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Support for early career and student teachers
Whether you’re taking your first steps in training or launching your career as a qualified teacher, get the support you need to thrive.
Discover free curriculum-linked resources, teaching tips and inspiration to use in your classroom, or explore our professional development courses and find support in your area. From practical skills to subject knowledge, from lesson planning to behaviour management – we’re here for you.
Getting started
Everything you need to succeed in your first year of teaching
From setting up your classroom to planning lessons via emergency snacks, this is how to prepare
Classroom questions: advice for new teachers
Experts answer questions about planning, pandemics and practicals from trainee, newly qualified and early career teachers
The 10 things you need to know as a trainee teacher
How to nail the most important things from the off
Support in your area
Regional support
Our Regions team support all teachers of chemistry and science across the UK and Ireland. Find out more about our work to help teachers provide their students with an excellent chemistry education
Practical support and skills development
Practical videos
Practical videos | 14–16 years
Videos of core practical experiments for flipped learning, remote teaching or revision
Practical videos | 16–18 years
Videos of key practical techniques and apparatus for revision, flipped learning or remote teaching
Teaching science skills
Teaching science skills
Discover teaching strategies and classroom activities to help your learners develop essential scientific skills, from literacy to constructing hypotheses and risk assessment.
Tips and ideas for effective practicals
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Managing the classroom and student behaviour
Behaviour management in the chemistry classroom
The challenges of managing behaviour in the chemistry lab
Get to know your students better to improve outcomes
Targeted strategies to support good classroom behaviour
Establish good learning behaviours in the science lab
Managing behaviour beyond the classroom
Set your students up for success
4 ways to boost behaviour management
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Successfully stop disruptive behaviour in its tracks
Use these tips to achieve subtle but effective behaviour management when students are pushing the boundaries
When things go wrong in the classroom, a video can help
Practical demo gone wrong in the chemistry lab? Here’s how to save the day
No words necessary: the classroom hand signals you need to know
15 essential gestures to control students’ behaviour and save your voice when teaching from the front
Developing subject and pedagogical content knowledge
Explore our professional development courses
On-demand online
Self-guided teacher professional development courses
Live online
Free, remotely-taught teacher professional development sessions
How to build pedagogical content knowledge
How research translates into classroom practice
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Common questions and challenges
Classroom questions: Reducing teacher talk, beating NQT exhaustion and boosting test performance
Classroom questions: finding a job and choosing a school
Classroom questions: making chemistry accessible to all and remote teaching
Classroom questions: cold calling, the back row and key concepts
Classroom questions: fears, units and chat
Classroom questions: advice for new teachers
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Mental health and well-being
How to succeed in your teacher training – and enjoy it
How to not only survive the initial teacher training year, but to thrive
How can an educational psychologist help with teacher mental health?
Educational psychologist Katy Goymour gives her advice on stress management
Asking for help
Teachers report being stressed and not receiving enough guidance about their mental health. Is compulsory counselling the solution?
Lesson planning
How to plan a brilliant lesson as a trainee teacher
Wondering how to write a lesson plan? Use this template to create logical lessons and improve learning outcomes
Using cognitive science for more effective lesson planning
Take advantage of how the mind works and improve learning outcomes
Are misconceptions on your RADAAR?
How to use the EEF’s RADAAR framework to help you better consider misconceptions when planning your lessons and curriculums
Providing effective feedback
3 ways to provide effective feedback
Use these principles to ensure your feedback is timely and helps your students succeed
A new approach to marking
Reduce your marking time and increase student’s engagement with your feedback
One simple way to provide quick and effective online feedback
Use objective-based marking to save time and engage students with online feedback
Find support when you need it
Get support from … Teaching Staff Trust
Helping you through financial pressures
Get support from … ASE
Helping science teachers and technicians gain job satisfaction, and helping department heads to understand their teams
Get support from … Education Support
From a free helpline to peer support groups, Education Support is dedicated to improving teachers’ mental health and well-being
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Upcoming events
Events
Our events for teachers range from small, informal resources sessions, careers sessions and curriculum contextualisation workshops to larger events such as teacher conferences. We also run competitions for students to put their chemistry skills into action
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Teacher PD
Expand your skills, knowledge, expertise and confidence. Take a comprehensive approach to professional development with our well-rounded programme of training and learning that aims to support every aspect of your chemistry teaching
Practicals, lesson plans and more
Resources
Browse our resources designed to support your teaching of chemistry to primary, secondary and higher education students. Including our collections on analytical and practical chemistry