Practical Teaching
Latest
Some reflections of updating my time management – February 2013
Any job worthy of endeavour requires the worker to sovereign over their time. There aren't many tasks in people-jobs that can simply be processed to completion. Time needs to be allocated, and life needs to roll on.
Conceptual Teaching
Latest
Seven Thoughts about Chapter Two of Erickson’s Concept-Based Learning
How do we address the need to continually teach ideas and skills in different subjects? Why does persuasive writing in English not seem to transfer to other subjects?
- How to Plan and Mark
- How to Teach Writing
- How to Teach Literature
- How to Teach Debate
Creating a Concept-Based Learning Plan for George Orwell’s 1984 – A Step-by-Step Guide plus Rationale
The purpose of an essay is to ‘attempt’ to explore an argument in order to see what you really think about it. Such dialect should invigorate society as it has done since The Garden of Athens. Yet who really likes writing, or reading, essays in school?
Focusing on Writing Composition for MA: why is this under-related to what the profession does?
The past few days I have been reading about writing composition with some interest as a synthesis...
What books should students read for A-Levels/IB or Undergraduate?
Students seeking success in literature should aim to read beyond the limits of the classroom. Each of these books have proved very useful for both my students and me in teaching and reading literature at the higher levels.
Our Focus for the Advanced Debaters This Year
Our club now boasts about twenty advanced debaters. That is, debaters who are at least 16 and...
