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Free lessons, no uniform and independent learning – post-16 education is a different world for pupils, says Callum Jacobs

For teachers wanting to bask in the warm glow of their profession – as well as the sun – Callum Jacobs has some reading suggestions

Teach them about tax, get them to navigate the government website and show them how to be considerate housemates, writes Callum Jacobs

While discipline has an important role in schools, encouraging students to blindly follow the rules risks turning them into moral automatons who take no responsibility for their actions – so let’s develop their capacity for independent thought, urges Callum Jacobs

Tell pupils what to read, when to read it, and treat it like a competition: three sure-fire ways to put pupils off reading, writes this teacher

Why do we put so much focus on data? It’s unreliable, confuses pupils and teachers, and takes up far too much time, writes one teacher