My best lesson
Teachers share their most inspiring and innovative lessons
My best PE lesson: I turned students into their teachers' personal trainers
A US teacher turned physical education on its head, getting students to put together fitness routines for teachers. He describes how colleagues were put through their paces
How I teach students about equality: only Smarties have the answer
Agnes Arnold-Forster shares her best lesson, engaging young students in philosophical debates about injustice and equality with a little help from the chocolate treats
My best lesson: I don't have one
Teachers can spend hours planning lessons with bells and whistles. But the essential thing is that our students learn at a steady pace and we don't go under with stress
My best science lesson: why history is essential to engage students
'Neglecting the rich history of science when teaching it is a missed opportunity to connect the subject to the world around us.' Andrew Holding on how he teachers the Haber-Bosch process
Using project-based learning to engage students with politics
Teacher John Bosselman explains how he devised a cross-curricular challenge – spanning citizenship, literature and art – to help students engage with complex social issues
My best citizenship lesson: using pens and paper to teach digital citizens
Teacher Holly Fairbrother explains how she uses English lessons to prepare her students for the world of blogging, without letting them loose online
My best English lesson: using rugby to engage boys in descriptive writing
How do you immerse boys in the scrum of similes and senses used in descriptive writing? You could transform your classroom into a rugby stadium, explains teacher Matt James
My best science lesson: dissecting cow brains to explore intelligence
Seeing my year 4s, dressed in white lab coats, scalpels in hand was quite an unforgettable experience – for me and them, writes Thomas Henley
My best citizenship lesson: faking news and sparking riots for digital natives
Teacher Emma Chandler shares her tips on how to make reactionary students question what they read in the media
My best science lesson: how I sent year 5 into space
Year 5 teacher David May reveals how sending out one tweet snowballed into an amazing collaborative project with astronauts on the International Space Station
My best politics lesson: using social media to connect pupils and politicians
Mike Britland's students took to Twitter to learn about political ideologies and debates. He explains how the lesson helped them feel part of the system
My best history lesson: teaching Northern Ireland and the Troubles
To immerse his students, James Cannon pulled out the PE bibs and created a classroom divide
My best ICT lesson: algorithms and binary meets Dungeons and Dragons
Inspired by the book Computational Fairy Tales, Chris Leach created a fantasy world for his ICT class to introduce them to computational thinking
Memorable history lessons: dress up, role play and personal stories
Neil Bates explains how turning up to class dressed in a 1920s frock helped to engage his pupils
Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language
Sarah Swann loves to insult her students - just as long as it is in the words of the Bard
How a Dragons' Den-style careers class developed my students' speaking skills
English teacher Laura Rowlands got students to 'sell' whoopee cushions, rubber ducks and pink cowboy hats as a way to practice speaking and interview skills
A geocaching treasure hunt helped my students learn about the landscape
Deputy headteacher Stephen Lockyer went geocaching along Hadrian's Wall to show students how to use maps, co-ordinates and GPS
Teaching molecules using games, Gangnam Style and retro 3D posters
Chemistry teacher Rich Thornley is helping pupils get to grips with molecular geometry using interactive games and magic eye posters
My Spanish students write their own plays to improve their English vocab
Role play and interactive technology helped primary teacher Jeremy Dean increase his foreign students' English vocabulary at a language immersion school in Spain
My best lesson: I get my psychology students to assess my mental health
Natalie Minaker proves that the best way to help pupils understand the label of mental illness in psychology lessons is to let them assess your sanity
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