Classroom and behaviour

Behaviour

Promoting positive and inclusive behaviour approaches in education

Advice

Class Sizes

Guidance on maximum class and room sizes

Advice

Three secondary school pupils building DNA model

Lesson planning

Advice for trainee members on lesson planning, timing and pacing, and tips on how to save time.

Advice

Classroom observation protocol in Wales

Guidance on classroom observation protocol in Wales

Advice

Classroom observations of NQTs

What to expect from classroom observations as a trainee teacher, including feedback, professional reviews and formal assessment meetings.

Advice

Large group of students writing in notebooks

Lesson observation in FE Colleges

This guidance outlines NEU best practice models for both the conduct of lesson observations and the Teaching and Learning Observation System (TLOS) framework within which they are conducted.

Advice

Female teacher bending over primary pupil

Classroom observations of support staff

NEU advice on observation by colleagues and others of support staff in schools.

Advice

Guidance on classroom observation protocol in England

Model policy on classroom observation to ensure it is developmental and supportive.

A classroom of primary school children with their hands up

Primary and Early Years assessment

The Covid-19 pandemic further highlighted the flaws in our primary assessment system that fails to put children first.

Advice

Ofsted inspection - advice for members on the main or upper pay range

The new Ofsted inspection framework is putting increasing pressure on members, particularly primary subject leaders and this is due to problems with school funding and staff recruitment which the new framework does not take into account.

Preventing and reducing exclusions

Exclusions, and who is excluded, tell a story about the inequalities in our education system.

Children playing with play clay in classroom

School Starting Age Flexibility

NEU Northern Ireland lobbies the Education Minister on school starting age flexibility.

Policy

Appraisal and classroom observation

Myths and misunderstandings around appraisal, assessment and OFSTED

Advice

Adaptations to assessments England 2022

Advice and guidance for adaptations to assessments for GCSEs, AS, A-Levels, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals and Technicals in England in 2022

Advice

Ofsted inspection - advice for school leaders in England

The new Ofsted inspection framework is focused on the quality of the school’s curriculum, and as a school leader, you have difficult decisions to make to balance staffing with budget in your school.