Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

For years, I have struggled with ‘group work’ in lessons. And, I’d admit that that was born out of a sense of control and desire to manage t...

This week I was lucky to see a production of Macbeth with students from my school. It just so happened to coincide with many other schools ...

Silence might be  golden, but talk is magical.  It is interesting that the latest focus is on oracy when the past decade has been obsessed a...

O ne of the problems around plays and teaching them is that students struggle to analyse them. Give them a piece of prose and they can analy...

Homework is one of those tricky things in school. The only people that seem to like it are pushy parents, who think every child should be do...