New Year’s Resolutions: Our Top Tips for Teachers

Have a sparkling start to your year

How are you going to stay fresh in your teaching role and motivated until the next school holidays?  Follow these top tips from Prospero Teaching to keep you and your class happy.

Introduce New Elements Into Your Classroom

Try one new piece of teaching software each month to keep things new and challenging when teaching.  You and your pupils will  benefit. Make a list and assign one new thing to each month will help you stick to your plan.

Set Goals

What are one or two things you think are important but  get way laid as soon as the term gets going? Write one achievable goal a month in your diary and make it a teaching priority.

Encourage Fitness 

It wouldn’t be a new year’s resolution list without some mention of health and fitness. Make it a classroom activity with healthy eating lessons, integrating movement into your daily activities.

Get Your Work-Life Balance in Order

Much easier to write than do but try and keep your school work at school and enjoy your time at home. Make sure you set a cut-off point for when your school day and thus teaching work ends.  Also set one day a week eg Saturday as a non-school day ensuring you do no school work.  Making yourself happy will make you a better teacher, more fulfilled AND your students will benefit too.

Reduce Your Marking Load

Use one lesson a week for peer-to-peer marking.  Not only is it an effective teaching tool but that’s 30 books less for you to mark.

Give One-on-One Attention to Pupils

It doesn’t have to be formal, but something like a rotating classroom job in which pupils help you do something. You can check in with them individually and see how it’s going.

Don’t Let Admin & School Policies Get You Down

There is nothing you can do to change those annoying meetings, policies  or piles of paperwork, so try to stay calm and focus on the children – they’re the reason you’re there in the first place.

Consider Your Teaching Career

Whether you need to add professional development or change positions, think about your goals and plan for how to achieve them.

Dress to Impress – Yourself

Don’t underestimate how feeling good in your clothes and wearing something you love can lift your mood. Add a few, fun pieces to your typical work outfits and turn those school corridors into your own personal runway…..

Looking for further top tips for teachers?  We’ve got our teaching tips for supply teachers or more hot tips for NQT interviews.  Based overseas? Thought of teaching in the UK? We’ve got advice and all the info you’ll need.

Did you find this blog interesting? Maybe you’ve got a top tip for your fellow teachers starting the new year you’d like to share with them?

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