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Leading literacy in schools
Apr 25, 2018 |
Category: literacy
Leading on literacy can be a thoroughly thankless task. It can often feel like you’re working incredibly hard to produce resources and strategies which colleagues at best ignore and at worst resent. P...
Leading literacy in schools
Oct 17, 2017 |
Category: Featured
Leading on literacy can be a thoroughly thankless task. It can often feel like you're working incredibly hard to produce resources and strategies which colleagues at best ignore and at worst resent. T...
What to do about literacy
Apr 15, 2015 |
Category: literacy
Over the last couple of years I've visited over 100 schools and practically none of them have got literacy right. Now obviously I only get asked to talk to schools who feel they can improve - maybe th...
Teacher talk: the missing link
May 18, 2013 |
Category: English
Back in 2008 I was told by an Ofsted inspector that I talked too much. I had always prided myself on being considered an outstanding teacher, and was devastated to be told my lesson was "satisfactory...
The GCSE English "fiasco" - Why shouldn't all have prizes?
Sep 02, 2012 |
Category: English
Lots of folk have had lots to say about what went on behind the scenes at the various exam boards this summer and throughout it all I've largely kept my peace. Having absorbed the various arguments an...
The Matthew Effect - why literacy is so important
Sep 30, 2012 |
Category: learning
Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.Matthew 13:12
In the world of the 2012 Ofsted framework very few sch...
The joy of marking
Oct 27, 2011 |
Category: assessment
I'm a big fan of marking students' work. I love it so much I let a big pile of it build up to do over the holidays. As an English teacher I'm faced with a lot of marking and most of it needs to be rea...
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