If your memories of school involve being scolded by the librarian, a frosty receptionist and passive aggressive teachers, then this TikTok users hilarious impressions will strike a chord. Kyron Hamilton, 23, from Southampton, took to TikTok to share hilarious clips of him poking fun at teachers in different situations, such as school open days, drawing … Read more
GCSEs and A-levels should be replaced with alternative assessments in the long term, teachers have said. School staff now have a ‘golden opportunity’ to stop ‘toxic testing’ amid growing calls to reform the national assessments, the National Education Union’s (NEU) virtual annual conference heard. A motion passed at the conference called for GCSEs and A-levels … Read more
Teachers reject longer school days or summer classes: 98% don’t back proposals being considered by government to help pupils catch up, says survey Two in three teachers say pupils should be supported through sport and exercise Gavin WIlliamson said a change to holidays and longer days are being pondered But 82 per cent of teachers … Read more
Nursery teachers must teach toddlers about ‘white privilege’ so they can learn to ‘develop anti-racist views’, unions say New 128-page guidance has been given as alternative to Government teaching Guidance adds ‘children’s racial prejudice’ is at risk of being ‘reinforced’ Conservative MPs argued that teaching toddlers about white privilege risked ‘becoming some kind of political … Read more
Nursery teachers should be taught about white privilege so toddlers can ‘develop anti-racist views’, say unions Unions and charities want nursery teachers trained so toddlers can be anti-racist Tory politicians said that it was the ‘wrong way to go about’ combating racism MP says it ‘insults white working-class people from disadvantaged backgrounds’ By Mail on … Read more
Stressed pupils ‘are more likely to bully and fight’: Teachers could face an increase in bad behaviour in class after effect of pandemic on children’s mental health, study warns Researchers at three universities found bad behaviour soared when children went back to school after the previous lockdown A rise in tantrums and clinginess was blamed … Read more
Teachers are no more likely to catch coronavirus than their peers, an official report has confirmed amid concerns about schools reopening next week. The Office for National Statistics study of 120 schools in England at the start of the second wave found similar rates of Covid antibodies among school staff and the general public. About 14.6 … Read more
Militant teachers call for strike to disrupt plan for all children to return to school on March 8 Martin Powell-Davies said school chiefs will be acting ‘recklessly’ if they reopen He has urged the National Education Union to join his plans for the strike Argues schools should be reopened in phases and class sizes should … Read more
At the start of the year it looked as though the fiasco of 2020’s exam results, in which thousands of children were unfairly downgraded by an algorithm, would be averted for this year’s cohort. The Education Secretary seemed determined to press ahead with tests, albeit with certain caveats, in order to ensure the fairest possible … Read more
Gavin Williamson’s plan to leave grading to teachers is ‘wide open to abuse’ and will ‘inevitably’ bump up marks because it is like football managers being left to predict their own team’s results, education experts told MailOnline today. The Education Secretary was fire-fighting in the Commons this afternoon over his ‘Wild West’ system for GCSEs … Read more