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Back to School Part 4: Planning

Aug 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #John Tomsett #Lee Donaghy #planning #back to school

What I've learned about functional grammar

Mar 06, 2014 | Category: literacy

Yesterday I had the good fortune to listen to Professor Mary Schleppegrell from the University of Michigan talk about how functional grammar is having an impact on EFL students in US schools. Ever sin...

#Lee Donaghy #Michael Halliday #functional grammar #John Polias #Mary Schleppegrell #systemic functional linguistics

What is (or isn't) language doing in PGCE?

Oct 28, 2013 | Category: literacy

After yesterday's post on the subject of how to improve the PGCE, Lee Donaghy tweeted me to point out that I had neglected to mention the importance of trainee teachers learning knowledge about langua...

#Lee Donaghy #Michael Halliday #PGCE

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 3: Scaffold

Jul 02, 2013 | Category: Featured

So, you've explained the new concepts and ideas students will need to know, deconstructed examples so that they know how to use these concepts in practice and you've modelled the process of how an exp...

#Lee Donaghy #scaffolding #academic register #PEE #reciprocal teaching #Vygotsky #zone of proximal development

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 2: Model

Jun 30, 2013 | Category: English

Over the past few years I've thought a lot about how and what we should teach. My journey has been long and painful. I used to evangelically promote the teaching of transferable '21st century skills'...

#Lee Donaghy #modelling #Bryan Reade #deconstruction #Marcus Sedgwick #nominalisation #Simon Scarrow

Independence vs independent learning

Jun 20, 2013 | Category: literacy

Last weekend #SLTchat was on fostering students' independence. As you'd expect, there were lots of great suggestions shared, as well as some not so great ideas. One comment I tweeted in response to th...

#Ofsted #Lee Donaghy #Daisy Christodoulou #independent learning #teacher talk #Tom Sherrington

Mind your language - a language based approach to pedagogy

Mar 29, 2013 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_3198" align="alignleft" width="250"] The most astonishing example of hyperbole ever![/caption]As the chap heading up Literacy at my school, I've been doing a lot of reading and...

#Genre Pedagogy #Jim Martin #Lee Donaghy #Michael Halliday #Park View School #Pauline Gibbons