Here’s your round-up of practical and useful guides for schools that Tes has published in the past seven days.  

Teaching in the time of coronavirus

• Can sewage show us if pupils are Covid super-spreaders?
• How effective could face masks be in schools?
• What you legally have to do for self-isolating pupils
• Mock exams 2020: 5 ways to prepare
• 5 ways you can still run your school nativity this year
• What teachers really think about teaching during Covid
• Poetry Together 2020: how to get involved

General teaching topics

• GCSE revision: Saturday school? No thanks
• Revealed: GCSE exam dates and timetables 2021
• How getting the doodle bug can help your mental health
• Why relationships matter for motivation
• 3 reasons why your school timetable is wrong
• Why our exams aren’t working for SEND students
• 5 steps to boosting reading at key stage 1

Recruitment, wellbeing and CPD

• MA or NPQ: Which qualification is right for international leaders?
• 5 things supply teachers should know about their rights 
• WATCH: A new teacher’s guide to getting proper CPD
• Life beyond the international honeymoon period 

For those with a subscription to the magazine

• Is your pedagogy prejudiced?
• Why you might want to keep your display board
• How to deal with a coronavirus space invader
• How to make visual communication tools inclusive
• Fixating on attachment ‘will improve behaviour’
• Connection is all the more important while distancing
• Tips for leading on behaviour
• Are you in the zone for a classroom redesign?