Making Connections in Macbeth | KS4 Teaching Resource
Click here to access a one-pager on making connections in Macbeth. I originally put it together as part of a
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Teaching and Learning
One-Page Teaching and Learning Overviews
Download now>> One-Page Teaching and Learning Overviews About a year or so ago, I put together various one-page overviews on
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Simple GCSE English Language Booklets and Target Sheets | KS4 Teaching Resource
The resources that follow are for the AQA English Language specification, but the documents are all editable if you need
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Snapshot Revision Notes on the AQA Power and Conflict Poems | KS4 Teaching Resource
Click here to access a Word document with the revision notes on the AQA Power and Conflict Poems and here
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100 Years of Dystopian Fiction: 1920 – 2020 | KS3 Teaching Resource
Download now >> 100 Years of Dystopian Fiction Click here to access an anthology of dystopian fiction extracts. I originally
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How I Started My Lessons Today (Thursday 6th May)
As students enter my classroom, I typically have a ‘holding slide’ displayed on the board. Usually, the slide is in
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Making Quizzes (More) Worthwhile
Good quizzes take a long time to construct, but students sometimes (often?) complete them very quickly and without much serious
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Vocabulary Booklet: Commonly Confused and Similar Words
Vocabulary Booklet: Commonly Confused and Similar Words – PDF Vocabulary Booklet: Commonly Confused and Similar Words – Word Doc Click
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Do you know good teaching when you see it?
Take two groups of teachers… Group One: teachers whose pupils have made high progress for three years in a row
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Will I be judged more favourably if I teach a top set?
In short, the answer appears to be yes. In the paper above, Steinberg and Garrett cite studies which suggest that
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