Whether you’re a teacher excited by the prospect of meeting new people and exploring new schools, or an administrator handling teacher shortages, supply teaching agencies in Birmingham are the best way to place talented, confident teachers in the schools that need them most. These agencies have extensive knowledge and the ideal expertise to find the proper teacher for each position. Many reasons exist why a school might need a supply teacher. Whether teachers are absent due to illness, holiday, or any other causes, administrators must have a reliable and trustworthy alternative. Working with supply teaching agencies in Birmingham guarantees that the new teachers will be competent and in compliance with all regulations. For teachers, joining a supply teaching agency has many benefits. Long term teachers can suffer from burn out,... Read More »
Once you have completed your teaching degree at university, you then have the task of trying to find the teaching job that you have longed for. There are so many varieties of teaching jobs from public and private schools, to ages and ability. Choosing which sector you want to go in to is probably something that you have already considered but it may be that initially you have to apply for other jobs that may not be exactly what you are looking for. Do not be disheartened by this as many teachers find that they actually really enjoy working in a different area to where they wanted to be. Location is something that is important. You will need to work out travel time and costs as you will be required... Read More »
With computers, tablets and phones becoming ever increasingly popular and used in most of our daily lives, it makes sense that schools are teaching pupils about these forms of technology and how they can assist us. There is a lot of educational material available in terms of apps and such like that can be used in a classroom situation. From recent studies, I have found out that most school now have a few Ipads or other Tablets available for the children to use. These are normally pre loaded with educational games and research aids and other content is restricted. Children are becoming use to using touch screen IT and even preschool children seem to have grasped the touch and slide concept that many of these gadgets use. IT has vastly... Read More »
One of the frightening challenges that newly qualified teachers, and sometimes experienced ones too, is classroom management issues and lack of control. Disruptive behaviour can pose a real threat to the learning and teaching process and often times it turns a teacher’s life into a living nightmare which very often can even lead to a teacher giving up their job. I have come up with a few handy tips to keep the classroom in order: 1: Make sure that the children are interested and kept busy. When children become bored this is often when they play up and start causing disruption. 2: Be fair and consistent. This means making sure that any punishment is adequate and not over the top. The levels of behaviour expected should remain consistent along with... Read More »
The set system in school is aimed to teach student in one group who are at the same level as their classmates, and for some subjects it can work, yet that’s not usually the case for mathematics. Mathematics is a subject that doesn’t usually rank as an individual favourite, and it can be seen by many students as the least enjoyable subject, and the set system could be something to do with that. Students who are in low sets are often in the ‘foundation’ category. This means that they cannot achieve A’s or B’s because their paper does not allow them to do so, and this shouldn’t be the case. Maths is often broken up into stages and if you don’t understand two or three stages then you can’t progress,... Read More »
