Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

Today, I am writing a eulogy for someone very close to me. Like most people, I’ve put things off. For example,  I’ve been tempted to search ...

Annotating things in English is the equivalent of breathing. We do it all the time and it is almost second nature to what we do when teachin...

 I enjoy teaching poetry but I do find the idea of an anthology of fifteen poems for GCSE such an overwhelming prospect for students. I have...

 We are currently working with our Year 11s to help them prepare for an assessment on unseen poetry and for me it has, yet again, made me th...

  When did written assessments become the sole way to mark a student’s understanding of a text, idea or concept? The sad thing is th...