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Teaching Descriptive Writing in Students: Techniques leading to Tone
Gunther Kress procatively declared that teaching students creative writing was a pointless task given just how few will actually do so upon leaving school. It is a point that, when argued through such a lens of an adult-needs model of education, is hard to argue...
Aiming for a Conceptual Curriculum: Some thoughts
Put thinking at the heart of lessons; not just doing stuff Putting cognitive science and thinking at the heart of lessons is my ambition. It is my overriding pedagogical priority. Differentiation is not only difficult; it can be counterproductive It is a truism that...
Debating in Form Groups: Devil’s Advocate, Po, and Speed Debates
Click below to download devils-advocate-debate conventional-speed-debate In terms of debating as a form activity, there are two conditions to consider: a) How much preparation time? b) How much expected participation? The Speed Debate is more substantial, and put less...
My Theory of Learning: Thoughts in 2016
At the start of my Education MA (long overdue!) I am writing my theory of learning. After 12+ years of classroom teaching, with all its relentless endeavour and aspiration and questioning, this is something near to what I think. Reactions from immediate colleagues...
Beginning a New Year: Simple Ambitions to Think
Tomorrow, with the arrival of my students, will be another new start, the beginning of the thirteenth year teaching. The feeling is familiar; things will be better this time. Of course, the fallibilities of humankind mean that such ambitions must meet the varied...
KS5 Introduction Lesson
New MTPs for 2016-17: Efficiency… 10 ambitions
And so it comes to that time in the holiday when I look ahead to the next year and to engage in the kind of thinking (and planning) that is too hard to do under the regimes of classroom teaching and marking. A tremendous amount of organisation and planning has already...
English Media Centre resources: the best independent publications for classroom teachers?
Great resources are hard to come by. The quality of textbooks is erratic. TES resources can be great: often they are one-off lessons based on performance. The kind of materials necessary to promote thinking need to link in to a wider programme of work. Not just that,...
Ten points on thinking and learning in teaching today
I met at length recently with some education entrepreneurs about what I do and why l do it. We spoke about the benefits of the British education system, and its aspiration to encourage thinking about knowledge. While very right, it made me consider a few points I've...
Ambitions to Study: Thirteen Years after University
While a leader needs to be strategic, they need to lead others by example. A general cannot fight in the trenches, at least not when he has responsibility for the larger war. Yet, in principle, I believe you have to put yourself in a position where you do what you...