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Reading for School
To Whom Do the Words Belong? Examining the opening of Chapter 9 of Treasure Island through principles of free indirect discourse.
Prerogative or perjorative? Examining the opening of Chapter 9 of Treasure Island through principles of free indirect discourse.
Writing Composition in the British NC: can we learn something from this American focus?
The examinations in the British NC focus heavily on word and sentence level analysis. Analysing the connotations of individual word choices, for example, is a dominant focus on most of the current English language exam, and not to mention being useful (perhaps even...
How to improve your literary analysis KS3-KS5
This selection of types of analysis was originally termed Top Ten out of Ten? Try Terrence T Templeton of Tadcastle Technlogical's Ten Tangible Techniques. It is a range of generic strategies for literary analysis from KS3-KS5 that I have developed over the past five...
Teaching Comparative Contextual Analysis in Literature: Spark Presentation January 2017
This is a short presentation I delivered at a Spark event (TeachMeet) organised by the wonderful Rachael Edgar. Essentially it proposes the teaching of context and comparative audience response at the same time. Inspired from the practice of Peter Flynn.
How is Sheila Birling presented?
Sheila Birling can be seen by the 2017 audience as a millennial: put-upon, subordinate, but ultimately defiant. Initially presented as a demure if childish character, she grows in voice and confidence throughout the play until she challenges the Birlings, and what...
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Assessment For Learning – Warnock or Guardiola.
Part of my summer reading has been a review of Dylan Wiliam’s ‘Embedding Assessment for Learning’ (AfL). Despite AfL’s popularity over the past 20 years, Wiliams and Black criticise how errant data managers misadministrate it. Reading this book would help such...
Thoughts about Deans for Impact – First Book from BSM
To start my new school I have read a dozen books on pedagogy. Here are some thoughts on the first. Deans for Impact attempts to use evidenced-based teaching into the classroom for pragmatic and profound impact. Evidenced-based teaching seems to be a no-brainer - do...
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Thoughts about Duffy from Rees-Jones’ Book ‘Writers and Their Work’
Yesterday I read about 50 pages of Rees-Jones' book of Duffy's work. Despite Duffy's A-Level presence, she lacks background material. This book is fairly dense. These thoughts are those that remain: Surrealism - Duffy employs surrealism to explore ideas that do not...
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 14-year-old self. It captures the earnest position of the profound thinker in British culture. Read more of Shreya Manna's wonderful writing at https://paradiseprose.com/ MISS MANNA: [forced...
Improving Inference as an English Teacher
Teaching students how to read is not really the remit of the secondary classroom teacher. It is a tremendously difficult task that ideally requires several MA-level qualifications and one-to-one time with students. It is a SENCO-level role that is very rarely funded...
Using Total War as an ECA: Decisive Battles in History and Exploring Literary Context
Exciting students in history opens them to wider cultural trends. In Beijing I ran, with the able and smart Welshman Aidan Jones, a Time Commanders ECA using the Total War series. Click here to visit the Time Commanders Website for an Example of this ECA
Being a Lifelong Learner – Thoughts about Teaching After 15 Years (and why most teachers don’t improve after 3-5 years)
An Easter of reading raises some old truisms: That most teachers do not 'improve' after 3-5 years. That most ineffective teachers 'catch up' to expert teachers after 10 years or so. That these statements are made in terms of impact on external performance measures....
Podcast Libraries – Educating Yourself beyond a Curriculum
Teaching students for fifteen years has allowed me to recognise some of the deficiencies of my early education. One choice every teenager needs to make in school is whether to follow a vocational or academic route. It is an impossible choice. I would define the...