Blogging, morale and other assorted niggles
This is the first time I have blogged since last August for the simple reason that it is something that could be so important to my teaching as a reflective practitioner but that has to be moved to the bottom of the list so only seems to happen in the holidays. I am aware that there is a quote somewhere about time and there being no such thing as not enough so on the blogging side of things, I must make more effort to make time. But the issue of time and workload is so very now. I have been on twitter for the first time in ages today and read interesting articles about teacher morale and some excellent posts by Geoff Barton, Doug Belshaw and Mark Clarkson on the issue of staff morale, workload pressures and the perception of teaching from outsiders. And I agree with everything they say. But I feel as though somewhere along the line we are missing a trick. We have the power and ability within our schools to make staff feel good. We have the ability to thank our colleagues for all th