‘We do it already’ – Teaching Metaphor
Teaching metaphor is fundamental to understanding your language, your perception and our culture....
Read MoreTeaching metaphor is fundamental to understanding your language, your perception and our culture....
Read MoreThe act of planning a single lesson plan for review is a necessary but problematic element of teaching. Geoff Petty, an educationalist whose consequentialist approach influences contemporary thought, says expert teachers do not necessary focus their planning on one-off lessons, but rather on the ‘bigger picture’. That bigger picture can include ideas for outside the class, adult-needs models of education, wider elements of cultural capital, and even just the assessment that the students are building towards.
Read MoreStudents 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.
Read MoreIn 2018 my school uses Go4Schools that sees us data put online for ease of analysis from our data...
Read MoreExample of how to revise quotations from a text, in this case the Crucible. This video gained 1.5k...
Read MoreGood visuals on a PowerPoint enhance thinking and therefore learning. Working in a school that...
Read MoreDavid Petty, the name in collating evidenced-based teaching methods and justifications, says that...
Read MoreThis year I want to focus on improving the learning of literature at KS4 where students are...
Read MoreIn preparation for a whole-staff INSET on seating plans, I’d thought I’d update what I...
Read MoreThe most important aspect of planning for me is the Daily Planning by the teacher. It needs to...
Read MoreOfsted don’t require a lesson plan. And there are rare times when a lesson should follow its...
Read MoreDiscussion in my school has often turned in the past two years to the notion of didactic teaching....
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