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At the chalkface: Teach like nobody is watching!

Teaching staff
We must be trusted. We must be allowed to teach like nobody’s watching. Maybe we’ve reached some kind of tipping point, maybe there’s nothing more to lose – maybe we can reclaim our classrooms...

“Teach like Nobody’s Watching!”

This is the title of a new and timely book by Mark Ensor. Absolutely. We need to stop pleasing and appeasing “outside observers”.

But is it quite that easy?

How can you teach like nobody’s watching, when a mean, malign Medusa gaze paralyses you more than ever? How can you pretend it’s not there? And keep your job?

Ah, for the golden age, when we were trusted to teach how and what we wanted. My PGCE year tumbled with thrilling ideas, a fierce and often countercultural pedagogy. We learned that good teaching was complex, tough, nuanced – and always political.

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