What’s getting in the way?
All 44 problems, in the words teachers use for them. Pick the one that sounds like your classroom to see which techniques teachers rate for it.
All 44 problems
- “They talk over me and each other”3 techniques
- “Low-level disruption is wearing me down”6 techniques
- “When I correct one student it turns into a battle”8 techniques
- “One student derails every lesson”6 techniques
- “I give instructions and half of them don’t follow”4 techniques
- “Behaviour is fine but the room feels flat and cold”7 techniques
- “They zone out when I’m teaching from the front”6 techniques
- “The first ten minutes are chaos”4 techniques
- “Transitions eat my lesson time”5 techniques
- “My lessons end in a scramble, not a landing”2 techniques
- “My routines worked in September and slipped by November”3 techniques
- “Giving out books and equipment wastes minutes every lesson”3 techniques
- “It’s always the same five hands”4 techniques
- “'I don’t know' ends every exchange”3 techniques
- “I get one-word answers or shrugs”5 techniques
- “They shout answers before anyone can think”4 techniques
- “I ask a question and get silence”5 techniques
- “I hear a half-right answer and move on anyway”3 techniques
- “They’re lost five minutes into my explanation”5 techniques
- “They can do it with me but not without me”6 techniques
- “Abstract concepts just don’t land”3 techniques
- “They copy the board without thinking”2 techniques
- “Multi-step tasks fall apart at step two”5 techniques
- “They nod along, then bomb the assessment”10 techniques
- “I only discover misconceptions when marking”6 techniques
- “Students hide their mistakes from me”5 techniques
- “Marking is drowning me and changing nothing”3 techniques
- “They glance at feedback and repeat the mistake”5 techniques
- “They forget everything by next week”4 techniques
- “Their idea of revision is re-reading notes”4 techniques
- “They ace the drill, then can’t apply it”4 techniques
- “Each new topic pushes out the last one”4 techniques
- “Homework comes back copied, late, or not at all”3 techniques
- “Written answers are two lines of mush”4 techniques
- “They freeze at a blank page”5 techniques
- “Whole-class reading is painful”2 techniques
- “Their vocabulary caps their thinking”5 techniques
- “Group discussion drifts off task in seconds”2 techniques
- “They do the bare minimum and coast”4 techniques
- “'This is boring — what’s the point?'”3 techniques
- “My praise doesn’t seem to land”2 techniques
- “They give up at the first hurdle”6 techniques
- “I teach 150 students and barely know them”3 techniques
- “The room is flat — no energy, no urgency”3 techniques