teachers

Ballet teacher’s online class is hilariously interrupted by her CAT

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‘She really wants to be a part of the show!’ Ballet teacher’s online class is hilariously interrupted by her CAT leaping into her arms while she was mid-move Amelia Love Clearheart, a dancer from Seattle, Washington, has been streaming and prerecording her classes while quarantined amid the coronavirus pandemic  The ballet teacher was recording a … Read more

School of celebrity teachers! Stars use their talents to educate the nation’s locked-down kids

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Celebrities with talents are using their time in self-isolation to tutor the nation’s locked-down children.     Body Coach Joe Wicks pitched early, vowing last week to get the country’s schoolchildren active with 9am daily physical education lessons, after it was announced that schools were closing.  Around two million people worldwide tuned in to his first work-out … Read more

Teachers are to ask to see keyworker papers to make sure parents are not lying

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Teachers have been given the power to ask parents for ID and payslips to prove they are ‘key workers’ – amid fears that many will lie about their jobs so they can drop off their children. Schools across Britain shut to most pupils on Friday. But headmasters predict a meltdown after experts suggested two million … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Teachers prepare home-learning packs for pupils

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Boris Johnson has today refused to close schools across the UK despite more than 350,000 people signing a petition urging the government to take action.   Concerned parents are calling on the Prime Minister to send pupils home to prevent the spread of Covid19 – with 100,000 signatures being the minimum required to secure a debate … Read more

Training ‘ghost’ teachers who NEVER take up posts in state schools costs taxpayer up to £123million

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Training ‘ghost’ teachers who NEVER take up posts in state schools costs the taxpayer up to £123million Almost one-in-ten teachers trained with bursary don’t take up state school posts  Figures show more than 11,000 ‘ghost trainees’ changed their mind on teaching Trainees for subjects such as physics are eligible for bursaries up to £26,000 By … Read more

Aspiring teachers are graduating university without basic literacy skills and failing a simple test

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How aspiring teachers are graduating university without basic literacy skills and failing a simple test – so could YOU pass? Future Australian teachers are paying tutors to help them qualify as educators There’s been a five per cent jump in teachers failing a literacy test from 2016-18 While tutoring agencies are reporting an increase in … Read more

Class sizes are getting bigger to save cash as schools axe teachers

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Class sizes are getting bigger to save cash as schools axe teachers as part of widespread cost-cutting measures  Schools are axing teachers as part of widespread cost-cutting measures Quieter pupils becoming ‘lost’ in bigger lessons, inspectors in England found Ninety-one per cent of secondary head teachers reported ‘class sizes increased’  By Daily Mail Reporter Published: … Read more