Lesson Five: Being the Authority in the Classroom

“Authority is the thing I struggle with…I just don’t feel like I want to bully them into doing things..” Mike, Drama Teacher Questioning “Authority” What does ‘Authority’ mean? Just because someone says you are in charge, does that mean you… Continue Reading

Lesson Four: Getting Adolescents Going

…once I got my mind right, everything else began to fall into place. Child Psychologist, Donald Winnicott said “we have to recognise the everlasting in the ephemeral”.   (Winnicott, 1971) In other words, don’t just react to the moment. When a… Continue Reading

Help for new teachers who…feel they don’t know enough!

Teaching can be the greatest job on earth but it can also be tough.  Sixteen years ago I was thrown out of teaching for exposing what I judged to be the unhappy and desperate measures teachers resorted to in order to… Continue Reading