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Saving Teacher’s TV
It's been a long time since I've updated this website, even though I have thirty odd posts drafted. Truth be told, I've struggled over the past year with managing my time to take the fifteen-twenty minutes to update it with the right tone. One thing that everyone...
Wallwisher – Now Padlet.
In the lieu of exams, snow and the final weeks of term, I was looking for something useful, engaging and, frankly, easy to run. My boss suggested creating revision materials for the wall. While I wanted to use sugar paper, I had been looking at www.wallwisher.com for...
Random Dice
My year 7s have recently taken a Christmas break from a creative writing project. Much like the Choose Your Own Adventure, we ended each lesson on the students picking on of two cliffhangers, and rolling a dice to decide which would form the basis of the next story....
Daily Cultural Capital
I always refer to necessity of cultural captial when I teach in anecdotes. Alan Bennett gives a great reason in his superb play The History Boys: ”Words said in that reverential way that is somehow Welsh. That's what the tosh is for. Brief Encounter, Gracie Fields,...
Visual Thesaurus
Sometimes encouraging pupils to produce literature coursework is difficult because the spirit isn't willing. While they see the adult-needs purpose of getting an English qualification, I have sometimes heard voiced the objection that they find discussing the...
Creative Writing and Hard Copy Publishing
There is something about the physical feel of a book in your hands that will never change. While I'm yet to purchase a kindle - and the requisite pair of glasses to go with it - I don't fancy taking one into the bath (apologies to our Librarian, I don't take books...
BETT show 2010
As this honorary Yorkshire man headed back from the BETT show, he felt a hearty, still queasy, appreciation of the shortness of my daily commute. For all my travelling when younger, and for all my international classroom collaboration now, I really don’t travel well...
Demonstrating reading skills in the last week of summer
It's been a busy few week to say the least, especially with planning for the new curriculum. Doing this requires the reading of lots and lots of text. Too much, perhaps. Still, the skill of speed reading was rather useful. It is at this moment that you consider using...
The Quill Guy is launched
“But why do we have to learn English? Don’t we speak it already?”
If you heard this familiar – if flippant – remark from a student, how would you react? Perhaps, if consider yourself as diligent as The Quill Guy during his teacher training, you might have responded with one of the following:
JISC Collections – A review
‘Promoting innovation’ is part of JISC’s mission statement in FE, so to bring JISC Collections into the classroom you will need to be resourceful. As an inventive NQT, I should admit I was hoping that JISC Collections – a compendium of discounted research materials –...