects his role

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    Former Headteacher shares her advice to build teacher confidence

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    What to do when you do not feel confident in the classroom?

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    Former teacher discusses how important teacher confidence is