I Will Survive! Managing Your Workload As An NQT #3

Surviving the Summer Term At the beginning of this academic year I posted a short article each day in the first week of the autumn term.  These were basically an expanded form of a list of pointers I would give to Newly Qualified Teachers in my department as they were starting off.  It’s very easy [...]

Carrot and Stick

Recently I received this question on the blog from Giulia: Hi James, interesting views and good to have the updates. One of my teachers is having problems 
with discipline and classroom management with some boys that tend to be distracted and distract
 others around them. Could you give us any tips to overcome this in [...]

Coping Strategies

For target-language teaching to be successful, it depends on at least two things: that the teacher knows how to do it and that the teacher trains the pupils in how to cope in a lesson where their native language is not used.  If either of these ingredients is missing or botched, it just won’t work! [...]

To Get You Started… NQT Day #4

Things you need to find out today: Homework  How is homework to be marked?  And how is that marking to be recorded?  One of the things that you will be assessed on as part of your NQT programme is that you keep proper records and that you can use that assessment information in your planning [...]

To Get You Started… NQT Day #3

Things you need to find out today: Designated person  Who is the designated person in your school who you have to inform if a pupil discloses something to you which needs passing on?  Remember never to guarantee confidentiality to a pupil. Things you need to do today: If you touch it, deal with it   Paperwork [...]