Staff Management

Friday

25th Apr 2025

10 reasons why CPD sessions fail - and how to avoid them
CPD is vital for teachers but too often it falls short of providing lasting impact. A MAT director of learning outlines how to avoid the most common pitfalls
Man slipping on banana skin

Monday

21st Apr 2025

Workload Around the World: Calendar planning and parent events
Tes’ series on reducing teacher workload takes us to New York, where a leader explains the benefits of giving staff a clear picture of what the academic year has in store
Skyline of New York city

Monday

14th Apr 2025

Workload Around the World: No Monday morning deadlines
An international school leader in the UAE talks about how he manages staff workload to avoid a ‘live to work’ mindset creeping in
Workload Around the World Ajman UAE

Monday

7th Apr 2025

Workload Around the World: No weekend working, generous PPA
A head in Saudi Arabia explains how her school strives to ensure teacher workload is fair and balanced – and why her days of weekend working in the UK are a thing of the past
Workload Around the World: No weekend working, generous PPA

Monday

31st Mar 2025

Workload Around the World: Online Fridays and 4.30pm finishes
A leader in Kenya discusses the practical steps his school has taken to ensure that staff have a manageable workload and a culture of leaving on time
Teacher workload in international schools: Flexible working at a school in Kenya

Wednesday

26th Mar 2025

Why niche CPD on learning outcomes is a real winner
Giving each teacher just one performance objective – an action research project – means staff can focus on interventions that drive attainment, explains this headteacher
Teacher CPD: How performance objectives based on action research help everyone

Tuesday

25th Mar 2025

Communications is key for a smooth MAT merger
The CEO of King’s Group Academies says having a clear communications strategy was pivotal when his MAT merged with a five-school trust last year
Semaphone flags spelling Merger

Monday

24th Mar 2025

Workload Around the World: Avoiding ‘last-minuteism’
The leader of an IB school in Japan discusses his approach to ensuring that staff workload remains manageable, including efforts to reduce last-minute demands on teachers’ time
Workload Around the World: Avoiding ‘last-minuteism’

Monday

17th Mar 2025

Workload Around the World: Avoiding out-of-hours work
In the first of a new series, a senior leader in Qatar discusses her school’s approach to ensuring that staff workload remains manageable – and why more flexible working is the goal
Workload Around the World: Avoiding out-of-hours work

Tuesday

11th Mar 2025

How our trust is making QTS achievable for all
The requirement in the government’s schools bill for all teachers to have qualified teacher status gives us a chance to rethink teacher development, says BDAT’s Katie Waring
signposts with pathways

Thursday

27th Feb 2025

How our schools group supports girls’ mental health
The head of wellbeing for an international schools group explains how it has introduced a raft of initiatives to help teenage girls
How our schools group supports girls’ mental health

Monday

17th Feb 2025

What questions should you ask in your teacher job interview?
An experienced head shares her advice on questions teacher job candidates should ask at the end of their interview to make a good impression
What questions should you ask at the end of a teaching interview