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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Teaching and Learning
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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Five Half-Term Education Podcasts
See below for links to five podcasts that I’ve recently listed to and thought you might enjoy over half-term or
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Brief Notes for Lesson Observation Feedback Conversations
Some brief notes below for those providing feedback after lesson observations… Remember that no two classes are the same Make
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GCSE English Language Paper 1 Study Pack
Click here to access a short booklet that’s based around an exam paper mock-up that I put together on Lullaby,
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Wider Reading for Learning Walkers and Lesson Observers (etc.)
It’s a truth well known, although occasionally forgotten, that evaluating teaching and learning is complex. With that in mind, please
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AQA GCSE English Language Exam Report Summaries (June 2019)
I’ve taken the main headlines from each exam report and put them into a couple of documents. The headlines need
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