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Passing your nightmare pupils on to a supposedly tougher and more senior member of staff for treatment is the biggest classroom management mistake you can make, according to users on The TES staffroom

Debate on The TES online staffroom

Forget language learning by rote, a new scheme for teaching French has pupils playing memory games. Biddy Passmore translates

Learning words by sight, not sound, is helping children with Down syndrome. Biddy Passmore looks at the bigger picture

Five years on and after a pound;28 million makeover, one London school has transformed itself and its pupils. Biddy Passmore reports

Severe dyslexia does not have to be a byword for failure. A school using martial arts and a novel approach to reading and writing is seeing remarkable results. Biddy Passmore views them at first hand