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Focusing on Writing Composition for MA: why is this under-related to what the profession does?
The past few days I have been reading about writing composition with some interest as a synthesis of my interests since I last wrote. Writing composition seems the happy compromise between argumentative writing and analytical essays. Much of my current curriculum...
Dissertation Focus: Fiction Writing or Functional Writing? Or seeing how others do it?
After a fairly long time (over ten years) I began my educational MA with Bath University. While I think a subject-specific MA would be in a more established discipline, an educational MA promises vocational benefits. Quite whether those vocational benefits are to be...
Can Young’s concept of powerful knowledge, together with Bernstein’s theory of horizontal and vertical discourse, help to overcome some of the limitations of Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital in explaining the connection between lower socio-economic status and underachievement?
Can Young’s concept of powerful knowledge, together with Bernstein’s theory of horizontal and vertical discourse, help to overcome some of the limitations of Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital in explaining the connection between lower socio-economic status and...
How does metacognition benefit learners and learning in English and what are the implications for learning in an international school?
How does metacognition benefit learners and learning in English and what are the implications for learning in an international school? Part 1: In what ways has metacognition been defined? “An unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates, from Plato's...
Offering verbal feedback (via OneNote) makes students actually think
This term, using OneNote, I have responded to students' essays using both verbal and written feedback. It has worked well. The process is: 1) Students paste their essay on a OneNote page. 2) They then copy and paste on the right of that essay a repeat essay. 3)...
Teaching well requires more nuance than can commonly be expressed… some thoughts.
David Petty, the name in collating evidenced-based teaching methods and justifications, says that expert teachers do not necessarily plan in detail individual lessons. However, if they speak about where the lessons are going, they enjoy a certain level of conceptual...
Time Management – Using a to-do lister
Teaching is meant to be a lifestyle. With a week to go, I remember how much this time of year has its own challenges. Now is the time to prepare for next year - to ensure all is up to date, and that as much as possible is in place. Yet the tension is to tie things...
Time Management: Thoughts and Advice September 2017
So the new school year is now in motion and it is typically busy. New staff have come with different experiences of time management at various stages in their career. I am impressed most, though, with the methods of an older colleague who seemingly just 'remembers' to...
Our Focus for the Advanced Debaters This Year
Our club now boasts about twenty advanced debaters. That is, debaters who are at least 16 and those who have debated for several years. Their general knowledge is astounding and all are superbly articulate. The focus for many, now, is framing. How do you represent the...
Cornell Notes and OneNote – Learning Literature Profoundly
This year I want to focus on improving the learning of literature at KS4 where students are learning to become more independent. The key question, as Dan Willingham says, is how do we actually get students to think? How can we do with a PowerPoint? From a social...