Authors

History teacher Tom Rogers tells the tale of two teachers, both with different approaches to workload, and both losing out because of it

To stop our NQTs from fleeing the classroom, we must offer words of encouragement, meet with them regularly and reassure them that they won’t get everything right first time around, writes Tom Rogers

School trips to historical sites and live re-enactments are crucial to bringing the subject alive for students, writes one head of department

Let’s redirect the pupil premium cash towards educating parents and working on the recruitment crisis: both would do more for deprived children than continuing with a policy that has failed

It’s the elephant in education’s room: teachers have much less of an impact on pupil attainment than we think. If we take this on board then we can adopt a much more positive approach to assessing teaching, writes Thomas Rogers

A lot of nonsense is chatted by lay folk about the teachers and their long holidays. What they don’t know is that without them, teachers’ jobs would be unsustainable