To those who craft – new year resolutions?
The new year awaits us all, and no new resolutions are needed for me. Be healthy, read more, love...
Read MoreThe new year awaits us all, and no new resolutions are needed for me. Be healthy, read more, love...
Read MorePreparing a lesson Normally I prepare my lessons after marking so that my planning responds to my...
Read MoreSo much of my training has involved inspiring students for whom there is little intrinsic motivation for study. I have taught in schools where the consequences of this can be visceral. Teaching students like this is a different job, although you cannot separate good teaching from behaviour management (although you can separate behaviour management from good teaching, it seems). If a student trusts you and desire to work (often it is even just because of your persona as a teacher), the enable them to create and analyse at length outside an exam is an ambition not often mentioned.
Read MoreCBL aims to create intellectual character. This is a worthy mission. Not every teacher has the cultural literacy to do so immediately, but every teacher should have the tools to strive for intellectual character.
Read MoreAn Easter of reading raises some old truisms: That most teachers do not ‘improve’...
Read MoreThe Vegetarian is a dark book that has sat with me for a few weeks now. Conventionally about the...
Read MoreIn True Blood is another dark read, distinctly American and impressively literary. It is a text...
Read MoreA student that I taught at the beginning of my international career spoke profoundly well at a...
Read MoreEnglish teachers are usually charismatic. The act of reading and considering poetry and drama...
Read MoreMy training for staff at the start of this year focuses on making screencasts. You can see a video...
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