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...
by thequillguy | Oct 15, 2016 | For Teachers
Look at any major resource sharing website for teachers and you will see a task-based culture dominates. Students produce things, complete worksheets, and get to the end of books. Differentiation might (if at all) remove conceptual thinking requirements. You will see...
by thequillguy | Sep 30, 2016 | For Teachers
Put thinking at the heart of lessons; not just doing stuff Putting cognitive science and thinking at the heart of lessons is my ambition. It is my overriding pedagogical priority. Differentiation is not only difficult; it can be counterproductive It is a truism that...
