Learning Festival 2016
Tuesday 12th July had finally arrived. The Learning Festival. My first development day in my new job at a new college. We had made the
15 Jul 2016
Tuesday 12th July had finally arrived. The Learning Festival. My first development day in my new job at a new college. We had made the
“Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do
So Martyn Reah began the #teacher5aday hashtag on Twitter in order to tackle the urgent need for staff working within education to focus more on
‘The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,
On return to work tomorrow, I’ll be asking my learners to complete some short reflections on their Easter revision. We’ll discuss the other things they
Last term, my learners took it in turns to plan seminars and they became increasingly confident with this as they wrote challenging questions and imagined
I’ve been using silent debate in the classroom for a while now but I’m yet to use it with pens on tables- I’m just not
The below presentation (click here to view a Google Slides version and download) comes from a guest slot I gave to a CIPD group today on ‘reflective practice.’
Today was a reminder of quite how lucky I am to work as a teacher.
I remember my first year in teaching very well indeed; it was filled with mistakes brought about by fear. I was a very worried fish
This reflection has been dug-out of a dusty folder and was written in my first year of teaching and PGCE, 2009. At a time when
Writing on this site is often a necessary catharsis. I am compelled to openly reflect on my teaching practice. To those of you reading, apologies.
I have been meaning to write this post for some time now, but couldn’t work out exactly how. I’ve been lying awake and it’s no