Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: The assumptions we make about quiet, obedient fema...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: The assumptions we make about quiet, obedient fema...: I walk into the room, holding a soap box. I place it in the middle of the room and step on it. I begin: I am going to be incredibl...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: That first blooming lesson and bleeding learning n...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: That first blooming lesson and bleeding learning n...: I have taught many first lessons in my time. In fact, I have taught more than a decade’s worth of first lessons. And, I have tried every...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The start of the school year and the return of the...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The start of the school year and the return of the...: As the start of term approaches, school leaders will be preparing a range of INSET and CPD activities designed to support the latest initia...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Canons to the left of me. Canons to the right of m...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Canons to the left of me. Canons to the right of m...: What books should be studied in schools? That one, single question is enough to divide people. Teachers. Schools. It is like the ultimate ...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: ‘Post-mortem Marking’ vs ‘Live Marking’

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: ‘Post-mortem Marking’ vs ‘Live Marking’: Again, I am writing about marking. Anybody, would think I have some deep-seated psychological issue with marking books. I don’t, honestly....

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: School Research Leads and the Use of Theories of A...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: School Research Leads and the Use of Theories of A...: If you are an evidence-based practitioner,  school research champion or school senior leader and interested in how to ‘overcome’ the resis...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Why teaching things in topics ‘might’ be bad? The ...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Why teaching things in topics ‘might’ be bad? The ...: In my quest to improve students I have, recently, jumped onto the glittery bandwagon of the Knowledge Bus and started looking at our cur...