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What can we do to equip trainees to handle the most challenging aspect of the job – behaviour? It is crucial they create the right classroom environment – and Aristotelian rhetoric enables the teacher to develop a commanding presence, says Henry Sauntson

A decade ago, as a new teacher, Henry Sauntson dismissed all education research and thought a random-name generator was an essential teaching tool – now he admits he got things wrong

Wanting to get the most from our students is great, says Henry Sauntson, but our current methods are not the best way

The best new teachers are worth their weight in gold, so it’s worth making the effort to find them, says Henry Sauntson

Mentorship has a huge role to play in the success of new staff, so it’s worth getting right. Henry Sauntson explains how

In a secondary school where pupils tend to arrive with lower-than-average literacy levels, creating images to aid the retention and retrieval of terminology has proved successful ... up to a point, writes Henry Sauntson