By now the Christmas excitement should have started in school – only last week I visited the Christmas Fair at one school …complete with decorated tree, Christmas music, loads of stalls and of course Santa.
Lets get right to the point – the Primary Curriculum is a mess ! …there’s no better way to put it – and successive failed attempts to put things right have just compounded this situation.
Marking – how should you approach it and what is its purpose?
How should you dress to do your job??
It’s a question that I get asked both by teachers and by Headteachers wanting to know just what is appropriate.
Lining up your class is one of the classroom basics that you really need to master early on in your teaching career.
School Rules – we all remember them and all schools have them…but just what is the purpose of them and how effective are they at Primary School level?
Confidence is a great thing to have in life – we look around and seem to see people who have lots of confidence all the time. Yet how do we get that in our lives and more importantly in our chosen profession – TEACHING.
There are so many types of class desks that are used in school and some are easier to use than others.
I really had no idea that this would be a topic for an article – until, that was, I was looking for examples for yesterdays lesson plan article. Continue reading
Lets complete the set by looking at Short Term planning or what I call Personal Planning.