Category: Speaking and Listening

3 ways to utilise didactic teaching methods – a critique

by thequillguy | Jan 15, 2013 | Craft of Teaching, For Living, For School, For Students, For Teachers, How to Plan and Mark, PGCE advice, Practical Teaching, Speaking and Listening | 0 |

Discussion in my school has often turned in the past two years to the notion of didactic teaching....

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Teaching a teenager how to read – thoughts from an English teacher

by thequillguy | Dec 30, 2012 | For Teachers, Methods of Reading, Reading, Speaking and Listening | 0 |

Increasingly I am drawn to analyse data, largely because it makes my teaching more interesting to...

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Examples of detective styles

by thequillguy | Jul 12, 2012 | For Teachers, Reading Speed and Techniques, Speaking and Listening | 0 |

For my Year 8s, they are creating a detective for a murder mystery at the end of the year. One of...

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Resilient learners – few thoughts.

by thequillguy | Mar 18, 2012 | For Teachers, PGCE advice, Speaking and Listening, The Psychology of Teaching | 0 |

During a recent ‘OFSTED’ session where an Inspector came in to deliver an mid-week...

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Animoto – Responding with slideshows

by thequillguy | Apr 11, 2009 | How to Teach Debate, Resource, Speaking, Speaking and Listening, Speaking in Class, Useful Apps | 0 |

“They’re strong VERBALLY.” How often have you heard that? Has it become an...

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