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Too many teachers new to the profession – most of them women – face ‘real difficulty’ finding work in Scotland’s schools, says country’s biggest teaching union

Planning, tutoring and assessment are the areas where artificial intelligence offers most promise in education, says Cognita’s group chief education officer

Teachers must give children the language to talk about their emotions as a first step in managing feelings in a helpful way, says educational psychologist Cathleen Halligan

Former schools minister Nick Gibb has been knighted and ex-union leader Geoff Barton appointed CBE in New Year Honours list

Tes explores the work of 20th-century developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky, who emphasised the importance of social interaction in a child’s development

Currently, there are no easy mechanisms to find trusts looking for another partner – but a new, dating app-like system could transform the process, says this headteacher

Evidence-informed practice is a priority in schools, but applying researchers’ findings properly requires careful thought, says Megan Dixon

After more than a decade in leadership, this teacher decided to go back to classroom teaching. She explains why

Tes explores the basics of Socratic questioning and how it can be used by teachers in classrooms today

As more schools in the US move to four-day weeks in a bid to save money and boost recruitment and retention, Irena Barker looks at how the model is working – and whether it could make sense in the UK

‘Pay to play’ culture around music education condemned by Scotland’s biggest teaching union, amid prospect of cuts to instrumental tuition

Education researcher Samuel Sims has crunched the numbers and found a simple solution to give the profession back an enormous amount of much-needed time