At the end of the school day, you’re faced with a daunting pile of English books—each needing thorough marking: spellings corrected, numbers in margins, feedback on improvements, and a comment on what...

Writing problems, and solutions, can too often go undetected in schools. Unlike reading, there are relatively few specific writing assessments to detect issues that schools can use, so it is hard to f...

Dr Leah Veronese uncovers the version of Sonnet 116 tucked away in a poetry collection in Oxford.

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Announcing changes to increase exam paper and mark scheme clarity for GCSE English Language.

Centralising educational resources enhances teaching effectiveness by providing a consistent repository of materials. This approach fosters collaboration, allows for flexibility, and ensures all st…

The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched h...

I remember a time, not so very long ago, when it would have been highly unusual in most English schools for a lesson observer to pay much attention at all to the content being taught. It was very r…

England has long adopted the version of events informed by the Victorians’ biases and neuroses. But what is behind the flood of 21st-century retellings, including the new TV series The Mirror and the ...

Hayden is kicking off again. With a clockwork regularity he’s decided he’s not going to do his work and instead is shouting across the room to a boy he likes to shout at when he doesn&#…

Carmy is a brilliant young chef. Trained in the world’s finest kitchens, he is putting the final touches to a new dish, which he presents to his head chef. The dish is elegant and refined, wi…

In two training sessions I’ve led this week, (ironically both using PowerPoint), I’ve momentarily had somewhat of an unscheduled rant about PowerPoint. I began teaching in 1998 when the…

Teaching is brilliantly complex, endlessly challenging, and potentially the most rewarding of the professions. No two lessons are the same. No two classes are the same. This diversity and complexity d...

When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one — until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that he’d found...

Over the past few years, we have been working on how we can use booklets effectively. With Literature texts, there is so much you can do. Th...

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1. Motivation doesn't always lead to achievement, but achievement often leads to motivation. While there is a strong correlation between self perception and achievement and we tend to think of it in t...

ALT: the man is wearing glasses and a bow tie and is giving a thumbs up .

Following a few discussions on using booklets on Twitter recently, I thought I would pull together some resources on it. I suspect there is little research on the use of these types of booklets in sch...

According to our school's mythology, some terrible changes were enacted in the 1990s by a new, progressive headteacher looking to make his mark. One of these changes was to modernise the names of the ...