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Can teachers hand-deliver paper assignments, while recording video lessons and delivering real ones? That may be what this term requires, says Michael Tidd

If you get all your planning done in July, then you can relax for the rest of the holiday. Or at least by early August. Or the week before you’re back to school? Michael Tidd prevaricates

Take Michael Tidd’s quiz to find out if you’ve got the balance of relaxation and school preparations right this summer

It’s easy to be cynical about the significant increase in applications to teacher-training courses this year. But, says Michael Tidd, is that necessarily the right response?

NQTs will be bombarded with advice about how they should spend the holidays – but do what feels right, says Michael Tidd

Many outside the profession have assumed that, given the right materials, they could easily do a teacher’s job. A few months of trying may – hopefully – have persuaded them otherwise, says Michael Tidd