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.
Tips and advice for classroom confidence
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How new teachers can build confidence in the classroom
Andy Taylor explains how adopting a different persona can fool your students into thinking you're brimming with confidence.
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Does teacher confidence improve student learning?
Marc Smith explores the research that sheds some light on how children respond to confidence in adults.
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Tes Resources
Find inspiration, save time and create great lessons with tried and tested resources created by teachers, for teachers.
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Tes Institute
Develop and progress at every stage of your career with flexible, personalised teacher training and CPD.
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Tes Magazine
Get digital access to the latest education insight, analysis, and teaching and learning knowledge – anytime, anywhere.
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Support for schools leaders
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Class Charts
Get a holistic overview of performance, wellbeing and outcomes to see what's really happening with your students.
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Tes Safeguarding
Strengthen your skills and help keep all your students safe with our flexible online safeguarding courses.
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School Wellbeing Report 2023: UK
Including responses from almost 6,000 school staff, our 2023 report provides valuable insights into the state of staff wellbeing in the UK's schools today.
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7 key safeguarding concerns guide
Safeguarding issues are rarely standalone events so it's crucial that all staff are kept up to date.
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What to do to remain safeguarding compliant
Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families and carers has a role to play. Here we explore the different roles and responsibilities in schools.
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