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Middle leaders work in the engine room shovelling coal, while simultaneously trying to steer the ship

Teachers may as well sit back and relax, the new accountability system has already decided your teaching fate

I don’t fully buy into the idea that because a subject is intrinsically interesting, all a teacher need do is talk about it to inspire students, writes one teacher

Teachers must not be afraid to allow their students to express their political opinions openly – protecting free speech is going to be one of the profession’s biggest challenges in the decades to come, writes one teacher

Stop (for lunch), collaborate (with colleagues) and listen (to your elders): one experienced teacher offers 10 pieces of advice that he would love to have received when he was a newly qualified teacher

If you don’t want teaching to be your life, but prefer it to be your love, get out of Britain, but expect to travel if you want to keep in touch with the profession as a whole