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

Teaching during the coronavirus crisis:

• Social distancing: a behaviour challenge or not?
• 3 things we need to watch out for when teens return to school
• How to get blended learning right for September
• Getting play right in early years post-Covid: a guide
• Can we use the teenage brain to make schools safer?
• 6 questions about the coronavirus catch-up plan
• Managing transition to secondary in the Covid-19 crisis

General teaching topics:

• Do sanctions alone actually improve behaviour?
• What to do if you are accused of picking on a pupil
• How to reassure parents about part-time teaching

International:

• All Dutch primary pupils are back in school: here’s how
• Everything you should know about the IB extended essay

Wellbeing:

• 4 activities to help anxious students
• 6 ways to support wellbeing as schools return
• 4 simple ways to boost teacher wellbeing

Recruitment/careers:

• How we hired 25 teachers during lockdown 
• Why it’s not the worst year to be an NQT
• 5 reasons your job advert might be putting off applicants
• 3 things to do if you’re a TA who wants to teach

For those with a subscription to the magazine:

• Trauma-informed education strategies: do they work?
• Why teachers shouldn’t see eye contact as essential
• How podcasts can help PSHE
• How subject knowledge is power for CPD
• Is transfer of learning an impossible dream?
• Education research is longer lasting than shallow fads
• Want to boost student creativity? Take risks yourself