A Principal’s View of Reflective Practice Only 55% of Teachers feel supported in their work, according to TES. In this video, we explore how reflective practice can help to focus on areas for improvement and so achieve better outcomes for students.
Reflecting to improve: How one teacher transformed their classroom management with the support of a mentor When Katy*, a secondary schoolteacher, was given a low grade for the first time in a lesson observation, she was devastated. But, thanks to some helpful mentoring from her colleague, Chris*, and the use of reflective teaching and classroom […]
Averting a second pandemic “Many of our teachers aren’t OK. But we need them to be OK,” says Teresa Peters, a leading executive coach at Accelerator Coaching. In fact, recent research by the NEU on Teacher Wellbeing shows that 82% of teachers say they’re feeling stressed by work. Furthermore, Education Support, a charity dedicated to […]
4 teachers share their personal tips for positive wellbeing All teachers know that the demands of the job can make it tough on your wellbeing, and putting aside time to look after yourself is rarely first on the to-do list. But there are so many reasons why maintaining teacher wellbeing can – and should – […]
The positive steps senior leaders can take to improve teacher wellbeing “It’s so important that the leadership in schools recognises the need to address teachers’ wellbeing,” says Scott Stanyer, Associate Assistant Headteacher at a secondary school in Luton. But the good news, he adds, is that the issue is being addressed and more openly discussed, […]
Make Reflective Teaching a cultural thing in your school Some more thoughts from Selwyn Thompson, Duke’s Secondary School, Northumberland Church of England Academy Trust. He talks about how ReflectiveTeacher supports schools in making reflective practice a cultural thing. I think another thing about the reflective teacher as a, as an app, as a series of processes […]
When Selwyn Thompson, from Duke’s Secondary School in Ashington dropped by our stand last week at #SaaShow21, we asked him to share his thoughts on Reflective Teacher and how it is supporting reflective practise