All Initial teacher training articles
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IdeasHow 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
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Q&A
Classroom questions: Reducing teacher talk, beating NQT exhaustion and boosting test performance
Experts answer questions about reducing teacher talk, NQT exhaustion and helping pupils whose test performance doesn’t match their classroom understanding
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Feature
Using cognitive science for more effective lesson planning
Take advantage of how the mind works and improve learning outcomes
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Q&A
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
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Feature
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
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Interview
‘Structure and bonding really gets to the heart of chemistry’
Meet Niki Kaiser, a chemistry teacher inspiring others to embrace evidence-based teaching practices
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Q&A
Classroom questions: making chemistry accessible to all and remote teaching
Experts answer questions about making remote live lessons smooth and interactive from trainee, newly qualified and early career teachers
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Opinion
Judge us on our classroom teaching
Don’t prejudge this year’s NQTs just because their teacher training experience was different to yours, pleads Abigail Marsh
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Feature
How to succeed in your teacher training – and enjoy it
How to not only survive the initial teacher training year, but to thrive
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Q&A
Classroom questions: advice for new teachers
Experts answer questions about planning, pandemics and practicals from trainee, newly qualified and early career teachers
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Ideas
Trainee teachers: how to learn to teach during lockdown
5 tips for continuing your ITT during the coronavirus crisis
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Feature
The hidden benefits of subject knowledge enhancement courses
Designed to boost teacher numbers, how do they benefit the teachers themselves?
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Analysis
Deployment, development and pay crucial for science teacher retention
Exploring the principles set to increase the quantity and quality of science teachers
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Opinion
Teaching workloads and pay don’t add up
A bursary and training support eased my transition into teaching, but the work-life balance after two years made me look elsewhere
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Feature
Could Irish change cause ripples elsewhere?
John O’Donoghue investigates transformations on the horizon for Ireland’s education system
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News
Hefty trainee teacher bursaries get mixed reception
The Department for Education has announced substantial new bursaries for teacher training – but some are larger than others
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Analysis
Just passing through: why young teachers are leaving the profession
New teachers are quitting at an alarming rate. David Fulton explores the reasons
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Opinion
I’m a trainee teacher … and I’m actually enjoying myself
Our secret trainee talks about their first experiences of teacher training
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Primary discoveries
David Overton and Tina Overton investigate a collaboration between chemistry students and teaching students to deliver lessons in primary schools
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