Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

Teaching students to write with effect is quite a tricky thing. Over the years, I have seen writing reduced to tick lists. The problem is th...

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...

Over the past term, I have been working on quite a bit of creative writing with students. And, I always find with each year that there’s som...

I detest purple prose. Nothing grates when you’ve read your fifteenth example of personification by the third sentence. Especially when the ...

Drafting is a very tricky aspect of teaching. Rarely do students draft effectively. They are usually in one of two camps. ‘The tickle brigad...