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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Teaching and Learning
Teaching GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry
In years gone by, I’ve tended to treat the unseen poetry component of the GCSE English Literature course as a
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Top 5 Teaching Resources for AQA Power and Conflict Poetry
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve put out my ‘top five’ resources for Macbeth and Jekyll and Hyde. Here
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Retrieval Practice and An Inspector Calls Resources
A familiar scenario: I ask students to reread passages from a text and they duly appear to do so. Heads
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