Here’s your round-up of the latest practical and useful guides for schools that Tes has published over the past seven days.  

General teaching topics:

• Pets teaching lessons? It’s no shaggy dog story

• How to review your online learning provision

• 5 remote learning tips for NQTs

• How can schools help students without laptops?

• 3 key tips for teaching practical subjects online

• 27 clever teaching hacks for Google Classroom

• 5 ways to overcome your fitness excuses

• 5 ways to make home learning a positive experience

• How to doodle-do drawing for learning

• 5 ways to tackle students’ Covid contamination fears

International schools:

• How is Covid affecting teacher recruitment?
• How to get your recruitment strategy in shape
• 4 golden rules for handling wellbeing issues
• The power of mentors to boost careers
• How to restore order to your IT estate

For those with a subscription to the magazine:

• Why period positivity matters for everyone in schools
• Phonics and spelling: what does the evidence say? 
• Working memory needs modelling, not Play-Doh models
• How to foster drug and alcohol safety in schools
• To improve safeguarding, schools need to widen the lens
• Radical Candor: 5 tips for awkward conversations
• How to educate students about the dangers of gambling