Here's your round-up of practical and useful advice for schools that we have published in the past seven days.  

Teaching in the time of coronavirus

• 2021 exams: three questions that we still need answers to
• What should you do if a student refuses to wear a mask?
• Long Covid: what teachers and pupils need to know
• A four-step plan for performing a nativity in a pandemic
• Three ways to keep your extracurricular provision going
   

General teaching topics

• Early Years: are nursery rhymes dying out?
• Five signs you need a break from teaching
• GCSEs 2021: Why not every student needs a bespoke plan
• Tes campaign: Classrooms to Care Homes
• Six ways to help students who stammer
• GCSEs and A levels 2021: how to model exam technique
• How I changed my approach to behaviour in early years
• Binary debates are damaging; let's find a middle ground
   

International schools

• Eight vital life skills to focus on with your form
• Why we can't assume every student welcomes a Biden win
• How the UK is supporting China's education evolution
• What's it like living and teaching in Spain?
• How I've made flipped learning via video work this year
• Why we run critical thinking lessons - and how to do it
• Why we're finally changing our school's outdated name
   

Recruitment, wellbeing, CPD

• What's it like living and teaching in Spain?
• Watch: international safeguarding after Covid
• What changes when you step up to senior leadership
• Watch: how to forge a career teaching the IB

For those with a subscription to the magazine

• How to keep pupils' attention in a Covid classroom
• The impact of poverty on pupils' brains
• Make a choice on when to use your Teacher Voice
• How schools can get EAL right
• How to avoid trouble when casting a nativity play
• Why teachers need to help students help themselves
• Why is school improvement like a doughnut?
• Fighting the rise in eating disorders