Proponents say relaxed uniforms make life easier for children and are much more practical for physical play.

Okehampton College's principal says not starting a new Year 12 "hasn't been an easy decision".

Apply metacognitive strategies in the classroom.

There are, in this world, many things which annoy me. Things that irk me. Things that get my goat, wind me up, rattle my cage and downright piss me off. Things like muttonheads in cars speedin…

On most, if not all, teacher training courses, there’s a chunk of the lesson plan form dedicated to the “rationale” behind the lesson, or even the stage of the lesson. Sometimes i…

In my last post, I reflected on the planning processes and the limitations that formal documentation can sometimes place on that process. Since then I’ve been mulling it over a bit more, and …

As a warm up to going back into work next week, I started to revisit some of the books I’d read for my PhD. Not the research methods ones, obviously, or the heavy duty theory & philosophy…

I’m writing amendments to my thesis at the moment, a process which swings from deeply frustrating to immensely enjoyable on an almost day to day basis. One of things I have noticed, as I refl…

There are many good reasons to quit flying – primarily, of course, the climate crisis. And the lack of legroom suggests airlines are actually trying to squeeze us out ...

We’re moving to Poland for a few years and I’m worried it will impact my four-year-old’s language skills

I’ve had the pleasure of revisiting the work of Mike Long, in particular the excellent Second Language Acquisition and Task Based Language Teaching. It’s been fascinating going back int…

A question I’ve been asked a lot while banging the drum for emergent language in an ESOL context is “what about beginners?” It’s a fair point – a lot of the research (…

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

Difficulty of cycling in suit and leather shoes is one reason casual footwear has gone corporate in the Netherlands