Practical Teaching Archives

Throwback – Thoughts on preparing lessons on a Sunday Evening in 2012

by thequillguy | Nov 9, 2020 | For Teachers, Practical Teaching | 0 |

Preparing a lesson Normally I prepare my lessons after marking so that my planning responds to my...

fifteen Useful Ways I’ve Got Better Over the Past five Years

by thequillguy | Nov 1, 2020 | For Students, Practical Teaching | 0 |

As I begin a new job I am inclined to reflect on some of the ways I think my practice has got...

RAFT – A Model for Transition for Year 13 Students

by thequillguy | Aug 5, 2020 | For Students, Practical Teaching | 0 |

1. What did transition look like for you when you had moved from highschool to uni/ last country...

Lesson Plan Example iGCSE Literature – Cambridge 04575

by thequillguy | Jun 10, 2020 | Craft of Teaching, For Students, How to Plan and Mark, Practical Teaching | 0 |

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.

Some issues of the focus on close-analysis of literature – iGCSE and IB. How we do things differently?

by thequillguy | Jun 7, 2020 | For Students, Practical Teaching | 0 |

I think we’ve seen some students really lack motivation to tackle literature. It’s bigger than one classroom, and maybe even in one school. Kierkegaard bemoaned how the humanities were losing their true purpose (posing questions about how to lead a better life), and Rosenblatt believes the same, too.

Some reflections of updating my time management – February 2013

by thequillguy | Jun 2, 2020 | For Students, Practical Teaching | 0

Any job worthy of endeavour requires the worker to sovereign over their time. There aren’t many tasks in people-jobs that can simply be processed to completion. Time needs to be allocated, and life needs to roll on.

What books should students read for A-Levels/IB or Undergraduate?

by thequillguy | May 31, 2020 | Craft of Teaching, How to Teach Literature, Literary Context, Literature, Practical Teaching | 0 |

Students seeking success in literature should aim to read beyond the limits of the classroom. Each of these books have proved very useful for both my students and me in teaching and reading literature at the higher levels.

IB Lang/Lit Gallery Curation – The Experience of the Combatant

by thequillguy | May 30, 2020 | For Students, Practical Teaching | 0

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.

Creating a Concept-Based Learning Plan for George Orwell’s 1984 – A Step-by-Step Guide plus Rationale

by thequillguy | May 26, 2020 | How to Plan and Mark, Practical Teaching | 0 |

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?