Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

When the new English GCSEs were introduced, the exam boards were selling their courses on the basis of KS3 materials. These KS3 materials...

I am in that phase of getting students to develop their essay writings skills in preparation for the mock exams. It is a fraught and ard...

The question that I often asking myself when marking is: ‘Why don’t they think for themselves?’ Thinking, or more precisely, original thou...

I have just returned from Southampton and the fabulous Teaching and Learning Takeover, or #TLT14, as we know it in the Twitter world. And,...