Friday
Teachers call on Scottish government to outlaw ‘fire and rehire’
Strike action is looming at a Glasgow private school over changes to teacher pensions – and other schools could ‘impose similar detrimental changes’ without government intervention, a union warns
NASUWT Scotland: behaviour policies leave teachers ‘vulnerable to allegations’
Impact on teachers may be ‘devastating and often career ending, even if they are eventually found to have done nothing wrong’, says union
Thursday
SSTA: Teachers ‘denied opportunity’ to consider exams proposals
Leader of the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association will say in an address tomorrow that he fears proposed changes to assessment will ‘only add to teacher workload’
Inclusion failure ‘risks a return to an institutional model’
Next month it will be three years since Angela Morgan published her support-for-learning review. She talks about how Scottish education still needs a ‘radical redesign’
What teachers gain when they become learners themselves
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
Wednesday
Teachers against ‘foolhardy’ return to pre-Covid assessment
Only one in seven teachers thinks the return to pre-pandemic course assessments in Scotland is a positive move at Higher level, Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association research suggests
Languages in schools: how we’re trying to win hearts and minds
Against a ‘troubling’ backdrop of declining uptake of languages, a pilot project in five Scottish secondaries uses student mentors and takes inspiration from similar work in Wales
Friday
Where are we now after a week of FSM confusion?
Earlier this week, Humza Yousaf indicated a move away from a basic principle of free school meals for every pupil – but a day later his deputy had a less clear-cut message
More pay or less class contact time - what would teachers prefer?
Next week Scottish secondary teachers will be asked if they want to campaign for a 7% pay rise in lieu of government promise to reduce class-contact time by 90 minutes
Who decides if student teachers are up to the job?
A new landmark report talks up the strengths of teacher education in Scotland – but it also identifies underlying tensions between schools and universities. So, how can this partnership be improved? Emma Seith looks at our approach to training the teachers of tomorrow
