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

General teaching topics:

• At a glance: how GCSEs and A levels will work in 2021

• Could the ‘love languages’ help students in lockdown?

• How to build truly reciprocal relationships in school

• National Tutoring Programme: how to take part

• 5 teaching positives from 2020 I’m keeping in 2021

• Coronavirus: 147 free resources for home learning

• What GCSE students are worrying about (and how to help)

• Why parents need support with online learning

• To Meet or to Zoom: should that be the question?

• 5 tips for keeping home-working aches and pains at bay

• Teacher’s pets: How to run an animal assembly

• 10 tips for boosting remote primary lesson engagement

International schools:

• 10 fun ideas for boosting pupils’ energy in online lessons
• 4 ways to use Google Classroom for assessment
• How international schools can ride out political upheaval
• 8 great keyboard shortcuts you should know
• Teaching ideas from Donald Trump’s second impeachment

For those with a subscription to the magazine:

• What’s the best way to assess a four-year-old?
• How to guard against being manipulated
• In schools, behaviour is a numbers game
• How to adapt SEND provision during Covid-19
• Why giggling in class spreads like wildfire 
• The vaccine rollout offers lessons for school improvement
• Tips to make planning long-term strategy easier
• The extracurricular activities thriving during Covid