The Satchel Blog

Sharing best practice in teaching should be integral to the role, after all teaching is a collaborative process - helping our colleagues and sharing what we know works can help ...

It’s no secret that teachers in the UK are overworked and stressed in their jobs, but a survey conducted by the NASUWT this week highlighted just how extreme this was with ...

It’s not unusual to hear about the hours teachers are working or the recruitment crisis. These issues have been going on so long that they’ve become what some might say ‘old ...

Collaboration is a powerful practice that helps us grow, be that personally, professionally or emotionally. Within education and edtech the ...

Mental health worries amongst students is a topic we’re familiar with. As the stigma surrounding mental health is slowly chipped away at, we’re ...

Praise makes us feel good. Fact. Receiving praise releases dopamine - the neurotransmitter that drives our brain’s reward system. Dopamine ...

Marking, although time consuming, is paramount to students’ progression. It is considered by Ofsted as instrumental to the quality of teaching ...

So, you may have noticed a few changes to Show My Homework recently. The reason for this is because ...

The steps we can take as educators to raise awareness of eating disorders and body image ...

The Summer Holidays are real and they’re happening right now, and as teachers you should be taking full advantage on this ...

The fight for gender equality has come a long way, but we’re not there yet ...

Satchel looks at what measures can be taken if your child is being bullied at school. Bullying is often caused by an imbalance of power either perceived or real. It is the ...

The benefits of parents being involved and present in a child’s school life has been researched countless times and the same results keep appearing - if a parent is engaged in ...

Students and children are highly impressionable, and are seeking out role models whose actions they will adopt and mirror. That's why, as a teacher, it's important ...

John F. Kennedy was a leader with an arsenal full of motivating speeches that inspired a nation when he was President and continue to inspire us today, years after his death. ...

@stbons Alton Mathew-Moghan gives an account of his time at the Show My Homework Enterprise Day!

Homework is great a consolidating knowledge of everything you learnt during the day. It teaches you how to work independently through using your own initiative, be that ...

It's crucial for parents to be involved and engaged in their child's school life, particularly the homework process.