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Teaching is one of the most important job roles in the world. Teachers hold the responsibility of shaping young people’s minds. To be a successful teacher, you will need to engage in continuous professional development which is essential in keeping up with up-to-date teaching practices and learning patterns. This article explores why it's useful for teachers to consistently engage in professional growth.

Children with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) can struggle in the classroom, and they tend to have more hurdles to overcome than other students. ADHD impacts a student’s ability to concentrate, sit still and control their impulses. All of this can make it difficult for a student to learn and grow academically, meaning many children with ADHD fall behind. Luckily, there are things that teachers can do to make the classroom a more productive and inclusive place for those with ADHD.

A lot of teachers feel as though they have to teach students with exams in mind, ensuring students know how to answer exam questions. This often results in students being able to memorise and repeat key pieces of information, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they understand the topic as a whole. However, International Baccalaureate (IB) approaches things in a slightly different way.

It will come as no surprise that reading is important and, according to a study, children who read for pleasure more than once a week perform better at school than those who read less. Plus, children who read more also had a more proactive approach to their own learning. There is a lot of research that backs this up, but one report states that only 2% of parents read to their children every day. As reading can have such a big impact on a child’s academic learning and development, encouraging them to read is key, and this is something that can be done at school.

Though it’s important to pay attention in a lesson, it’s not always enough to see someone through a tough exam, and extra work is often needed to get the grades that they want. This is where revision comes in.

From the view of teachers, tutoring services are thought of as a luxury due to their expense. With school budgets being more tight than they have ever been before, teachers are looking at different ways to save on funds. Unfortunately, one method of saving involves cutting tutoring services for pupils.

We can all agree that technology is changing education and laptops, tablets and mobile phone usage is a huge part of this. Students are becoming increasingly used to using technology at home, and so it’s no surprising that a growing number of students want to use phones in school.

While research on ChatGPT in the classroom is still in its infancy, interest in the topic is booming–academic references on Google Scholar have shot up from 8,000 to 30,000 since April 2023. It’s clear that this is something we all have questions about–and answers are starting to emerge.

Vaping has emerged as a growing issue among secondary school aged children, fuelled by enticing marketing and sweet flavours. The medical risks associated with early vaping initiation are a cause for concern, and teachers play a pivotal role in addressing and discouraging this behaviour among their students. 

Get to know our SEN consultant Sidney a little better and find out why he chose to work for Create Education. 

We have compiled a list of 5 ways you can get your class talking about mental health.

School's Football Week kicks off on the 7th of February. Here are some back of the net ways to get the kids involved!

Christmas is a really exciting time of year for students (and grown-ups too). There are lots of festive, fun ways for you and your students to celebrate Christmas. To help we’ve shared a few ideas below.

We are proud to announce that we have signed the Mental Health in Recruitment Awareness to Action Pledge.  

I have been working in education recruitment since the age of 25, where I started as a young confident trainee at Protocol Education. The last 15 years have certainly been a rollercoaster, one that I have thoroughly enjoyed to date. 15 years working in any profession is a long time, and naturally, throughout that time I had the pleasure of working with a few different agencies and seen the different ways in which they operate. Having had the time to reflect, I now realise that those experiences were instrumental in my development as a recruiter. I am confident that most education recruiters who read this would agree that the longer you work in education, the more your relationship with education changes.