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How does teacher body language affect behaviour?
Do you stand like a sergeant major in front of your class? Do you keep your arms crossed? Teacher body language plays a big part in managing pupil behaviour, finds Carly Page – and the postures adopted by many staff may be fuelling disruption in the classroom
26 June 2020
Sowing the seeds of a green school movement
Primary children in Glasgow are being given seeds to plant oak trees in a scheme designed to educate them about the environment and ‘greenify’ derelict sites in the city, writes Carly Page – and the organisers have ambitions to branch out across the UK
5 June 2020
Can students ever be too clever for their own good?
The belief that highly intelligent people are more likely to lack social skills or suffer emotional issues is a misconception, research suggests. Academics say that schools need a better understanding of gifted students if they want to challenge them academically and avoid creating problems that don’t exist, writes Carly Page
7 May 2020
How to deal with boredom in the classroom
Boredom has a bad reputation and most of us will go to great lengths to avoid it. But this little-researched emotion is less straightforward than it seems and can in fact serve an important function in education, finds Carly Page
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17 April 2020
Why schools should be playing more stoolball
A new rivalry could be about to ignite up and down school playgrounds between rounders and stoolball, says Carly Page
3 April 2020
Pupil behaviour got you in a flap? Try pigeon racing
A primary that incorporated pigeon racing into its curriculum found that giving challenging students the opportunity to look after their feathered friends improved behaviour and attendance – and even led some to meet the Queen, as Carly Page reports
20 March 2020