How to become a Teaching Assistant Posted on 25 July 2017 by David NCC Home Learning in Career Teaching assistants are important in the modern classroom. They provide support to the class teacher as well as helping, supporting and challenging pupils within the learning environment. Here's helpful advice to help you become a TA... Read More...
6 Things to help us be Happier Posted on 21 July 2017 by Hanna Beech, Phase Leader, Year 4 Teacher, Wellbeing Co-ordinator in Wellbeing ‘Happiness depends upon ourselves'. Here are six things to consider trying when embarking on an emotional MOT this summer holiday. Read More...
Play is a Powerful Thing Posted on 17 July 2017 by Sarah - EYFS Teacher in Career Early Years Foundation Stage Teacher, Sarah, shares her experience about how play is central to learning, brain development and creativity. Play is a powerful learning tool for all children and adults and without play, learning is significantly poorer. Read More...
The Big Butterfly Count Posted on 14 July 2017 by Becky Millen - Kent-Teach in Resources Take part in the Big Butterfly Count between 20th July and the 12th August 2018 to help conserve butterflies and moths for future generations. Here's how you can join in... Read More...
5 Reasons Why Teachers should be on Twitter Posted on 12 July 2017 by Rebecca Taylor - Kent-Teach Advisor in Career I find Twitter an excellent and varied source of information; you can discover and read popular topics that trend across the Twitter community as well as search for specific topics you want to learn about. Twitter helps keep me in the loop on all sorts and I am sure many avid Twitter users will agree it is a great platform that enables you to collaborate with people of similar interests. Read More...
Rapport - The Greatest Tool for Teaching Posted on 11 July 2017 by Hanna Beech, Phase Leader, Year 4 Teacher, Wellbeing Co-ordinator in General Rapport. We do our best as teachers to build it with our pupils. Yet do we always prioritise it highly enough? I have found that, in the classroom, rapport is one of the greatest tools for teaching I can utilise. Read More...
6 Tips to Help You Stay Healthy Posted on 5 July 2017 by Rebecca Taylor - Kent-Teach Advisor in Wellbeing It can be difficult to know what a healthy diet is as recommendations seem to change from time to time. To support Health Information Week, below are 6 basic guidelines to help you stay on top form... Read More...
Teaching children to be resilient - The 4th R… Posted on 4 July 2017 by Maria - KS1 Teacher in Career KS1 Teacher, Maria, shares her teaching experience and the reasons resilience in children is so important. Here's how she taught her class the 4th R... Read More...
8 Benefits of Listening to Music Posted on 29 June 2017 by Rebecca Taylor - Kent-Teach Advisor in Wellbeing It has been proven that music dramatically helps improve people’s mental wellbeing and boost physical health. Here are 8 benefits reflecting why we should use music more and more in the classroom... Read More...
8 Tips to Fit Exercise Around Teaching Posted on 28 June 2017 by Cressida Fitzsimons - Kent Buns 'N' Guns in Wellbeing With all those incredible benefits, much of which I think apply to the profession, it's hard to see why exercise isn't taking a bigger stage in the teacher wellbeing question! But, we've all been there, how do we fit it in?! Here are my suggestions... Read More...