Great advice and tips for teachers
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
Help for Teachers…who are told they’re boring…
To lose control of a classroom is a feeling of absolute vulnerability, of being inside out with nowhere to hide! Worse still is to look at the clock and see that you have 50 minutes of the lesson left and… Continue Reading
Negotiating with your Anxiety
I work with Anxiety. I train teachers how to negotiate with Anxiety. My work is based on my own experience as an anxious person – negotiating with my anxiety is something I am very practiced in. I also have 15-years… Continue Reading