by thequillguy | Jul 18, 2019 | For School, For Students
Teaching students how to read is not really the remit of the secondary classroom teacher. It is a tremendously difficult task that ideally requires several MA-level qualifications and one-to-one time with students. It is a SENCO-level role that is very rarely funded...
by thequillguy | Jul 4, 2019 | Cultural Capital and Education, For Students
Exciting students in history opens them to wider cultural trends. In Beijing I ran, with the able and smart Welshman Aidan Jones, a Time Commanders ECA using the Total War series. Click here to visit the Time Commanders Website for an Example of this ECA
by thequillguy | Jun 9, 2019 | For Living, For School, For Students
Teaching students for fifteen years has allowed me to recognise some of the deficiencies of my early education. One choice every teenager needs to make in school is whether to follow a vocational or academic route. It is an impossible choice. I would define the...
by support_siteground | Jun 9, 2019 | For Students
by thequillguy | Jun 5, 2019 | Book Clubs, For Living, For School, For Students, For Teachers
The Vegetarian is a dark book that has sat with me for a few weeks now. Conventionally about the descent of a Korean woman into self-harm and mental illness via her change to a vegetarian lifestyle, it defies easy definition. Instead, I think it seeks to challenge...
by thequillguy | Jun 4, 2019 | For Living, For Students, For Teachers
In True Blood is another dark read, distinctly American and impressively literary. It is a text that manipulates genre, attempting to fuse a journalistic style with a free indirect discourse when presenting the perceptions of criminals. At its heart we meet our worst...
