Could Do Better…

1. The first week
2. Open evening and other shenanigans
3. The grind starts….
4. Performance Management
5. Lesson Observations
6. Bad teachers?
7. Inspirational
8. You made it!
9. Half Term
10. It’s mock time!
11. Parents’ evening
12. OFSTED
13. Post Mock Blues
14. Interesting Questions
15. One week to go…

It’s all over. After 31 years, I’m hanging up my chalk¹ and trying something new. I’m not sure I could ever turn my back on teaching² so I came up with this series of blog posts. Every Friday³ I’ll publish some recollections of my time in teaching.

Whenever you look at teaching on social media, there’s nearly always two types of post. The first is the bashers who basically think teachers are work shy fops who start work at 9 and finish at 3:30 and have lots of holidays. This isn’t even remotely true (google 1265 and teaching hours for a start) but I can’t be arsed to engage with those people. The second type is the teacher ‘martyr’ – you know the type: ‘I was marking till midnight and planning until two’. I don’t really understand that at all. You really are doing something very badly wrong if this is you. Just say no works as equally well with senior leaders as it does with drugs.⁴

So I thought I’d write this blog. Some recollections of teaching – the good, the bad and the funny.

Over the course of this year, the list should grow, so please share this blog with your friends, colleagues, family and even people you hate. If you have any feedback or comments, please put them in the links below.

1. I haven’t used chalk since about 1998, but it’s still something assosciated with teachers. We even have screens we can write on now and everything. ↩︎
2. This is a lie. ↩︎
3. Ok, most Fridays. Maybe some, we’ll see how it goes and whether there’s actually any interest for these witterings. ↩︎
4. I am well aware how ineffective the ‘just say no’ campaign was. ↩︎