In this week’s TES Professional, Bill Lowe, a senior lecturer at Newman University in Birmingham and a former headteacher suggests that a business approach to education is alienating teachers from leadership mostly because headteachers don’t understand how businesses work. To improve staff morale, Lowe explains, heads need to learn how to apply business models correctly (article free to subscribers).
What broccoli can teach us about behaviour
Meanwhile, Alex Quigley, director of learning and research at Huntington School, asks what teachers can learn from parents who use positive framing to get kids to eat their vegetables. He outlines several techniques from the dinner table that can be used in the classroom to get even the pickiest learners to eat their greens.
Meet the parents to improve relationships
Author Sonia Blandford explains how a structured approach to talking with parents can work wonders with hard-to-reach families. By setting up a termly meeting with the parents of a child who is struggling, Blandford says, schools can transform their relationships with families who have traditionally been seen as difficult to work with.
What is the Dalton approach?
Deputy headteacher Dr David James and director of admissions Edrys Barkham, both from Bryanston School in Dorset, investigate whether US educationalist Helen Parkhurst’s new and relatively untested approach to education could be as transformative as some converts believe it to be.
‘You simply can’t afford to avoid the numbers’
In her regular column for TES, Future Leaders acting chief executive Jacqueline Russell calls on teachers to engage with their school’s finances now, or risk missing out on crucial professional development opportunities. Believe it or not, teachers are already well-placed to understand school budgets, she argues.
How to expand your MAT beyond 10 schools
In the last in a TES series about academisation and multi-academy trusts (MATs), Sir Steve Lancashire, chief executive of the Reach Academy Trust, outlines the benefits and challenges of expanding a MAT. As well as explaining why MATs should grow, he also tells you how to go about it.
Who’d be a computing coordinator?
Our resident ed tech columnist, Claire Lotriet, takes a lighthearted look at some of the downsides of being a computing coordinator, from creating endless logins to being asked to fix stuff that isn’t really broken in the first place.
Read all these articles in full in the 3 June edition of TES. This week’s TES magazine is available in all good newsagents. To download the digital edition, Android users can click here and iOS users can click here
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