In March, Damian Hinds announced that the DfE were going to implement measures to reduce teacher workload in an attempt to head off t...

For a book based around the responses to a survey of around 4000 teachers which revealed that 57% wouldn't recommend teaching to a fam...

In her book 'The Four Tendencies' author Gretchen Rubin outlines four ways in which people respond to expectations. According to...

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/fix-workload-put-ministers-school-leaders-policy-wonks-consultants "Teache...

Unless you completed your teacher training in a parallel universe, where everything is perfect, you will have picked up on the fact that “wo...

Are you forever striving to teach flashbulb lessons? The ones that wow the students and leave any observers dazzled? They're usually t...

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SchoolWell , a school staff wellbeing directory, asked me a few questions about wellbeing, marking, Twitter, reading and #OptimisticEd; the...

I have been known to write about, and comment upon, wellbeing (possible understatement). My interest in reducing workload - my o...

In recent conversations with teachers I have had my eyes opened to a world of pain that some of our colleagues are being subjected to. Whils...

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 Thanks to February I've racked up a fair few blog posts now and in looking back over them I can see there are definite recurring themes...

The word 'autonomy' comes from the Greek 'auto' meaning "self" and 'nomos' meaning "law", so t...

Tonight is date night. I say that as if it's a regular fixture in our calendar but it's not. It should be though. My wife is a sta...

If teachers could save time on their everyday routine tasks then inevitably there could be more life in the balance. I love finding time...

The year I began my requested move to year 6 was the year marking and feedback became high on the agenda. With the knowledge that book ...

These days plugging your phone in to charge must rank up there with brushing teeth when it comes to bedtime routine. You wouldn't want...

It all started when, every week, an unemployed friend would ask me how my week had been, to which I invariably replied 'Busy!' . ...

Some might say I labour under the illusion that, as a teacher, one doesn't have to work at the weekends. Except it's not an illus...

Teachers’ workload : two words bound to get any teacher on their soapbox. Articles abound on the issue. The DfE even challenged us abo...