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TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION 2024

TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION 2024

by | Jun 2, 2024 | Hot Topics

10 findings from reports regarding teacher recruitment and retention 2024. Here we have presented 10 findings about teacher recruitment and retention facing schools in 2024, from a a variety of sources. Postgraduate teacher recruitment was 38% below target for the...
Teacher Stress

Teacher Stress

by | May 21, 2024 | Wellbeing

As part of stress awareness month, we look at the growing concerns of teacher stress. We then focus on understanding stress and suggest some coping strategies. Teacher stress and findings from recent reports Before we go any further, we need to understand the...
Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week

by | May 13, 2024 | Wellbeing

Its’ Mental health awareness week, running from the 13th to the 19th of May. Movement and Mental health Did you know this year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is all about movement? So here we share how physical activity works on so many levels to help mental...
Finding the right role

Finding the right role

by | May 1, 2024 | Hot Topics

Finding the right role as an ECT Our ECT tips guides through how to find your right first role Your ECT tips on finding the right role for you is important as its essential you are placed in the best role to begin with because your first teaching assignment will have...
Understanding Stress

Understanding Stress

by | Apr 28, 2024 | Wellbeing

For teaching staff, lecturers, or head teachers, stress can be an ongoing factor. Increasing challenges including workload,  and budget pressures has meant that many teaching staff have endured long term stressors. Prolonged stress can reduce resilience and may appear...
Finding the right role

Finding ECT jobs

by | Apr 14, 2024 | Career Advice

ECTs first teaching jobs Here we look at finding your first ECT job. Are you an Early Careers Teacher, almost at the end of your university course?  Are you looking for an ECT role, either a permanent ECT job or a supply ECT teaching placement? Firstly, you may be...
Europe day

Europe day

by | May 4, 2023 | Lesson Planning

Have you heard of Europe day and how it started? Europe Day is held on the 9th of May every year throughout the world it and celebrates unity across Europe. It first came about when French foreign minister Robert Schuman made an important speech where he set out the...
World Book Day

World Book Day

by | Mar 1, 2023 | Lesson Planning

About World Book Day World Book Day is celebrated on the 2nd March 2023 with the theme this year of making it YOUR World Book Day.Organised by the United Nation’s Education and Science sector, it first started in the UK in 1997. It helps teachers, T.A.s, supply...
NSPCC Number Day

NSPCC Number Day

by | Feb 2, 2023 | Lesson Planning

Its NSPCC Number Day in the UK! Did you know that on Friday 3 February 2023 its NSPCC Number Day? This is an opportunity for teachers and T.A.s to focus on maths whilst fundraising. What is NSPCC Number Day? The idea of NSPCC is to raise awareness of abuse of children...
A teacher guide to gender definitions

Sexism in schools

by | Jan 19, 2023 | Hot Topics

Sexism in schools: the rise of Andrew Tate. Why has sexism in schools become so relevant now? Did you know that schools have reported an increase in sexism, sexual abuse and hatred towards girls? In addition, are you aware of the recent Ofsted report? The report found...
Life after Leadership 1

Life after Leadership 1

by | Dec 11, 2022 | Hot Topics

A summary of our latest podcast episode – Life after Leadership:1 Here we take a look at life after leadership: 1. Firstly, leaving an education leadership role can be a difficult transition. In addition, it can be hard to know when the right time to leave is,...
DBS Policy

DBS Policy

by | Jul 25, 2022 | Policy Documents

The safety of children and young people is paramount, and Provide Education is committed to implementing the Disclosure and Barring (DBS) procedures and arrangements. We will comply with the DBS Code of Practice and National Care Standards guidance regarding the...
Complaints

Complaints

by | Jul 11, 2022 | Policy Documents

Operam Education Group (OEG) is committed to providing a high level of service to our customers. If you do not receive satisfaction from us, we need you to tell us about it. This will help us to improve our standards. COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE If you have a complaint,...
Allegations Policy

Allegations Policy

by | Jul 11, 2022 | Policy Documents

This policy gives details of what action we will take when such concerns are raised with us and should be raised alongside our Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy, Complaints Policy, Safer Recruitment policy and Whistleblowing policy. Allegations Policy...
Eating Disorder Awareness

Eating Disorder Awareness

by | Apr 1, 2022 | Wellbeing

Eating disorders are such a secretive illness, that many sufferers hide symptoms from their loved ones. They may feel ashamed. It is common for individuals to deny any issues when asked as this is part of the problem. This means that many reach a serious stage of...
Work/Life Balance Week

Work/Life Balance Week

by | Oct 12, 2021 | Wellbeing

As it’s work/life balance week, we take a look at why supply teaching supports a healthy lifestyle. Words are important and the subtlety of some phrases can say a lot subconsciously. The term ‘work-life balance’ has been increasingly used and embedded into...
Rita Pierson

Rita Pierson

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.'” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students...
Salman Khan

Salman Khan

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven’t always grasped the basics? Yes, it’s complicated, but educator Sal Khan shares his plan to turn...
Avlin Irby

Avlin Irby

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

According to the US Department of Education, more than 85 percent of black fourth-grade boys aren’t proficient in reading. What kind of reading experiences should we be creating to ensure that all children read well? In a talk that will make you rethink how we...
Bill Gates

Bill Gates

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: “satisfactory.” And with no feedback, no coaching, there’s just no way to improve. Bill Gates suggests that even great teachers can get better with smart feedback — and lays...
Carol Dweck

Carol Dweck

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it...
Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and...
Christopher Edmin

Christopher Edmin

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

What do rap shows, barbershop banter and Sunday services have in common? As Christopher Emdin says, they all hold the secret magic to enthral and teach at the same time — and it’s a skill we often don’t teach to educators. A longtime teacher himself, now a...
Geoffrey Canada

Geoffrey Canada

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago? Millions of students were failing then, as they are now — and it’s because we’re clinging to a business model that clearly doesn’t work. Education advocate Geoffrey Canada...
Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, West Virginia — and a shocking image of the sugar we eat — TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food Click on the button below to view...
Kelly McGonigal

Kelly McGonigal

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal...
Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

  Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how...
Nadia Lopez

Nadia Lopez

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Our kids are our future, and it’s crucial they believe it themselves. That’s why Nadia Lopez opened an academic oasis in Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the most underserved and violent neighbourhoods in New York — because she believes in every...
Olympia Della Flora

Olympia Della Flora

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

To get young kids to thrive in school, we need to do more than teach them how to read and write — we need to teach them how to manage their emotions, says educator Olympia Della Flora. In this practical talk, she shares creative tactics she used to help...
Ramsey Musallam

Ramsey Musallam

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark...
Salman Khan

Salman Khan

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to...
Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other — using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for...
Taylor Mali

Taylor Mali

by | Nov 30, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

Ever heard the phrase “Those who can’t do, teach”? At the Bowery Poetry Club, slam poet Taylor Mali begs to differ, and delivers a powerful, 3-minute response on behalf of educators everywhere. Click on the button below to view the...
Astro Teller

Astro Teller

by | Nov 29, 2019 | Top Ted Talks

“Great dreams aren’t just visions,” says Astro Teller, “They’re visions coupled to strategies for making them real.” The head of X (formerly Google X), Teller takes us inside the “moonshot factory,” as it’s called,...
Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

by | Nov 13, 2019 | Policy Documents

The Company is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work- seekers. The Company must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services – in doing so, the Company acts as a data...
The Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations

The Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations

by | Nov 13, 2019 | Policy Documents

About this guidance – This is statutory guidance from the Department for Education on the application of: • The Childcare (Disqualification) and Childcare (Early Years Provision Free of Charge) (Extended Entitlement) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (“the 2018...