Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

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...

In terms of metacognition, cognitive load and cognitive load theory is one of the biggest concerns of any English teacher. We might not dres...

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

Plays, I think, are quite tricky things at GCSE. The plays available for the exam specs  are either chockablock with interesting language ch...

For years, I have really struggled with the exploring and teaching of the genre of ‘An Inspector Calls’. It’s not that I think it is wit...