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Confession #2 I miss teaching!
Is it bad to confess that I miss teaching? I hear all of you ex-teachers shouting “Are you crazy?” but I really do miss it. I am a huge fan of metaphors so the best way to describe me and teaching is as a toxic relationship. When I was in teaching there were such good
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Reasons Why I left teaching: Classroom Confessions Series
Welcome to ‘Classroom Confessions: The Good, Bad, and Ugly’. In this series, I am going to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of teaching as a career sprinkled with hilarious and truthful stories from my teaching career. It’ll make you laugh, want to read on and wonder how the hell teachers do it
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What are Drama Circles?
I’ve been a Drama teacher in the UK for the past 10 years and I’d never heard of a drama circle before (“Where have you been?” I hear the US teachers scream!). It wasn’t until I started looking at other countries’ resources that I found this wonderful gem of a resource! When I learned about
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How to support student’s social skills
Teaching post-pandemic students is not the same. The 2020 lockdown had devastating effects which are still rippling through into today’s classrooms. Due to a lack of socialisation in their formative years, students now lack the key life skills to be able to communicate, problem-solve and empathise with others. The education industry is struggling with the
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How to bring Drama Into your classroom
First of all, let me clarify, this blog post isn’t going to discuss the latest fallings out or who has a crush on who. No, I don’t mean that kind of drama (we have enough of that already in our classrooms!). This blog is going to be about Drama (the subject) which is (in my
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