Last week journalist Rebecca Reid caused a small edutwitter storm by claiming that Shakespeare should be scrapped from the curriculum "because it's boring and we have hundreds of other more relevant writers to study". Like most of the other 700 English teacher commenters, this seemingly flippant dismissal annoyed me. I love Shakespeare and I love…
"The simplest prescription for improving education must be dollops of feedback." John Hattie The longer I've been teaching, the more I've come to appreciate the value of marking. By 'marking' though, I mean looking at students' work and giving feedback which they are required to act upon immediately. What we learn about progress from students'…
Over the last decade I've spent hours reading teaching blogs, sharing and discussing with others, but (except for a few tentative posts early in my career) have been terrified of starting my own. This year I moved from a large comprehensive school in the North East of the UK, to a much smaller, but just…
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