Olympic Learning
The fabulous success of the London 2012 Olympics is a game changer for British national identity,our sense of pride,purpose and potential.Commentators in education,as in other spheres of...
View ArticleFirst Steps…
’twas the night after the first day of term and not a lesson plan was stirring the stationary mouse… First lessons are agenda setting, nerve settling moments in our year.In them we set the tone and...
View ArticleStrawberry Fields Forever
With the 50th anniversary of the release of ‘Love Me Do’ tomorrow the Beatles are back in the news. Although quite how aware our pupils are about an iconic band, whose presence in many of our lives was...
View ArticleA Life in the Day of an English Teacher…
This Friday seemed to sum up for me so much that is both fulfilling and frustrating about our professional lives this Autumn.The mix of Thursday’s Open Evening and an AS Lit lesson first thing was...
View ArticleDa Do Ron Ron
Ron Berger’s An Ethic of Excellence should be required reading on every Teacher Training course in the country;it synthesises the craft of teaching and inspires it in equal measure.A year after reading...
View ArticleThe Universal Panacea? The number one shift in UK education I wish to see in...
I was lucky enough today to watch Jim Smith inspire,amuse and challenge with his ‘lazy’ teacher approach at Copleston High school. I was sitting next @nwatkin and discussing our shared passion for...
View ArticleMarginal gains and class presentations…
This is an effective way to increase the learning power surrounding presentations.Presentations are and always have been a vehicle for student voice. Ron Berger’s learning critiques inherently...
View ArticleBuilding a Culture of Craftmanship with Students – Exploring the ideas of Ron...
An Ethic of Excellence in the Classroom Here is a PowerPoint exploring Ron Berger’s ideas that I have presented at conferences this year and shared in other posts. I hope its helpful and ecouages...
View ArticleMyself as a Reader
Reading is a love affair. Tempestous, disappointing, exhilarating, rewarding or destabilising, it rarely fails to enagage our passions as individuals.It changes the way we see the world;allowing us to...
View ArticleMyself as a Writer
If reading is a love affair;writing is a marriage. You have to commit to it and as a wise chiropracter once said to me ‘ It’s true freedom’. Don’t ask! However, I know what she means now.The real joy...
View ArticleSmart is not something you are,it is something you become.
Teaching and Learning Takeover TLT13 What was the first piece of work you remember feeling proud of? When did you write it? Who did you write it for? What impact did it have on you as learner? These...
View ArticleA Matter of Style ….
Feedback Tips for Presentations – Be Kind, Be Specific and be helpful. When pupils are presenting finished work as a drama, a role play, or their research as a presentation, how can we further enhance...
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