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How Teachers Can Improve Financial Education in Schools

‘How Teachers Can Improve Financial Education in Schools’ The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched a new initiative in November 2021 to promote ‘Financial Education Guidance for Primary Schools in England’. It will act as the co-ordinator of the 10-year UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing, and IFA Magazine says it is “aimed at encouraging conversations…

Written for and published by Teach-Now on 28th January 2022.

Teacher Recruitment: Is it time to change the image of teaching?

‘Teacher Recruitment: Is it time to change the image of teaching?’ With teachers often demanding better conditions, people often complain that teachers are already well-off, thinking they have long holidays. However, teaching is anything but easy and teachers deserve to be paid more. More to the point, they are often working during school holidays...

Written for, and published by Teach-Now on 6th January 2022.

 

 

What are the best ways to support Early Career Teachers?

Teachers often work long hours and feel under pressure, making teacher retention an all-too-common issue. Even long before the Covid-19 pandemic, school standards minister Nick Gibb revealed in 2016, in response to a parliamentary question, that between 2012 and 2017 on average 30 percent of Newly Qualified Teachers gave up the profession, and 13 percent did so within the first year of their career.

Find out the best ways to support early career teachers, Read the complete article.. 

Written for, and published by Teach-Now on 31st August 2021.

The Push for Digital Transformation in Schools

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for change for many organisations, and schools haven’t been left out of the push it has created for digital transformation and online learning. Although now over, school closures “drove multi-generational digital upskilling in schools. A study published on 26th April 2021 by education and assessment company Pearson reveals the extent to which the pandemic has helped to improve tech capabilities among the teaching workforce.”

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Written for, and published by Teach-Now on 12th August 2021.

Managing Teacher Recruitment, Training and Retention

With many schools, teaching unions and teachers expressing concerns about how safe the classroom is – despite reassurance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), an article by Yvonne Williams in the Times Educational Supplement (TES), asks how many teachers have decided to quit their profession. Find out why...

Written for and published by Teach-Now on 7th May 2021.

Teacher role models: Learning from inspirational teachers

Mark Siswick, Executive Headteacher of Chesterton Primary School, in south London, and co-founder of the Wandle Learning Trust, was honoured for services to education in the New Year’s Honours list by being awarded an MBE. The Northern Echo writes: “During the pandemic, he helped to create a national home learning programme, filming more than 100 lessons in phonics and reading to try and stop youngsters from falling behind.”

Read the complete article, written for and published by Teach-Now on 12th April 2023. 

What are the best teaching strategies for digital home learning?

In November 2020 the media reported that OFSTED has found that the home learning experience has been at best patchy, and often failing to be aligned with the classroom curriculum. Remote learning increased in response to the Covid-19 pandemic when schools closed earlier in the year. Even since they opened in September 2020, digital home learning has remained a vital tool for schools to enable them to teach pupils in either self-isolation or who’ve been shielding following a positive PCR test.

Written for and published by Teach-Now.