Tag: First Year Teacher
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Finding the Holy Grail: ECT Work-Life Balance
Teaching is not a career known for its balance: working terms are short and intense, and the holidays are relatively long and almost totally empty of official working duties. The message threads on your phone are a working history of this: your mid-term self is ‘Not free. Sorryy. [Insert classic teacher reason]’ or your holiday…
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Hello, new teachers
I’m writing for new teachers who are trying to find a work-life balance and some teaching ideas while they’re head-in-hands looking at the cursor flashing on the title slide for tomorrow’s ‘inspiring…motivating’ first-period lesson. Maybe you’ve made your unmarked papers into a tunnel: a creative solution, yes, but you still have to go through them.…
My Early career teaching 