Starting out: Like many teachers, I came into the profession with a sense of nervous excitement, full of ideas, a strong desire to ‘make a difference’ and a playful energy. It all started well. In my PGCE I learnt that; ‘teachers individually and collectively, have to reappraise their teaching in response to the changing needs […]
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Working during the pandemic as a full-time primary class teacher and being a parent with two young children, I have come to reassess these important roles and the essential connections between them. This feels especially relevant since my daughter’s and son’s bubbles were recently sent home due to cases of CV19 in the setting. As
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I found my 5 year old daughter attempting to read a book yesterday. Naturally I was delighted so I sat down with her. She kept stumbling across words though. Not wanting her to give up or ‘fail’ I automatically and instinctively offered her my strategies as a teacher to help her. Only she would look
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