The Satchel Blog

Attendance has been more of a challenge than usual this academic year. School attendance

As lockdown measures ease and some primary school students in England begin their return to school, many other schools across the UK, both primary and secondary, are beginning ...

Liberationism flips the traditional classroom on its head. By putting the student at the centre of the classroom instead of the teacher, pupils have more say in what they learn ...

What is behaviourist pedagogy and what can cats teach us about the way students learn?

Teachers experience it in their classrooms, and parents experience it at kitchen tables and IKEA desks across the country: kids struggling to concentrate on their work or ...

One of the biggest sources of anxiety for new teachers is dealing with student behaviour. How will I manage a class of 20-30 students ...

Teacher workload has long been a cause for concern. The teaching crisis has consistently ranked workload as one of the main reasons that teachers are leaving the profession, ...

Feedback is an integral part to your progression as a teacher, and lesson observations are an effective way to gather feedback and direction on areas for improvement. As ...

Classroom management is when a teacher exhibits complete control over their classroom through a series of strategies and techniques that encourage positive student ...

The subject of teacher wellbeing has been on the rise in recent years in conjunction with the publicised teaching crisis and ‘healthy body, healthy mind’ yoga and meditation ...

Behaviour management is a fundamental pillar of the whole classroom management system. The behaviour of students in the classroom impacts a teacher’s ability to provide ...

There’s more to a student’s academic success than just great teaching and great content; the environment in which they learn has a major impact on their progression. 

YouTube in the classroom: can it be used as an engaging teaching and learning tool? Or is it a nothing more than a distraction?