Thursday, 25 September 2014

'Of Mice and Men' - 5 ideas to help make the final two years of teaching this text the best

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  #1 Crowdsourcing I'm loving the shiny name given to this idea by @EducatingCCC, so am adopting it as my own! This is an idea tha...
Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Making Matthew rich: practical strategies for building word wealth

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This blog could also be titled ‘An Ode to Geoff Barton’ as, like many other English teachers, his elegant and emotive speeches  are how I ...
Thursday, 19 June 2014

Trite but true: teenagers are ace.

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It's the worst time to write this blog. I'm frantically trying to create a new timetable, a new engaging KS3 curriculum, a new acc...
Tuesday, 6 May 2014

GCSE revision that REVIVES! (Updated March 2015)

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Are you losing the will to live in your final lessons with Year 11? Join the club. Here are a couple of the more creative strategies I...
Sunday, 6 April 2014

'We're doing English now."

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The title of this post comes from a comment I received following my recent Performance Management observation: "You make it clear We...
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Sunday, 30 March 2014

In pursuit of the holy grail: the ten commandments of frequent, high quality marking

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1. Thou shalt know your audience What the gloriously word-packed A3 APP epics did for us English lot was remind us that we are pedagogical...
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Sunday, 23 March 2014

How to develop a thicker skin

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The way I became Head of Faculty is a long and winding narrative that I am not going to unburden myself of here. Needless to say, it wasn...
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