Simple quick tips to impress as an NQT

NQT in class

Robert Aitken, ex-teacher and education technology specialist at ONVU Learning, has some advice for the NQT in your school… Step one is complete; you’ve found an NQT job for next year. It’s only natural to feel a little scared by the prospect. You’ve spent the last year training and now it’s just you at the […]

Incorporating autism into lessons via VR technology

Bilikis Banire, student at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, on incorporating autism in teaching via VR technology

Bilikis Banire is a Ph.D student in computer science and engineering at Qatar Foundation member Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She is currently leading Qatar Foundation’s innovative project to non-invasively measure the attention spans of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Q&A on autism research using VR technology 1. Why are attention spans important? What issues […]

Top 5 iPad teaching tips

Top 5 iPad teaching tips

Craig Smith, Education Sales Manager UK & Ireland, Jamf, has some pointers for using the iPad when teaching to ensure the effectiveness of the technology’s use… Technology is becoming an integral part of the classroom, for students and teachers. However, a recent survey found that 37% of teachers want to use technology in the classroom, but […]

Google for Education partners up with itslearning

Google for Education - a computer keyboard

A partnership between itslearning, Europe’s most widely used learning platform, and Google for Education was  announced recently, enabling teachers to plan, deliver, communicate and engage. The partnership will also allow educators to formatively assess student learning against academic goals, all within one platform, in any location and from any device. The ability to collaborate at any time, […]

Zoom video platform improves communication in education

Zoom video platform - Jane Ross

Jane Ross, head of public sector at the Zoom video platform, discusses how it’s helping schools both in meetings and in the classroom… Could you explain what the Zoom video platform is, and how it helps teachers? Zoom is a unified video-first communications platform that provides remote communications services using cloud computing. It offers software for video, […]

How should heads cope with rising mental health issues within teaching?

mental health Robyn Johnston from the EPG

Robyn Johnstone, Chief Executive Officer of Education Placement Group specialists in teacher recruitment, recently partnered with Education Support Partnership (ESP). ESP is the only UK charity dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of teachers, and its free and confidential 24-hour helpline receives over 7,500 calls a year from education staff who have reached breaking point. […]

Being a Primary Deputy Head, This Much I Know…

Laura Knight When I was 11 years old I knew that I wanted to be a primary school teacher. It wasn’t just the influence of having parents as teachers (they didn’t put me off!) I just knew that I liked doing pretty much everything. I loved learning and I loved the day-to-day variety of being […]

How can schools improve their recruitment and retention of teachers?

  It is common knowledge for everyone with an interest in education that primary and secondary schools across the UK are finding it more and more difficult to attract and retain teaching staff. The route of the problem is evident: numbers of pupils in schools are increasing year on year whilst the DfE’s targets for […]