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Teacher Wellbeing & Workload
Practical ways for teachers and staff to manage workload, protect wellbeing and enjoy the job.
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17 Ways Teachers Can Take Stock After the First Full Week of Teaching in September
The first full week back in September tells you a lot. You begin to see which routines are working, which classes need a different…
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17 Ways to Actually Switch Off From School When You Get Home
You leave the classroom. You leave the building. But sometimes your head stays at school. The lesson that went badly. The email you need…
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17 Reasons Teachers Are Especially Vulnerable to Becoming ‘Twitchy’ Around Tech
Teaching was already a job built around interruption long before email, Teams and smartphones arrived. You are answering questions, watching behaviour, changing explanations, dealing…
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17 Realistic Ways Teachers Can Spend Less Time Staring at a Screen
Teaching now involves a huge amount of screen time. Emails, Teams, registers, data systems, lesson planning, reports, PowerPoints, online homework and safeguarding systems all…
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17 Ways to Stop School Stealing Your Last Weekend Before Term Starts
The weekend before teaching starts properly can disappear very quickly. You open the laptop to “just sort Monday” and suddenly you are making seating…
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17 Ways to Feel Less Overwhelmed After INSET Days
You arrive at INSET feeling reasonably organised and leave with six new priorities, three policy changes, a pile of notes and several things you…
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17 Ways to Stop Reinventing the Wheel When Planning Lessons
Good lesson planning is not about producing something new every time you teach. It is about choosing the right material, adapting it intelligently and…
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Mark Smarter, Not Longer: 17 Ways to Reduce Marking Without Reducing Feedback
Marking can quietly take over a teacher’s evenings. A set of 30 books may contain several pages of work in each one. A test…
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17 Ways David Allen’s Getting Things Done Can Help Secondary School Teachers
A teacher’s workload is not difficult only because there is too much to do. It is difficult because so many tasks arrive unexpectedly. A…
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17 Ways Teachers Can Apply Daniel Chidiac’s Stop Letting Everything Affect You to School Life
Teaching can be emotionally difficult in ways that are not always visible. A brief email can occupy your thoughts for an entire evening. One…
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17 Ways Teachers Can Apply Mel Robbins’ Let Them Theory to School Staff Culture
Schools are complex workplaces. Teachers work alongside colleagues with different personalities, priorities, communication styles, ambitions and views about education. Even in a supportive school,…
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17 Ways Schools Can Make Flexible Working Work in Teaching
Flexible working in teaching is often misundimply mean allowing teachers to work from home or giving everyone a four-day week. It can include part-time…
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17 Ways to Adjust to a New Timetable at the Start of the School Year
A new timetable can make even an experienced teacher feel like a beginner again. Familiar routines disappear, classes move rooms, free periods fall at…
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17 Realistic Health Habits for Exhausted Teachers
Teacher wellbeing advice can sometimes sound as if it was written by someone who has never done a wet lunch duty, taught Year 9…