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Would you want this man teaching your child?

A religious studies teacher at a Catholic school in London has been suspended and reported to the police after a string of social media...

Wary of discussing controversial topics?

Curriculum choices are ethical decisions that have moral implications. These become apparent every time there’s a debate about, for...

Responding to challenging remarks and incidents

If you are a new teacher you are about to be confronted by a range of remarks and incidents that will present an intense challenge to...

The ethical and moral senses exercised by AI in teaching.

Our ethical and moral senses will be exercised by AI in teacher-to-child encounters and engagements - exponentially so. Some industries...

Artificial intelligence – the ethics of educating for consciousness

I look at young, new teachers on Instagram and they are sharing lots of ideas and websites for using AI in teaching. Good for them –...

Is smacking children an act of love?

Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, has just rejected the banning of smacking children by their parents in England, saying that he...

'Girl Q' was strip-searched. Did teachers fail in their duty of care?

A fifteen-year old female was ‘strip searched’ after police were called to a school in Hackney, east London on suspicion that the girl...

Should teachers have mandatory COVID jabs?

The row over whether mandatory vaccines should happen to NHS and care workers has been raging for months (though there has been a...

Paul McCartney's nightmares...

Even though it was well over forty years ago, I remember well my first year in teaching. As readers of this blog (or my book) will know,...

The real reason Adele remembers Miss McDonald, her teacher.

The singer-songwriter Adele broadcast a programme – An Audience with Adele - to launch her new album 30 recently. The format has a...

Nervous for the start of term? Just be like an actor…

All teachers usually get nervous, even anxious about going back to school at the beginning of a new term, so it’s not just newly...

Not got a job yet for September? Don’t panic!

I can see that on Twitter lately, there’s a lot of posts from almost hysterical and panicking new teachers nearing the end of their...

Has teaching become puritanical?

This week a teacher has been sacked from his Northumberland school and barred from teaching for three years by the Teaching Regulation...

How to ace your job interview presentation

Most teaching jobs – whether you’re applying for a headship or first position – require candidates to do a presentation. You may be given...

Going for an ECT job interview? What kinds of questions will you be asked?

I did a lot of interviewing over the years. Nervous candidates often answer like a robot to questions they were expecting to come up. But...

To bin or not to bin…? How some people will sift their job applicants.

While the teaching profession has, in my view, been at the forefront of changes in attitudes and behaviour that has brought about a more...

Should teachers ever show images of the Prophet Mohammed? The truth is: Yes, but...

A teacher in Batley, West Yorkshire has been suspended for showing an ‘inappropriate’ image of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils in a...

Does teaching now have a ‘Big Brother’?

Should derogatory comments about pupils and parents get you the sack? A teacher in north Wales has been sacked and suspended from...

Why do so many new teachers leave teaching?

When I was teaching in the 80s, 90s and 00s, teacher recruitment was a chronic problem, especially in inner-city areas. Recruitment is...

Don’t you call me a f**king racist!”

**This article contains strong language. In the current political climate – what with BLM and Harry & Meghan – there’s an awful lot of...

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