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Friday

5-day Covid isolation ‘doesn’t solve’ school staff issues
Heads’ leader says the only way to properly resolve the issue would be if less staff were being infected
teacher absences
What teachers can learn from ‘bug-in-ear’ coaching
Teachers receiving live feedback through an earpiece whilst teaching has become a popular training technique in some US schools. But how well does it work?
Coaching
Government needs to wake up to the reality in schools
Schools need help to mitigate staff absence and learning loss – and fast, argues Jon Severs
Strain
New MFL GCSEs to avoid ‘posh’ and ‘unfair’ references
The government has confirmed controversial MFL changes will go ahead to ‘boost accessibility’, but heads’ leaders have dismissed the reforms as ‘prescriptive and grinding’
language books and globe in the sun on a table
Time management: is this approach the silver bullet?
In teaching, the job is never ‘done’; there’s always more work to do. So how can teachers manage their time? Mark Enser shares his approach
Time management: is this approach the silver bullet?
Covid tutoring: Why hasn’t the magic happened?
How come take-up for the National Tutoring Programme has been so low? Laura McInerney breaks down what’s gone wrong
Tutroring
Why the call for former teachers and NTP has fallen flat
Geoff Barton casts a quizzical eye over a week that revealed the stark reality of how some much hyped-up government initiatives have failed to deliver – and why schools have pressed on regardless
Why it's no surprise the call for former teachers and NTP has fallen flat
Over 5,000 Scottish school staff absent due to Covid
Almost 3,000 of those staff unable to attend school this week were teachers, national statistics show
Covid school staff absence: More than 5,000 school staff, including 3,000 teachers, were absent for Covid-related reasons in Scotland this week
The Tes quiz: stages, shapes and Spidey
Pit your wits against Tes’ weekly general knowledge quiz...
The Tes quiz: 14 January 2022
Teachers ‘unable to work’ due to lack of Covid tests
Concern as one in 12 teachers say a lack of PCR and lateral flow tests has kept colleagues off school
empty desks in front of blackboard