HWRK Magazine: Creative Writing and Self-Regulation
I wrote this article for HWRK Magazine in January 2023 to walk through my process for teaching creative writing using reflection and self-regulation. You can read the whole piece here.
Metacognition
Modelling the Work Review
This is an extract from The Metacognition Handbook which was published by John Catt Edu in June 2021. Very often, we show students how to create a successful piece of work, but we don’t always show them how to quality assure it when they have finished. Students sometimes hand work in which is very obviously incorrect, or …
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 start of every academic year, and it’s something we return to when we need a boost. I am currently teaching in the same community where …
Marginal Gains with Controlled Assessments
My Year 11 boys are getting restless and, since coming back from their mock exams, they have no focus… GCSEs feel miles away for them (all of four months) and they still have half a novel and a 25% literature CA to go. The answer for me is marginal gains. Alex Quiggley (@HuntingEnglish) has done …