Here’s your roundup of practical and useful advice for schools that we have published in the past seven days.  

Teaching in the time of coronavirus

• How many staff have to be off before a school closes?
• 5 tips from a videographer for your ‘open day’ video
• 5 unexpected advantages of students wearing masks
• 5 things school leaders can do to help teacher-parents
   

General teaching topics

• How do you measure student-teacher relationships?
• 4 ways to manage behaviour in sixth form
• Can what you teach land you in trouble with the law?
• How to get students to revise properly: a guide 
• 6 things a teacher (really) needs from their partner
• Why we shouldn’t be telling pupils to ‘sit still’
• A four-step plan to close the ‘word gap’ in primary 
• Selective mutism: what teachers need to know
   

International schools

• 4 quick and easy ways to make language learning fun
• 3 ways I’ve cut my marking load that actually worked
• 3 ways to teach tolerance and that it’s OK to disagree
• 5 essential phrases to learn if you’re teaching abroad
• Why we should take time to explain why topics matter
• Why international schools need sequenced wellbeing
   

Recruitment, wellbeing, CPD

• 4 small things schools can do to help teacher wellbeing
• Watch: how to plan for a year of trust-wide recruitment
• How to keep up staff morale in lockdown 2.0
• Watch: how to recruit and onboard international teachers
   

For those with a subscription to the magazine

• Rethinking failure as a key part of learning
• Why prosody is a powerful tool for teachers
• Why every school should have a ‘behaviour beast’
• Does a metacognitive approach work in the early years?
• Streaks: is the motivational tool helpful or harmful?
• Home truths about home education
• Schools must plan to stay ahead of the Covid curve
• How to teach RSE to post-16 students