Category: For Living
Guest Post – An English Literature Workshop with Myself, Age 14
Today’s post is an Oxbridge student’s reflection on what she would say to her...
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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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Thoughts about the Purpose of IB: Reprioritising Reader-Response in Literature
English teaching’s essential purpose in our politicised times is to make students culturally...
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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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In Cold Blood – Playing With Genre
In True Blood is another dark read, distinctly American and impressively literary. It is a text...
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TedX Presentation on Confidence: No Difference between Real and Fake Confidence?
A student that I taught at the beginning of my international career spoke profoundly well at a...
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Book Review: Wonder by RJ Palacio – Collisions of Kindness
This is a young adult story about kindness and identity. Its story can instigate useful...
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Differences between a learner and a doer
Over the past five years or so I have been increasingly struck by the need to judge learning by...
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Content vs Specification: Thoughts about KS5 Planning
This year I have taken on the running of our KS5 literature specification. It has been an...
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Building a Sixth Form Curriculum: Literature
This summer I was promoted to Head of KS5 Literature, leading a team of six people. I enjoyed the...
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Book Review: Notes from the Jungle: Provocative Teacherspeak
Notes from the Jungle is an engagingly provocative book from a working international headteacher....
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Book Review: The Hunger: Punctured Horror
Two days ago I purchased ‘The Hunger’ as one of my top (read ‘promoted’) books after a Kindle...
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