Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

This month, I found a grey, well technically white, patch in my beard. With that one discovery, I have convinced myself that I am now offici...

When you place the GCSE papers next to each other, you cannot help but notice that students have to write pages and pages of answers for t...

There is one thing about teaching that never changes. Teachers care. In fact, they care a lot. They care so much they listen to a lot of c...

There’s one thing we don’t speak enough about in the world of education. Failure. Mistakes. Errors of judgement made by adults.   The...

When I was a child, I had a bike and because I lived in a dubious part of town I had one of those combination locks. A green plastic coa...