by thequillguy | Sep 25, 2018 | For School, For Students, For Teachers, Literature
English teachers are usually charismatic. The act of reading and considering poetry and drama makes for strong and interesting personalities, usually. This is usually translated into a classroom persona. Yet is this a necessity? Like some Twitterarti worry, is...
by thequillguy | Sep 1, 2018 | For School, For Teachers, Lesson Planning, Metacognition, The Psychology of Teaching
My training for staff at the start of this year focuses on making screencasts. You can see a video summary of the training below. It aims to frame screencasting exemplars as a useful stimulus to stimulating metacognition practice. Following my study on metacognition,...
by thequillguy | Aug 19, 2018 | Book Clubs, For Teachers
The TES is a popular website for teachers. It used to host an excellent overseas forum until the community was ushered away by a bizarre redesign. Until that happened, I enjoyed reading the amusingly wry anecdotes and responses of ‘Mainwaring’, a secret...
by thequillguy | Aug 19, 2017 | For School, For Teachers, Reading for School
This is a short presentation I delivered at a Spark event (TeachMeet) organised by the wonderful Rachael Edgar. Essentially it proposes the teaching of context and comparative audience response at the same time. Inspired from the practice of Peter...
by thequillguy | Feb 18, 2017 | For Life, For School, For Teachers, Writing, Writing for School
Tomorrow I begin the writing modules. I intend to research the teaching of writing, and to write more myself as once I did. In line with practice seen elsewhere, a booklet created with colleagues has been created, along with resources elsewhere. It covers the content...
