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Building a Sixth Form Curriculum: Literature
This summer I was promoted to Head of KS5 Literature, leading a team of six people. I enjoyed the support of some very experienced teachers, including a principal examiner and ex-Head of an elite Asian school. We needed to switch from an AS course to a linear approach...
Metacognition – Guiding students to sense the right time to use strategies
My training for staff at the start of this year focuses on making screencasts. You can see a video summary of the training below. It aims to frame screencasting exemplars as a useful stimulus to stimulating metacognition practice. Following my study on metacognition,...
Book Review: Notes from the Jungle: Provocative Teacherspeak
Notes from the Jungle is an engagingly provocative book from a working international headteacher. Quirky and irreverent, it reads like lectures between cafe conversations. It begins with a range of salubrious anecdotes about feckless and petty teachers getting up to...
Book Review: The Damage Done: A Macabre Love Island
The Damage Done is a compelling part of the relatively popular niche of prison experience books. Warren Fellows smuggles drugs across Asia until he is caught and sentenced to 30 years, of which he serves 11 before enjoying a King’s Pardon. Despite claiming to not want...
Book Review: The Hunger: Punctured Horror
Two days ago I purchased ‘The Hunger’ as one of my top (read ‘promoted’) books after a Kindle recommendation. It is based descent into cannibalism of the Donner Party. For some reason, I was expecting a slow psychological horror. The story, therefore, left me more...
Book Review: Othello: Noble Jealousy?
This is my first review of a Shakespearean play. A Shakespearean play a peculiar thing considering that he is experienced by most British through statuary study. Such study is mandatory because Shakespeare is difficult, especially to study on the page. Most people who...
Book Review: Paris in the 20th Century: Lost for a Reason?
Paris in the 20th Century is the long-lost literary artefact of a great sci-fi writer. I was guided to this book by a student for his coursework. As with all good literature students, he has almost read the corpus of Verne's work. It was surprisingly hard to obtain a...
Book Review: Jane Eyre: Virtue at What Cost?
Jane Eyre is a gothic story of love and redemption that is both smart and honest. I found it far more accessible than Wuthering Heights, equally ambitious, and much more moral as well. As a bildungsroman, the first-person narrative reveals a mind defining itself...
Book Review: Heart of Darkness: Nothingness and Making Money
Heart of Darkness is one of my favourite texts despite, or perhaps because of, its absolute ambiguity. Even at university I found it deceptive tricky. Initially part of a book of three novellas, its ambiguity and concept made it unpopular, even with Conrad. I think...
Book Review: No Baboons in India: Frank Memoirs from an International Headteacher
The TES is a popular website for teachers. It used to host an excellent overseas forum until the community was ushered away by a bizarre redesign. Until that happened, I enjoyed reading the amusingly wry anecdotes and responses of 'Mainwaring', a secret Headteacher of...