Tough Young Teachers

Tough Young Teachers
GenreFactual
Directed byRachel Harvie
Narrated byJohn Dagleish
Theme music composerTim Atack
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • David DeHaney
  • Fiona Campbell
  • Maxine Watson
Producers
  • Ross Anderson
  • Sandi Scott
CinematographyNick Plowright
Editors
  • Stephen Devlin
  • Peter Hein
Running time60 minutes
Production companyVictory Television
Original release
Network
Release9 January (2014-01-09) –
13 February 2014 (2014-02-13)
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Tough Young Teachers is a British documentary television series that was first broadcast on BBC Three on 9 January 2014. The six graduate teachers featured in the series are Charles Wallendahl (University of Oxford), Chloe Shaw (Royal Holloway, University of London), Claudenia Williams (University of Birmingham), Meryl Noronha (King's College London), Nicholas Church (Imperial College London) and Oliver Beach (University of Birmingham & Cornell University). The six graduates are assigned to challenging schools within London by the educational charity Teach First. The programme tracks the difficulties that they face and the progress that they make in their first year of teaching.