What do Classroom do during the holidays?

Classroom will be open for business throughout the summer break from 10 - 4 every day. I wanted to give you a taste of things that will be doing during this period to make sure that we in the best position to help you get as much work…

Do you need qualifications to be qualified?

An interesting development regarding school staffing has arisen over the past few years. With the advent of Academies and Free Schools and competition for the best talent becoming increasingly fierce, the qualifications employees hold seems…

8 Ways to reduce your marking workload

Ryan Wilson in the Guardian writes about how to reduce marking. Here are his top 8 tips:

Marking was identified as the single biggest contributor to teachers’ unsustainable workload in the 2014…

What motivates your next teaching move?

I have just listened to a presentation and one of the elements of it was the motivation that people have when considering new positions. 

It boiled down to the following seven elements:

• Work/life balance
• Colleagues
• Money
• Workplace…

Tier 5 teachers, do you need more work?

Are you a teacher with a Tier 5 visa? Are you being let down by your current agency who promised you the world but have not delivered? Are you looking for just a bit more honesty in the work you get, the pay you get and the travel times required…