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Mentoring KS4 Students
Each year we have KS4 mentoring. This is essentially coffee and biscuits (without the coffee) I believe that talking about some time management tactics, and some aspirations, is useful enough. To give students some undivided attention to talk about their hopes...
Time Management – some thoughts
Teaching is a job that never ends. An English teacher has a substantial workload each weekend. Rightly so, in many ways. One Headteacher said that every lesson requires an hour before and an hour afterwards of preparation and assessment. In practice, this time varies....
Emphasis – I never said she stole my money
Seeing as this post has been linked to by a popular culture site, I'd thought it should be suitably introduced. Alan Bennett spoke of how low-culture provided an 'antidote' to the 'high-culture' of 'general studies'. He praised knowledge that was 'specific' and often...
Doodling
Some students concentrate through doodling. At least one teacher doodles during meetings, and I have seen this in a NATE (National Association for the Teaching of English) committee meeting. However, such doodling takes place on scrap or note paper. If it is on...
Homework Year 11 – Monday
Finish tasks started in class. The following paraphrases the tasks: Anil - 1) Pick out the words: Select at least two words for each category (preferably between 3-5), and choose two of your own categories. 2) The Tree: Pick at least two quotations relating to the...
Creating a school calendar
One project to save time is creating a school calendar. Often the systems in doing so are not reliant on the technology but rather the human system that populates it. Currently we create a school calendar using excel. Our office manager does an excellent job in...
Improving lesson Planning – Reflection on January to February 2012
The past five weeks I have attempted to invigorate my planning. I had twenty five days of teaching, so I aimed to establish 25 different starters. I initially divided them into five areas: writing, s&l, general, comparison chart, and spelling. This was perhaps...
PGCE Advice
Looking back on four years ago when I qualified, it was a great year. This made it better: a) The more work you can do in the evenings, the easier the next day will be. b) Have a time of the week when you do no work. At all. Mine was typically Friday evening. c) Get a...
PGCE advice book
Found an excellent book on the logistics of beginning a PGCE written by a recent NQT and crowdsourced by Twitter. You can have it printed and delivered for under a £10, or download it for free here:...
Designing Websites – some initial thoughts
At university, and for the few years afterwards, I ran an indie publishers. This was in the days before serious social networking and (affordable) home broadband. I had to bike back from work and stop at the university library to use their broadband internet. All my...