Hello and welcome to the new Guardian Teacher Network Blog.
Why the Guardian Teacher Network Blog? Well we thought it was high time that your fast growing community had its own place to discuss best practice in the classroom and a spot where we can shine a light into all areas of our rapidly growing teaching resources.
We know you already appreciate the Guardian Teacher Network resource library and find the weekly newsletter useful in locating materials to help you in class, and the blog won't replace that - it will just take it a bit further.
At GTN HQ we will continue to highlight the thousands of resources we have for you but we are asking you also to blog to your community when and if you feel like it.
You might want to talk about how you've used a Guardian Teacher Network resource in your classroom; you might want to talk about a resource of your own and why it works so well for your students; there may be something in the news which affects classroom teaching and you may want to comment on that; you may want to share with your community colleagues a cracking piece of good practice in teaching or whole school activity – managing student behaviour, for example, that you know about.
Whether you are teaching early years or sixth formers or whether you are newly qualified or an experienced school leader – you will have something to share with your colleagues in other parts of the country and the world and perhaps something to learn collegiately too.
So give yourself a voice in your wider professional community and contact us at teacher.network@guardian.co.uk. Put 'Blog' in the subject field and can you keep it to a maximum of 800 words – anything longer than that gets a bit too much in the blog format we feel.
This is your community and we have been delighted to realise how engaged you are with it by your many messages over the last few months. We hope you enjoy being centre stage – the place teachers deserve to be.
• Wendy Berliner is Head of Education for Guardian Business and professional, the media services arm of Guardian News and Media. An award winning educational journalist, she has spent much of her career on The Guardian and is now leading the team developing Guardian Teacher Network, a ground breaking online professional network for teachers everywhere.
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