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John Stanier had high hopes for the National Professional Qualification for Headship, but instead found a frustrating lack of useful advice

Slow and steady is unlikely to win the workload race

Five years ago, when John Stanier’s school scrapped subject teaching in Year 7, no one predicted the government’s overhaul of the curriculum – or knew whether change could be sustained in the face of it

After reports of infernal student behaviour on the school bus multiplied, headteacher John Stanier decided to hop aboard to see for himself

Any colleague who sits in your class to assess the quality of teaching does not have to be a specialist in your subject, but they must be able to recognise what it is that makes a great educator, writes John Stanier

In the New Teachers supplement, free with this week’s issue of TES, John Stanier, assistant headteacher at Great Torrington School in Devon, talks to an NQT, their mentor and their partner about the emotional cost of training to be a teacher. Here’s a preview of what he learned: