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Like any new teacher, you will be keen to make a prompt start with your planning for the new academic year. However, at this point, I urge you to stop. Taking time to ask your new departmental colleagues key questions before you begin and making the time to build your professional networks within and beyond your school will be a real investment. In this article, I outline three ways in which your teaching career could be improved by collaboration.
I can’t begin to estimate the number of times I have written the same feedback on a student’s work – time and time again. Other teachers tell me that I am not alone. But help is at hand from the research evidence. For example, the Education Endowment Foundation’s A Marked Improvement report distinguishes between mistakes and misunderstanding.
An example of question we have had on the site recently came from a teacher in a London secondary school: ‘What strategies are there for early identification of possible disengaged pupils and potential NEETs for alternative provision?’ (In the UK, NEET stands for students not in education, employment or training – see our English educational jargon dictionary for more info).
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