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You might set pupils the task of writing a modern version of the text that you are teaching. By setting tasks like this, students will find it easier to relate to the text, and they will get to grips with key themes by working them into their own stories.
Incorporate student-chosen texts Allowing students to choose some of their reading materials can increase engagement and encourage your students to read in their personal time.
Provide your students with a wide variety of texts to choose from and ask them to get into small groups to select a book, poem or play that they want to read and analyse. Students can then break away for some independent reading and return to discuss what they have learned from the text so far.
When this strategy is successful, students can delve deeply into a text that suits their interests, develop their analytical skills, and have immersive discussions with their fellow pupils. Create an inspirational working environment Developing a positive and inspirational learning environment is crucial. Teachers should encourage their students to discover new genres and authors while also showing praise for their good work throughout the year.
A positive learning environment is one where pupils are recognised for their learning efforts and progress. Be flexible with your lesson plans Before dynamic lesson planning became popular, English lessons would normally involve a teacher dictating at the front of a class with students diligently taking notes.
Dynamic lesson plans ought to be adaptable, promoting interaction between teachers and students and embracing the different personalities and learning styles within the class. A top tip is to start your lessons off with some collaborative learning and have your students discuss a text in groups. After some time, introduce some independent thinking by asking pupils to collect their own personal perspectives on what the class learned.
Finally, students should report both these viewpoints and conclusions back to the class. This way, you will have incorporated a variety of learning methods into your plan and increased the chances of each student staying engaged throughout the lesson. Are you looking for your next teaching role? If you are ready to embark on a new English teaching experience at a school near you, then Teaching Personnel is the place to start.
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Excellent teaching requires excellent time management skills. Day-to-day life as a teacher can be daunting, but the trick is to find the right strategies to manage your workload and time. These 8 tips should get you started. Prioritise your workload Time management is crucial for teachers.
Without prioritising, not only will you fail to use your time effectively but you also risk sleepwalking into burnout. Before knowing how to cut your workload time, try and number your objectives in rank order. You'll be surprised at the difference it makes! Find your system for success Grizzled veterans of teaching know that you need to develop a personal system for sequencing all aspects of the day - marking, feedback, tidying and more. Here are some tips to that end: Find out which aspects of school time you can control.
In some schools, teachers can change the scheduling of classes and slot in extracurricular activities that take students away from the classroom. Plan for smooth transitions between lessons. Always try to have materials close by for each lesson or activity. Make sure homework extends what's been covered in class.
Improve student attendance. Make a proactive effort to impress upon pupils and parents the importance of good attendance 3. Teaching assistants, support workers and pupils themselves can handle many classroom tasks and save you enormous amounts of time. Learn to use these valuable helpers. TAs are crucial in conducting small group work and providing individualised attention to the pupils who need it. They can make instructional games and resources, keep bulletin boards current, monitor seating plans, read stories to the class, and assist you in testing.
TAs can also help with clerical and housekeeping duties. Their help with school trips, special activities, and class parties is often indispensable. A creative approach to imagining and organising your space can boost your productivity and that of your pupils.
Look after yourself Your health matters, both for you and for your pupils. The amount of sleep you get, your diet, your level of exercise and your ability to unwind and relax properly will all ultimately dictate how much energy and enthusiasm you can bring to your class.
Cut down on marking There are many ways to reduce an onerous marking workload without skimping on the need to challenge your pupils. You might also consider trying out fun, formative assessments like mini-quizzes that students can self-mark or can have marked by their peers with your supervision. Behaviour management Dealing with challenging pupil behaviour can chew up a lot of teaching time without the right training, especially when your school does not have dedicated pastoral or behavioural staff.
A classroom is a space where all students have the right to learn in a safe and secure way. Our recent article has some handy pointers for teaching assistants that should also be pertinent for the class teacher. Unfortunately, fears about being seen as incapable can make asking for help a difficult endeavour for many people. If that chimes with you, here are some good ways to go about requesting help. When teachers can direct their time more efficiently, everyone benefits.
Teaching Personnel exists to help educators thrive in their jobs. If you want advice and guidance on your career, get in touch today. These top time management tips will help you beat burnout and become a more efficient teacher. Try not to shriek too loudly. Yet when the call comes, even the hardiest Senior Leader can turn as white as a ghost. But remember, the only thing to fear in an Ofsted inspection is fear itself. A confident school full of teachers carrying their heads high will satisfy even the most imperious inspector.
The trick? Stay as cool as the abominable snowman and the danger will pass. At the end of the day, they want the same thing as you. Not even H. Lovecraft could have imagined the fathoms of dread closing over your head right now. Luckily, teachers tend to be a flexible bunch.
Think over the curriculum and find where you left off at the last lesson, and the class will be your oyster. A pupil correcting your spelling The horror! Some neuron has misfired in your brain and led you to make a clanger of a spelling mistake on the whiteboard.
The best tactic in this situation, mortifying though it may feel, is to laugh, acknowledge it and move on. Congratulate the bright young stickler for their keen eye, correct the error and jump back into the flow of the lesson.
Being found on social media Teachers have a right to a private life of their own outside the classroom. Teaching Personnel would advise all teachers to make sure their privacy settings are configured tightly across all their social media profiles.
This detailed guide from the NEU to online conduct as a teacher is a must-read for any teacher with a digital presence. Bumping into pupils outside of school What could be more relaxing than a glass of wine with a few friends down the local after a long week making the world a better place?
That boy passing by the window of the pub looks dreadfully familiar. Could it be…oh no, oh heavens! The gangly teenager who usually sits before you in a tie and blazer is now gawking from across a pane of glass.
Ghosts and ghouls are certainly spooky in books and movies. Yet nothing in the life of a teacher is insurmountable. Teaching Personnel is here for every teacher at every stage in their career with opportunities to work, develop, learn and flourish. If you need our help with anything at all, just get in touch.
Steel yourself for Halloween with 6 stories that will curdle the blood of any teacher. Ever since the Covid pandemic first shut schools, the educational community has been deeply concerned about its effects on the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. This funding package is designed to make high-impact, small-group private tutoring accessible for the poorest students. What catch-up funding is available?
What is the National Tutoring Programme? The National Tutoring Programme is a subsidy that allows the vast majority of English schools to provide targeted, small-group tutoring to their most disadvantaged pupils. As an educational initiative, it is unprecedented in its scale and reach. How does the NTP work? The NTP has been structured to give six million pupils a hour package of intensive tutoring each. Schools will specify the subjects and age cohorts they wish to benefit from this tutoring.
Lessons will predominantly take place in groups of three, though smaller group sizes and one-on-one tutoring can be arranged if needed. Teaching Personnel is proud to have been selected as a Tuition Partner for the second year in a row. This individual, typically a graduate, will help the Senior Leadership Team identify the support pupils need, and work with the class teacher to provide it.
Strand 3: School-Led Tutoring This strand of the NTP, newly introduced for , provides a greater level of choice for schools in how they run their catch-up programme. Schools can hire from outside the list of approved Tuition Partners, allowing them to draw from existing or former members of their workforce or to hire new staff.
The grant is ring-fenced and can only be spent on the staffing costs of tuition. Schools should now have received the first instalment from the DfE. Find out more about the new School-Led Tutoring route by reading this comprehensive explainer. Is my school eligible to receive this funding? All state-funded schools in England are eligible to receive catch-up funding for the National Tutoring Programme.
This includes special schools and Alternative Provision settings. How can I take advantage of the NTP? Having been selected again as Tuition Partners for the second year, we have expanded the range of our services. Our experienced tutors are currently working in schools through both the Tuition Partners and School-Led Tutoring funding strands. Their expertise and diligence are critical in helping in-need pupils catch up after Covid.
Help vulnerable pupils catch up. Answering schools' common questions on how to take advantage of special funding to help pupils catch up after the Covid pandemic. Misbehaviour among pupils is as challenging for teaching assistants as it is for teachers. Dealing with behavioural problems is the responsibility of everyone who works in a school. Behaviour is a complex topic. There can be several reasons why a student misbehaves, and a range of strategies to deal with the behaviour.
The past two years have highlighted the importance of teaching assistants and their crucial part in creating an optimal classroom environment. Here are some of the most effective strategies to help teaching assistants manage classroom behaviour. Observe and analyse Teaching assistants must keep a keen eye on their classrooms and flag up any issues that the teacher may have missed. When managing classroom behaviour, it can be useful to conduct classroom observations that focus on how particular pupils are behaving.
This will give yourself and the teacher a better understanding of individual children and which ones need the most attention. You may be tasked with recording information, ideally over several lessons, such as: how often certain behaviour occurs e.
You can also identify if there were any actions that made that behaviour stop. Good discipline is more often based in reinforcing positive behaviour. If a normally disruptive child displays a positive attitude in class, praising their work ethic could really help them stay on the right track. That positive reinforcement may very well motivate other students to behave in the same way too. Use calming language and clear instructions Communication is among the most important skills for a teaching assistant.
The way you communicate with students and the tone of your voice are key to the success of your behaviour management strategies. Ensure that you communicate with your students in a calm tone of voice as shouting can often indicate a loss of control. Work with the teacher to establish what the expectations of your class are and relay your rules in a clear and concise manner. If there is a particular task that the class needs to complete, explain it in the simplest terms possible and check with individual students to ensure they understand what they are doing.
Hide this message. Home Brexit Brexit: business guidance. Part of Brexit. Print this page. In some schools in England, QTS is not a legal requirement: within the English state school sector, academy schools and free schools can employ teachers without QTS outside the English state school sector, private schools or independent schools can employ teachers without QTS.
Teachers who trained in England When you finish your training, your initial teacher training provider will tell us about your results. Teachers trained or recognised in Northern Ireland or Scotland If you trained in either Northern Ireland or Scotland, you must apply for QTS if you intend to take up a teaching post in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
It should take between 2 and 4 weeks to process your application. Recognition of QTS for teachers who want to teach overseas To find out if the country where you plan to work recognises QTS , and whether they require any further teaching qualifications, check with the organisation that regulates teachers in that country. Qualified teacher learning and skills QTLS If you are an experienced post teacher and have QTLS status and membership of the Society for Education and Training , you may be eligible to work as a qualified teacher in schools in England.
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