Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

In the time I have been teaching, I have seen the teaching of English compartmentalised in so many different ways. And, dear reader, you can...

Quotation learning is a poor proxy for literature revision. There, I’ve said it. The problem I have with it is that a quotation can only get...

Context is such a tricky aspect of English teaching. Too much emphasis on context causes students to offload spurious facts and details. Too...

The relationship people have with a text is a really fruitful one for English lessons, yet it is an area that students struggle to articulat...

Like others, I have been working on getting students to balance ideas, discussion on language choices and the writer’s message or intent. Fo...

At the moment, I am thinking, like most of us, on how we can use KS3 to empower students at KS4. On this area, I thought I’d share somet...

Teaching is a strange thing and it is hard to define what makes things stick in a student’s head when other ideas leave the brain as qui...