Category: How to Plan and Mark
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:
Read MoreLesson Plan Example iGCSE Literature – Cambridge 04575
The 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 MoreCreating 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?
Read More50 Initial Thoughts about Concept-Based Learning
This post serves as 50 initial thoughts about concept-based learning based on a course.
Read Morecan concept-based learning help you teach and write better thesis statements?
The Teaching of Literature Should be Led by Ideas Literature is not a subject in itself. It has a...
Read MoreWhy consider Concept-Based Curriculum? Five Necessary Thoughts
CBL aims to create intellectual character. This is a worthy mission. Not every teacher has the cultural literacy to do so immediately, but every teacher should have the tools to strive for intellectual character.
Read MoreBook Study on the First Chapter of Concept-Based Learning – 6 Questions
My classroom focuses on thinking. It prioritises academic thought, but it is inclusive of people that did not choose to take my subject. It is a place of dialectic where students are expected to argue for and against that they may or may not believe in, and to come to conclusions they can aptly defend.
Read MoreHow to Plan
‘How to plan lessons’ is the most common search term to arrive here because everyone...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreReading and Writing as Planning
Those who can do. Those who can’t, teach. What is it that English teachers do if they are...
Read MoreContent vs Specification: Thoughts about KS5 Planning
This year I have taken on the running of our KS5 literature specification. It has been an...
Read MoreAn example Markbook: using Formative Data to analyse trends
In 2018 my school uses Go4Schools that sees us data put online for ease of analysis from our data...
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