Tough Young Teachers
Genre	Factual
Directed by	Rachel Harvie
Narrated by	John Dagleish
Theme music composer	Tim Atack
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	David DeHaney Fiona Campbell Maxine Watson
Producers	Ross Anderson Sandi Scott
Cinematography	Nick Plowright
Editors	Stephen Devlin Peter Hein
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Victory Television
Original release
Network	BBC Three BBC Three HD
Release	9 January (2014-01-09) – 13 February 2014 (2014-02-13)

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.

Episode list

Schools

• Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon
• Crown Woods College, Southeast London
• The Harefield Academy, Uxbridge

Reception

Ratings

According to overnight figures, the first two episodes had audience shares of 3.0% and 2.2% respectively.^[2][3] The fourth episode was watched by 683,000 (3.0%).^[4]