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Sowing Seeds vs Ticking Boxes
I remember speaking some years back with a great leader about what it was to teach students ideas at a time when their minds were not ready to learn them. Being defiantly apathetic is the students most effective resistance to absorbing an idea (although connotative...
Beginning a Writing Module – Writing Distorts Reality Lesson
Tomorrow I begin the writing modules. I intend to research the teaching of writing, and to write more myself as once I did. In line with practice seen elsewhere, a booklet created with colleagues has been created, along with resources elsewhere. It covers the content...
Revising Purpose: Reviewing Wunderlist
It's been a fair while since I've posted here. That's fine. Life has been busy, and the mind has been stimulated. Work at the moment is busy. I am fortunate to work for a HoD that knows how busy English teaching can be, and they manage that workload tremendously well....
Finding new authors
From word of mouth, or through online communities, will find recommendations for books far more effectively than prescribed lists. My Feedly read this morning suggested this website that allows you, in the style of the visual thesaurus, to find new authors based on...
Focusing Pedagogy On Teaching Concepts, not just Doing Stuff #education, #edchat
Look at any major resource sharing website for teachers and you will see a task-based culture dominates. Students produce things, complete worksheets, and get to the end of books. Differentiation might (if at all) remove conceptual thinking requirements. You will see...
Pedagogy that focuses on learning concepts; not just doing stuff
Look at any major resource sharing website for teachers and you will see a task-based culture. You will see schemes of work that prioritise completing things over the pedagogy of thinking about things. Students learn by thinking. Thinking is an internal activity....
Total Participation Techniques: Reflection on Practice so Far
For much of my education, I have seen the asking of questions based upon one student at a time as inherent flawed. However, classroom exposition relies upon interspersed questions. There is a danger, of course, that students are not receptive to the exposition,...
Planning for broadsheets vs tabloids without losing sophistication in writing
Improving any kind of writing for KS4 audience is in the planning. Strong students have experience planning; it is prioritised in their classroom, and they enjoy multiple occasions of practice. Weaker students focus almost entirely on the sentence level aspects of...
The Importance of Making Time
Thinking deeply and carefully is a virtue. Taking too long to do something hampers you. Classroom teaching is a peculiar job. It is a difficult, people based task. Just getting students to do stuff can be difficult enough in some schools. But I'm not talking about...
Creating a Conceptual Scheme of Work: Holes KS3
I have recently planned and taught an ambitious scheme of work for a Key Stage Three class in my non-selective school. For too long I taught literature with the idea that students would (and therefore, should) only read a complete text in class. Great teachers here...