The Psychology of Teaching
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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 summary of the training below. It aims to frame screencasting exemplars as a useful stimulus to stimulating metacognition practice. Following my study on metacognition,...
The Psychology of Teaching
The Psychology of Teaching
Resilient learners – few thoughts.
During a recent 'OFSTED' session where an Inspector came in to deliver an mid-week twilight training session, it was said that one judgement is of the 'resiliency' of our students. That is, whether they give up when presented with difficulties. I am rated highly. The...
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 open about how they require prompting; none of them, though, do not want to achieve. We have started with our Shakespeare requirement. Balancing the English vs English...
Motivation
Recently two new students have come to me requiring tutoring for their Shakespeare essays. As they are new to the school, I recommended the video I play to all my classes at the start of the year. I should add a little more on this later in the year. But, for now,...
Why work for your exams?
That familiar question: why work for your exams? For the qualification? For the job? For the money? For what? For happiness? An interesting video:
Writing 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, "hello!" They are writing freely, one lad at the...
In 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 that I have perhaps supported students...
To blog or not to blog?
Our school perhaps doesn't have the perfect culture for writing. However, our school does have an exceptional reading culture. Unlike other places I've worked (some rated as having outstanding English departments), every student has a reading book with them at all...
Training English Teachers – ICT
Nick McGuinn, my ex-PGCE tutor at York University and all-round great man, invited me recently to deliver IWB training to the English trainee teacher cohort. In doing so, it led me to reflect on two questions: 1) What sort of ICT pedagogy is most useful to a trainee...
