The dangers of fixed thinking for teachers and their students

By Gordon Cairns
Community contribution / February 23, 2017

Classroom teachers generally have three stages to their careers. There is the initial probationary stage where trying to juggle classroom management, subject knowledge, discipline and whole school commitments seems a daunting task.

Then, just as you think this period of frantically sprinting just to stand still will never end, it slowly begins ...

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By Gordon Cairns

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Gordon Cairns is an English teacher and education journalist in the UK.

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