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Te s 27 NOVEMBER 2020
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Sitting comfortably? Doubts about Covid advice to seat pupils in rows; what your clothes say about you as a teacher; and the best of the rest from tes.com
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The trouble with ‘tolerance’ The British Values framework talks of ‘tolerance’ – but this doesn’t encourage a positive attitude to diversity, says Megan Mansworth
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Natural learners? Is learning in-built, or are there some things that humans simply have to be taught? John Morgan looks at the evidence
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Warm welcome The way you greet your pupils at the start of a lesson can have a big impact on learning and student-teacher relationships, studies show
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Expert ease How ‘cognitive apprenticeships’ – whereby teachers model specialist thought processes – can get students thinking like experts
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My word Primary teacher Sally Kawagoe set out to identify the words most commonly used in classrooms – and was surprised by her findings
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Gang warfare A ‘gang’ culture can develop in leadership, spreading fear through a school – but there are ways to combat it, says Maria Williamson
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Peace of mindset The evidence for using the ‘growth mindset’ approach with 16-19 students is limited – so should colleges continue with it?
Next week System failure Vulnerable pupils are falling through gaps in our support system – can we fix it?