Education Journal Magazine: Volume 1, Edition 1

Welcome to the Birmingham City University (BCU) Education Journal Magazine (EJM). We are excited to be publishing ten fantastic articles from across our education degrees and partnership in this edition. As we are all aware, 2020 has proven to be a very challenging year for everybody, regardless of who they are and what they do. Education in particular has faced its own challenges, remaining open throughout a national lockdown and for schools to plan for this within a very short time frame. How schools move forwards with current social distancing guidelines has also proven to be challenging; so hopefully this publication can offer some support, ideas and suggestions on how you could reflect and develop your own practice moving forwards. Contents: The Role of the ITT Subject Mentor by Kerry Taylor Facilitating Mentoring in Secondary Physical Education: A Mentor’s Perspective by Mike Stimpson How can trainee teachers manage pupil behaviour and differentiate appropriately to ensure effective progress is made by all pupils? by Kelly Slade Economies of Performance, Ecologies of Practice and Communities of Discovery: A collaborative approach to support Newly Qualified Teachers and their teacher identity by Dr. Chris Bolton Think POSH and use SPACE by Grant Huddleston The Rise of the ‘Tweecher’ by Kelly Davey-Nicklin The Gordian Knot of Teaching: Lockdown by Jessica Murtagh Expanding Low-Ability Students Vocabulary via Vygotsky’s Principles by Jasmin Gill There’s Always an Alternative by Stephen Sharp Academic Ableism in Higher Education by Dr. Shrehan Lynch & Dr. John Mackli