Teaching is a profession; it is a job. The relationships which we have in the classroom are professional relationships, not personal ones, and as such need to be managed carefully and dispassionately. This can be difficult as the people with whom we spend our days are children and some of them can be challenging, sometimes […]
I recently wrote a post about why I am leaving the teaching profession, and one of the reasons I cited was that I did not feel that the structure currently in place valued older, more experienced teachers. This may be one of the reasons why the profession is being drained of experience, and we now […]
We all know that reciprocal teaching is an effective way of reinforcing knowledge and empowering students. At sixth form particularly there are many opportunities for allowing young people to deepen their expertise and feel like the masters of their subjects that they are trying to become. A positive teacher is wise enough to harness these […]
The Guardian reports that older teachers are leaving the profession in droves and draining it of expertise. These are my reasons: 1. Teachers who don’t want to be managers are under-rated. Teaching is a profession in which an entrant can quickly establish themselves and quickly move up the hierarchy and into management. This is one […]
I think I’ve mentioned before that I started my career in sales and marketing. At that time as part of our sales training we were taught a number of ‘closes’, which should be deployed at the time when the customer was getting near to making a decision and just needed a nudge over the line. […]
