The Secret Supply Teacher: Fights, IT fails, no support
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Secret Teacher
  • Dec 1, 2019
Cover lessons: a chance to complete your own education
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Supply teachers Secret Teacher
  • Nov 16, 2019
In the last week of term, we are all supply teachers
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Supply teachers Secret Teacher
  • Jul 21, 2019
Secret Teacher: teaching children without play was soul-destroying
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Secret Teacher SATS EYFS
  • Jun 2, 2018
Secret Teacher: I hated teaching – until I realised my school was the problem
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Stress PPA Students Secret Teacher
  • May 19, 2018
Secret Teacher: the exodus of older teachers is draining schools of expertise
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Secret Teacher
  • May 12, 2018
Secret Teacher: students need PSHE guidance but I'm not equipped to give it
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PSHE Secret Teacher
  • May 5, 2018
Secret Teacher: I fear for the wellbeing of students under pressure to perform
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Secret Teacher Exams Stress
  • Apr 28, 2018
Secret Teacher: my students know all about exams but little of the wider world
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Secret Teacher
  • Apr 14, 2018
Secret Teacher: my school dumbs down learning for students with special needs
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SEN Secret Teacher
  • Apr 7, 2018
Secret Teacher: my school's endless rules do more harm than good
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Secret Teacher Discipline
  • Mar 31, 2018
Secret Teacher: we're setting dyslexic children up to feel like failures
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Secret Teacher Dyslexia Literacy
  • Mar 24, 2018
Secret Teacher: I was undermined for a decade. Now I can call it bullying
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Secret Teacher Bullying
  • Mar 17, 2018
Secret Teacher: the focus on exams is failing GCSE students
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Secret Teacher GCSE Exams
  • Mar 10, 2018
Secret Teacher: sensationalist headlines can do real damage to schools
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Underperforming schools Ofsted ratings Secret Teacher
  • Mar 3, 2018
Secret Teacher: social media makes it impossible to switch off from work
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Secret Teacher Social media
  • Feb 24, 2018
Secret Teacher: I'm faced with the realities of child poverty every day
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Secret Teacher Poverty
  • Feb 17, 2018
Secret Teacher: I feel stuck in a profession that's making me ill
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Secret Teacher Stress Mental health
  • Feb 3, 2018
Secret Teacher: education should be driven by evidence, not political whims
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Politics Evidence Secret Teacher
  • Jan 27, 2018
Secret Teacher: the UK has a complex racial history. Why aren’t we teaching it?
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Secret Teacher Racism BAME Minorities
  • Jan 20, 2018
Secret Teacher: why can't my school just trust us to do our job?
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Secret Teacher
  • Jan 13, 2018
Secret Teacher: subjects like art are being sidelined – but they matter
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Secret Teacher Arts
  • Jan 6, 2018
Our top 10 Secret Teacher blogs of 2017
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Secret Teacher
  • Dec 30, 2017
Secret Teacher: I'm working full time but struggling to make ends meet
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Pay Secret Teacher
  • Dec 9, 2017
Secret Teacher: funding cuts leave us unable to help SEN children at school
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Secret Teacher SEN Funding School cuts
  • Dec 2, 2017
Secret Teacher: I don't have the equipment and resources to do my job
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Secret Teacher School cuts
  • Nov 11, 2017
Secret Teacher: When my partner died, it was teaching that saved me
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Wellbeing Secret Teacher
  • Nov 4, 2017
Secret Teacher: I don’t feel I’m making a difference any more
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Secret Teacher Evidence
  • Oct 14, 2017
Secret Teacher: my school's behaviour policy makes me feel powerless
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Secret Teacher Behaviour
  • Oct 7, 2017
Secret Teacher: we must play our part in giving Muslim students a voice
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Secret Teacher Muslim
  • Sep 30, 2017
Secret Teacher: I was forced to claim benefits over the summer holidays
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Secret Teacher Teachers' pay Teachers
  • Sep 23, 2017
Secret Teacher: too many of us teach subjects we're not qualified for
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Secret Teacher Unqualified teachers
  • Sep 16, 2017
Secret Teacher: becoming a parent has changed me as an educator
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Secret Teacher Parents Primary schools
  • Sep 9, 2017
Secret Teacher: I loved my last class. Will this year's students step up?
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Secret Teacher
  • Sep 2, 2017
Secret Teacher: I love my job but why does it feel like I’m the only one?
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Secret Teacher Primary schools
  • Aug 26, 2017
Secret Teacher: unconditional offers give students no incentive to work hard
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Secret Teacher Students Unconditional offers
  • Aug 19, 2017
Secret Teacher: multi-academy trusts want machines not mentors
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Secret Teacher Mentoring
  • Aug 12, 2017
Secret Teacher: working in the holidays devalues our profession
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Guardian Secret Teacher Schools School holidays Teacher workload
  • Aug 5, 2017
Secret Teacher: when did I become a social worker for vulnerable parents?
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Secret Teacher Parents Parental engagement
  • Jul 29, 2017
Secret Teacher: in a stressful year, it's the children who have kept me going
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Secret Teacher Stress
  • Jul 22, 2017
Secret Teacher: we need evidence on free schools, not blind faith
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Guardian Secret Teacher Free schools
  • Jun 10, 2017
Secret Teacher: the obsession with league tables cheats our children
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Guardian Secret Teacher League tables
  • Jun 3, 2017
Secret Teacher: I feared special measures – but it's made us stronger
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Guardian Secret Teacher Ofsted Special measures
  • May 27, 2017
Secret Teacher: we're not reading – so why do we assume children will?
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Guardian Secret Teacher Reading English
  • May 20, 2017
Secret Teacher: my headteacher has handed control to the students
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Guardian Secret Teacher Headteachers Behaviour Discipline
  • May 6, 2017
Secret Teacher: fidget cubes need kicking out of class
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Guardian Secret Teacher Fidget cubes
  • Apr 29, 2017
Secret Teacher: I'm tired of justifying the value of vocational subjects
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Guardian Secret Teacher Vocational education
  • Apr 22, 2017
Secret Teacher: class, I wish I'd told you the truth about my mental health
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Guardian Secret Teacher Mental health Teachers
  • Apr 15, 2017
Secret Teacher: I won't be a foot soldier of a broken regime – I'm striking
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Guardian Secret Teacher NUT Strikes
  • Apr 8, 2017
Secret Teacher: a counselling course revolutionised my teaching
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Guardian Secret Teacher
  • Apr 1, 2017
Secret Teacher: we're afraid to use unions, but we must stand together
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Guardian Secret Teacher Unions
  • Mar 25, 2017
Secret Teacher: My school sees pupils as a funding formula – we're failing them
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Guardian Secret Teacher Funding Plagiarism
  • Mar 18, 2017
Secret Teacher: buying supplies my school can't afford costs me a fortune
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Guardian Secret Teacher
  • Mar 11, 2017
Secret Teacher: social media is hurting pupils – we need more support
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Guardian Secret Teacher Social media
  • Mar 4, 2017
Secret Teacher: I thought supply would be hell, but it's a joy
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Guardian Secret Teacher Supply teachers Primary schools Primary
  • Feb 25, 2017
Secret Teacher: our 'perfect' school is just keeping up appearances
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Guardian Secret Teacher
  • Feb 18, 2017
Secret Teacher: giving students wifi has made lessons chaotic
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Guardian Secret Teacher
  • Feb 11, 2017
Secret Teacher: my outstanding school felt like a results factory
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Guardian Secret Teacher Rankings
  • Feb 4, 2017
Secret Teacher: my uniform-mad school is putting style over substance
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Guardian Secret Teacher School uniform
  • Jan 21, 2017
Secret Teacher: myths of the Ofsted monster keep schools in fear
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Guardian Secret Teacher Ofsted
  • Jan 14, 2017
Our top 10 Secret Teachers of 2016
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Guardian Secret Teacher Teachers
  • Dec 24, 2016
Secret Teacher: I feel too old for this job, but I'm trapped
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Guardian Secret Teacher
  • Dec 10, 2016