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Social media-driven ‘copycat’ behaviour has been blamed for recent increases in various mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions. But are children really ‘catching’ syndromes from the content they’re viewing online? Helen Amass investigates

Introducing an informal programme of lesson visits has proved so successful that this school plans to do it all again next year

Christine Howe has spent her career researching the benefits of classroom talk – and she’s more convinced than ever that group work should be a lesson staple

Cover teachers may feel they are starting on the back foot with behaviour, but the right support can help lessons to run more smoothly, finds Kate Jones

There’s a lot more to managing behaviour than the words you use, but some small language tweaks can make you feel more confident, says Jamie Thom

The ‘do now’ retrieval quiz has become a fixture of many classrooms, but Alex Quigley questions whether these quizzes are always as helpful as we’d like them to be

A student has raised a safeguarding concern, but what happens next? Safeguarding lead Thomas Michael sets out the steps

Teachers persistently mispronouncing a student’s name can make the child feel undervalued, says Gideon Hammond, who has come up with a simple initiative to help

Addressing diversity in the classroom needn’t involve a huge amount of extra planning, says Helen Drury, who shares four principles for good practice

When chemistry teacher Duncan Short took up the drums last year, he gained a deeper understanding of what his students face when they go through assessment

Taking the time to visit primary schools can be a valuable CPD experience, says this secondary head, who shares four things he learned from recent visits

As new research reveals that attending a ‘high-achieving’ school is a risk factor for mental health problems, psychologist Tara Porter considers what this means for how teachers work with their top attainers