What can a middle aged English teacher possibly find to write about? October 22, 2016. In the summer of last year I came across a paper and some articles by Daniel Willingham in the Washington Post which brought to mind a nasty flashback. Then we worked our way through a lesson on close reading. I was teaching close reading.

Thoughts and ideas about words, stories and what works best in the classroom and beyond. A guide to dystopian fiction. It would be wise to start with a definition of. The Faber Book of Utopias.

A magazine of practice, research and activism. This post is by Diane Leedham, NALDIC stalwart and EAL commentator, and is from the excellent Teacher Toolkit blog. She discusses the ongoing issues around the DfE requesting nationality data from parents and gives advice for colleagues on the front line.

A simple guide for all here based on my reading of the brilliant book below. The book looks at a range of fascinating anecdotes involving everyone from neurosurgeons to fighter pilots, oh and students too! It explains how people learn most effectively, and the myths of techniques that have been proved not to work.

Education, leadership, literacy and staying warm. This is a picture of the gym at my school, right at the end of a mock examination. I took this picture to help my Y11 students with learning quotations. I did this same exercise last year and it worked. I have produced a very minimal version of this for this blog. My students managed many, many more tha.