Thoughts about Duffy from Rees-Jones’ Book ‘Writers and Their Work’
Yesterday I read about 50 pages of Rees-Jones’ book of Duffy’s work. Despite...
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Category: For School
Improving Inference as an English Teacher
Teaching students how to read is not really the remit of the secondary classroom teacher. It is a...
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Being a Lifelong Learner – Thoughts about Teaching After 15 Years (and why most teachers don’t improve after 3-5 years)
An Easter of reading raises some old truisms: That most teachers do not ‘improve’...
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Podcast Libraries – Educating Yourself beyond a Curriculum
Teaching students for fifteen years has allowed me to recognise some of the deficiencies of my...
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The Vegetarian Book Review: Planting Desire and Rooting Order?
The Vegetarian is a dark book that has sat with me for a few weeks now. Conventionally about the...
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A Question on Frankenstein: Walton’s Change in Perspective
A student recently asked me a question in the run-up to our Xmas Mocks. I include the question as...
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Reading and Writing as Planning
Those who can do. Those who can’t, teach. What is it that English teachers do if they are...
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Do English teachers need charisma?
English teachers are usually charismatic. The act of reading and considering poetry and drama...
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Using Accelerated Reader: Report Commissioned for the NATE ICT Committee
Here is a report I submitted a few years ago based upon my experiences of implementing Accelerated...
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Metacognition – Guiding students to sense the right time to use strategies
My training for staff at the start of this year focuses on making screencasts. You can see a video...
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Book Review: A Streetcar Named Desire: The Myth of Chivalry
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play I am teaching this year. Its influence in post-war literature...
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Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale: Any Questions?
The Handmaid’s Tale is a story I’ve reread three times, each time slower than the last. At...
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