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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.
Education Prizes 2023
It’s time to recognise the teams, collaborations and individuals making an impact in science education
Getting started
Classroom questions: advice for new teachers
Experts answer questions about planning, pandemics and practicals from trainee, newly qualified and early career teachers
Classroom questions: finding a job and choosing a school
Experts answer questions about choosing the right school 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
Campaigning for the future of practical science teaching
We're calling on the UK government to provide more support for teachers whose training has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on practical skills development. Want to add your voice? We can help you reach out to your MP.
Find out morePractical support and skills development
Practical videos
Practical videos | 14–16 students
Videos of core practical experiments for remote learning, flipped learning or revision.
Practical videos | 16–18 students
Videos of key practical techniques and apparatus for revision, flipped learning or remote teaching.
Teaching after lockdown
Post-lockdown teaching support
Ideas and resources for teachers heading back to the classroom during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic
Tips and ideas for effective practicals
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Managing the classroom and student behaviour
4 ways to boost behaviour management
Set your students up for success
Behaviour management in the chemistry classroom
Managing behaviour beyond the classroom
Targeted strategies to support good classroom behaviour
Establish good learning behaviours in the science lab
Get to know your students better to improve outcomes
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How to win at classroom behaviour
Avoid sliding standards and encourage students to play nicely
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
Classroom questions: cold calling, the back row and key concepts
Experts answer questions about key concepts, socially distanced teaching and assessing understanding from trainee, newly qualified and early career teachers
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
Video recordings
Video recordings of teacher professional development courses
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
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Mental health and wellbeing
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
Saving time and reducing your workload
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
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
Our courses
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