Before we get to our usual smorgasbord of delight and discovery, a reminder that the Teacher Tapp 10K is back on. More teachers tapping helps us share your voice more authoritatively. And it makes it easier to do those critical breakdowns of answers, spotting whether teachers’ responses differ by phase, subject, age or favourite pen colour. The magic number for us is 10,000 respondents. Some days we’re above, some days we’re below… so to encourage you to respond, every day we get more than 10,000 respondents, one lucky tappster will get a bundle of Teacher Tapp goodies to say thank you. So, as ever, keep tapping. (T&Cs here.)
It is the last week of the summer holidays before secondary teachers start dealing with GCSE and A Level results, yet 8% of secondary teachers have not been given their timetable next year! Two thirds have seen the final version of their timetable and the rest have some draft or approximate view of what they are teaching. We guess this is one way to make the summer easier: you can’t prepare for classes when you don’t know who you’ll be teaching.
