Metacognition – Guiding students to sense the right time to use strategies
My training for staff at the start of this year focuses on making screencasts. You can see a video...
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Category: The Psychology of Teaching
The Psychology of Teaching
The Psychology of Teaching
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Resilient learners – few thoughts.
During a recent ‘OFSTED’ session where an Inspector came in to deliver an mid-week...
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Year 10 Macbeth – Prior to essay
I have been proud of how my Year 10s have approached their studies this term. Many of them will be...
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Motivation
Recently two new students have come to me requiring tutoring for their Shakespeare essays. As they...
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Why work for your exams?
That familiar question: why work for your exams? For the qualification? For the job? For the...
Read MoreWriting in class (using my website to write in front of the class)
Like I said earlier in my post yesterday, I wonder exactly how much writing I do in class, or rather how much writing I encourage my classes to do. Right now I am sitting in my classroom teaching a lesson. They say,...
Read MoreIn the best interests of our students?
Recently I have been concerned about what in my teaching practice really is in the best interest of the students. While we support students the best we can with a firm hand, I must admit that over the past few years I have felt...
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To blog or not to blog?
Our school perhaps doesn’t have the perfect culture for writing. However, our school does...
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Training English Teachers – ICT
Nick McGuinn, my ex-PGCE tutor at York University and all-round great man, invited me recently to...
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