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Seven Options when using a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 in the English Classroom
Technology I recently considered the technology I use and decided to upgrade my laptop. After spending an undue age trying to get the pen working, I settled on a Microsoft Surface Pro. It's a pricey bit of kit, but offers much to the savvy English teacher. Firstly,...
Enhancing PowerPoint in the classroom: Managing Attention
When I first started teaching, I absolutely needed a projector with PowerPoint. It was a wonderful tool to manage attention, and (as I started) the kind of behaviour necessary for learning. My latest school has enhanced my PowerPoint designs so they are now compelling...
Enhancing Planning for Teachers
For years I have enacted two kinds of planning - the planning that my students will see (PS), and the planning I , and my colleagues and inspectors, will see (PT). The principle of the PS that I do not write anything more than once, and that anything that anything the...
Using acting choices to emphasise words for connotation in An Inspector Calls
One way for students to understand form in plays is to make decisions to emphasise particular words through acting choices. Doing with difference versions of the same lines is useful: it allows the students to develop alternative interpretations. The next step...
Voicethread Link for KS3 Test
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Improving Reading in Students – Reading Reconsidered. A disturbing read for the National Literacy Strategy Generation
I was writing a generic post on improving reading in students recently when my Head of Department, the tremendous Louise Ford, recommended a book that delightfully disturbed me: Reading Reconsidered (Lemov). Having trained and taught in the UK comprehensive school...
Planning for Students Version 2 (Still Beta!) – Efficient Planning for Observation Standard Lessons
The desire to save time is a constant urge for teachers. The ability to drive the activities of a lesson to react to the students and their learning is a judicious aspiration. There is a limited number of tasks that students can do; these tasks are best done with an...
Music in Lessons (with Links) – Managing Ambience
Many years ago when I begun the regular moves that characterised my first jobs in teaching, I had to find a way to fill the tedious packing and unpacking. Luckily I found last.fm and filled the quiet boredom of box packing. www.lastfm.com The kind of music that I...
TKAMB Alternative Section B Answer June 2013 (Timed Conditions)
Note this example was created with solely integrated quotations (rather than expert reference to the text) in order to demonstrate this style. Ideally, you will have precise quotations chosen productively as the main points in each paragraph. The attitude of the...