Reading Speed and Techniques
Reading Speed and Techniques
Being able to read well – fast and with understanding – is essential for good study and incisive thought. Here you can see both techniques on reading, and thoughts about the reading process too.
Analysing Sheila Birling: 20 minute screencast on a Student Response
OMAM controlled assessment
Our year 10s have been booked in to complete the extended reading controlled assessment, and to do so we are using Of Mice and Men. Our long-term schemes of work mean we focus mostly on the literature aspect of the course in the first year, although we do complete the...
Methods of Reading
Methods of Reading
Reading Speed and Techniques
Reading Speed and Techniques
Applying concepts of Denotation and Connotation to the Matrix Twins Video
I recently watched the Matrix again, and wondered to which extent the video of the Albino twins reflected the tension (and nature) of how connotation/denotation act in the world outside books, and how interpretation affects reality. If the denotation/connotation,...
Teaching a teenager how to read – thoughts from an English teacher
Increasingly I am drawn to analyse data, largely because it makes my teaching more interesting to me. Summative Data on English ability, though, should be considered nonsense. Teaching a child cannot be reduced to a grade, especially if that grade is only summative...
A short essay on evaluation
This evening I decide to write an essay for my students in Year 9. It is an essay for any student or thinker of any age, but it continues a conversation started in class. Touching upon dreams, perception and the nature of "evalution" (our key term to prove progress),...
Thoughts of how to evaluate
A colleague asked me about this for A-Level, so I produced a small work pack in a PPA. Interesting task, the kind of stuff that paperwork often isn't! One way of planning and writing evaluations The issue with (many) evaluations is that they lack a focus. The...
Teaching Research Skills
There is often (righteous) argument raging in schools across the world about what should be taught to students - often more by those who aren't at the chalk face. Some excellent (and satirical) blogs question the idea of learning 'skills' and suggest that there was a...
Examples of detective styles
For my Year 8s, they are creating a detective for a murder mystery at the end of the year. One of my colleagues has made some excellent progress with this, and suggested the following videos for exemplar detective styles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZiv8vkxMac –...
