The Best Instagram Teachers to Follow Today!

Instagram is full of teachers sharing ideas, displays and teaching resources for other fellow teaching enthusiasts to see. But, many accounts share unrealistic expectations on what your classroom 'should' look like which, as with many other social media streams, can cause stress, anxiety and make teachers feel that they are failing compared to others. However, if you filter through the glitter and triple backed displays, you can find teachers who are doing a great job at sharing some amazing teaching ideas that you can easily apply into your own schools and classrooms.

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Adam Hill

Adam Hill is a passionate and dedicated primary teacher from the UK, now teaching at Victoria Shanghai Academy, a bilingual PYP school in Hong Kong. 

He is an Innovation Lead for his school and currently teaches Year 3 students. He is an avid user of social media and a great believer in the power of a PLN. 

Adam's social media keeps you updated on his blog which is intended to be a platform for learning, reflecting and sharing good practice. 

He specialises is technology, STEAM and child led learning sharing his thoughts, experiments and accomplishments in the classroom while he also explores the global teaching community.

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Technology and STEAM focused learning from an International Teacher.

Mr Early Years

Mr Early Years is a Nursery Teacher who shares great free flow activities that can easily be created in any EYFS setting.

His play based activities are engaging for children and visually appealing. As he would say himself, invitation to play is his thing!

His learning stations range across the curriculum. From free flow phonics, number and shape through to The World focused activities.

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Visually appealing Early Years ideas and resources for free flow.

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Good Morning Ms Foster

Good Morning Ms Foster​ creates resources that focus on ‘the hidden curriculum’, the ones that most governments aren’t interested in. Think resilience, collaboration, creativity and mindfulness.

Through The Foster Project, she focuses on these ‘soft skills’ both for children and teachers.  Her aim is to ensure resources are accessible for educators to incorporate in the classroom.

Additionally, she mentors teachers through her own mentorship programme entitled Foster Our Teachers, because she believes teaching is one of the most challenging jobs and many teachers end up learning this the hard way.

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Mindfulness, wellbeing and reflection for both children and their teachers!

For Teachers

For teachers are two like-minded, positive thinking teachers who have been working in the UK and internationally for the past 6 years.

They both focus on tips and tricks targeted at Newly Qualified Teachers and Student Teachers.

Their aim is to share their experiences and suggestions with the teaching community and create a positive space for educators to share their ideas. Their content is focused on how teachers can manage themselves as professionals and students.

With tips on how to approach placements and managing a work life balance, For Teachers do exactly what it says on the tin. They create content for teachers by teachers.

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Vlogs for Student Teachers and NQTs on how to approach teacher life and organise yourself in and out of school!

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Miss Learning Bee

Miss Learning Bee has been teaching since 2010 in Australia - mostly in K-2 classrooms. 

Her passion and love is Art and Literacy, particularly writing and synthetic phonics. Her creativity shines through her Instagram page -  sharing her effective classroom learning displays and resources.

She believes teachers need to make learning as fun as possible for students so that they develop a life-long love of learning.

She is also a big believer in the importance of teaching kids to be kind and how to look after each other.

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Literacy and Phonics delivered in an artist and visually appealing way for children!

Teach. Travel. Triumph.

After a few videos, Tom realised he could share his teaching experiences, challenges and ideas with a global community.

Teaching, Travelling and just generally trying to Triumph is what he focused on most and this is something he wants to share with teachers across the world, particularly now he has become an international teacher out in Dubai.

Tom shares vlogs and posts focused on his experiences in his classroom, the community of the UAE and the travel opportunities his international career presents to him.

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Honest international teaching sharing thoughts, questions and everyday teaching challenges!

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Mr Minchin

Mr Minchin's page is never dull. It is full of creative, practical learning opportunities that take learning outside of the classroom and generally outside of the norm.

Starting his career in law, Minchin switched to Primary Education and has been sharing his Science, STEM and practical ideas on twitter and instagram ever since.

He creates handy clips about his own lesson plans, craft projects or useful tips for teachers.

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STEAM activities at their finest and with added enthusiasm - what learning should all be about!

Mrs B. Teaching

Mrs. B is a Literacy leader and Year One enthusiast. She shares simple but effective teaching strategies, learning stations and activities that simplify learning for younger children.

She writes about her life both in and outside of school including the resources she collects and how she implements them effectively.

Unlike, many other instagram teachers, her classrooms are engaging for children without being too picture perfect. She shares a realistic but creative window into her classroom environment.

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Creative and visually appealing resources for KS1 teachers without setting unrealistic expectations!

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ICT Mr P.

Mr P has been a classroom teacher for over 10 years and still works part-time in school. He is also now an ADE and works internationally with schools looking to embed technology to transform learning.

​He puts pedagogy at the heart of everything he does and is on a mission to get more schools working ‘smarter, not harder' through digital technology.

His Instagram links through to various tutorials on how to use digital technology. It is his memes and humorous teaching references however, that bring his feed to life and make his page one to follow

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Teaching memes and spoof videos combined with 'How to' videos focus on on Ed Tech!

Teacher of Sci

Paul Stevens-Fulbrook is a high school science teacher and head of KS3 Science. His classroom is his stage, his theatre and it’s all for one reason….engagement! However, Paul found teaching and work life balance a struggle.

He discovered very quickly that he wasn’t alone and many teachers the world over had the same issues as he did.

Teacher of Sci shares both humour and practical tips of managing yourself as a teacher and combining it with useful engaging teaching strategies. He draws upon other bloggers to write guest posts and articles that are both relevant to Secondary and Primary educators.

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Blogger, Vegan and Science Teacher drawing on the best teaching ideas across the web.

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