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When a school is looking to recruit a new teacher, particularly in a popular area, you may end up with hundreds of job applications to sift through with the aim of whittling the numbers down until you have a suitable number to offer an interview. There are a few very simple filtering techniques that you …
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The Steiner education system was developed by Austrian born Rudolph Steiner in 1919. The concept of this style of education is to cater to the needs of all children regardless of their ability, ethnicity, religion or class. The Steiner system aims to teach children holistically, nurturing them academically, spiritually, emotionally and physically. There are schools …
There are a range of options open to those wishing to get into teaching. Once you have decided which age group and subject you are interested in you need to choose which route to take to get qualified. You can train for a teaching degree at university. You will have at least two school placements …
Many children, particularly by the time they are in secondary education can be reluctant to go to school and attendance can quickly slip below an acceptable level. All children below the age of 16 must attend full time education by law therefore as a parent it is your legal responsibility to ensure that they attend. …
Filling in any application for can be tricky as you know that a potential employer will be reading it and scrutinising what you have written however as a teacher this is especially important to get it right as the application form can say a lot about you as a teacher. When there is a lot …