EduStories - Stories from the teaching world

Issue 09 / 2026A magazine of classroom stories written by teachersHELSINKI · GLOBAL

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Teacher voices

After 300 IB students I stopped treating maths anxiety as a confidence problem and started treating it as a structure problem.

One unglamorous routine at the start of every lesson did more for my students' grades than any resource I bought.

Not a sales pitch and not a test. Thirty minutes to find out what the learner has been avoiding.

Three signs that the course I designed in March is now holding a student back in June.

Telling a family that the exam date is unrealistic is the most useful thing I do all year.