Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

Quotation learning is a poor proxy for literature revision. There, I’ve said it. The problem I have with it is that a quotation can only get...

Revision and revising is such a tricky thing for English. It can, if we are not too careful, be the equivalent of Buckaroo. Here’s another q...

  You have a test next Friday so your homework for this week is to revise for this test. You see systems and processes differently to teac...

It is that time of year again: exam season. This year I have a group of GCSE students and, so far, they are working between a C and an E. ...

It is a universal truth that a student wanting to succeed in exams will often lean towards one subject rather than another, because it i...