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‘Inspections may have changed - but everyone plays the game, just like they always have before’
In the early days of Ofsted, inspectors were steered away from guitar-playing hippy teachers. Today, if the guitar-player gets results, then all must have guitars. It’s the children who suffer, says this history teacher
25 March 2016
‘The chancellor is making schools play mummy and daddy, rather than improving the lives of teachers’
The government still hasn’t grasped that, without investing money in well-trained, well-paid, unstressed teachers, there is unlikely to be any change to educational outcomes, a history teacher writes
18 March 2016
‘There are very many teachers out there fired up about teaching, despite the sometimes deafening background noise’
The experience of helping to organise a TeachMeet has given this history teacher fresh admiration for the profession
11 March 2016
‘Professional autonomy, reduced workload and teaching for teaching’s sake: Why wouldn’t you teach abroad?’
Unless there’s a massive change in the culture of English education, not even a Trump-style wall would stem the exodus of British teachers to the burgeoning international schools sector, writes a history teacher and tutor
4 March 2016
‘There is a tidal wave of problems heading in the direction of secondary teachers’
Assessment and testing is in a mess and this will have very real repercussions for secondary teachers and schools when the new accountability measure Progress 8 is in full swing, writes one history teacher and tutor
26 February 2016
‘We must stop undermining and destroying the talent and potential of teachers in the UK’
Looking around the world shows that lesson observations, “learning walks”, performance-related pay and work scrutiny are all far from essential, writes one history teacher and tutor
19 February 2016
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