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Challenge for All: #PracPed18
This is a write up of my talk from Practical Pedagogies in Cologne, November 2018. ‘Unapologetically ambitious, unashamedly academic’ This is the mantra I share with my students at the...Continue reading→
Seven ways I’ve kicked my homework habit…
In ten years of teaching, I am embarrassed to say, I have never managed to do homework right. It has always felt like an extra thing; to plan, to remember,...Continue reading→
Memory and Recall: Practical Strategies for a Linear World
This post is based on my talk at ‘Teaching and Learning Leeds: Encouraging the Leader Within’ on 23rd June 2018. Teaching is fundamentally about making the best possible use of the...Continue reading→
Vocabulary Flood
Foundations I am very blessed to work in a school where most of my students have a talent I do not possess. Over 75% of our students speak something other...Continue reading→
differentiation (with a small ‘d’)
This post is based on workshops I have led this summer at both the Leeds Trinity University NQT Conference, and at Teaching and Learning Leeds 2017 (hosted by The Grammar...Continue reading→
27 English reading and analysis resources which work!
The creativity and generosity of the online teaching community never ceases to amaze me. I have spent a couple of weeks collating resources for my department from my Twitter back...Continue reading→
A Level Literature Ideas – #3: Mood Boards
Literature at A Level has traditionally been a very essay driven course; there are very few specifications which allow any element of creative writing, and even these are optional swap-ins...Continue reading→
A Level Literature Ideas – #2: Essay Planning
The key to all good writing is shape; when to be broad and when to be narrow, when to charge ahead and when to circle back. In a previous post...Continue reading→
A Level Literature Ideas – #1: Writing Introductions
Introductions and conclusions always seem like quite abstract things, threatening to book end an essay with vague statements and ‘summing up’. However, done right, an introduction serves as the perfect...Continue reading→
Vocabulary Project: Part 2 – technical terminology for high ability learners
When we were initially trained on vocabulary teaching by Jane Dallas, she separated words out into three classes. 1. Everyday words you need to communicate simple things (mum, dad, tree…)...Continue reading→