IB Lang/Lit Gallery Curation – The Experience of the Combatant
This post shows an IB Lang/Literature Unit focusing on ‘The Experience of the Combatant for an IB Lang/Lit course I took in 2019.
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Category: Practical Teaching
Creating 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?
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Best Practice for Schools During the Coronavirus Lockdown — some thoughts in April 2020
I write this post during the Coronavirus lockdown. Like all schools closed in the 2020 pandemic we...
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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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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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An 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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15 minute screencast: Example of how to revise quotations from a text, in this case the Crucible.
Example of how to revise quotations from a text, in this case the Crucible. This video gained 1.5k...
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Enriching Visuals for Teaching PowerPoints: The Quill Guy’s Recommendations
Good visuals on a PowerPoint enhance thinking and therefore learning. Working in a school that...
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Teaching well requires more nuance than can commonly be expressed… some thoughts.
David Petty, the name in collating evidenced-based teaching methods and justifications, says that...
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Cornell Notes and OneNote – Learning Literature Profoundly
This year I want to focus on improving the learning of literature at KS4 where students are...
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A reflective video on using data in the classroom.
In preparation for a whole-staff INSET on seating plans, I’d thought I’d update what I...
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Different Types of Lesson Planning Part 2- Daily Planning
The most important aspect of planning for me is the Daily Planning by the teacher. It needs to...
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