Practical Teaching
LatestThrowback – Thoughts on preparing lessons on a Sunday Evening in 2012
Preparing a lesson Normally I prepare my lessons after marking so that my planning responds to my...
Conceptual Teaching
LatestWhat do we want to measure in schools and why
I received a thoughtful email from a colleague this week. My (redacted!) reply is worth sharing: ...
- How to Plan and Mark
- How to Teach Writing
- How to Teach Literature
- How to Teach Debate
Planning a lesson for interview – revealing a philosophy of teaching and learning
These past few years I have both seen and delivered a number of interview lessons. I believe these lessons reflect the philosophy of the observer as much as they do the capability of the teacher. The stakes for an interview lesson are high: will you be given a job? Or as an observer, can you judge that that teacher's wider operation? These outcomes are pragmatically important but also reflect more profound approaches to the profession. So with this tension in mind, here are some of the ways I think about interview lessons:
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...