This section will contain a range of practical resources for teachers
and school leaders. It will include the following:
Briefings
Essential information about some of the hot topics in education
today, in the style of my book Essential Briefings for Teachers. If you would like to suggest a briefing you
would like to see included, please get in touch.
Classroom resources
Ideas, ready to use lesson plans and a host of other useful
tools for teachers. If there are any particular resources you would like to see featured do get in touch.
The first tool is shown below - it helps you to think about the
importance of planning to your work and that of your students.
TOOL 1: PLANNING FOR SUCCESS
Study the graphic above which suggests a key reason why planning is central to the work of
all teachers, and to their students.
a) Make a list of all the ways in which planning is important in your work as a teacher.
b) Now do the same for your students.
c) How can you help your students to plan better, using examples from your own work as a teacher?
d) Are there any aspects of your planning that you would like to improve? Which aspects are
these?
e) Work with a like-minded colleague to consider how you could address this aspect of your
work as a teacher. When you recognise constraints consider what could be done at the classroom, whole school or local authority
level to address these, and thereby improve your planning?
f) Encourage your students to be reflective about their own planning skills, by finding a way
of building this in to a lesson. If you identify common training needs for students, this could be the start of some important
whole school work on this subject.
