NEW POST: Strand Vs Spiral Planning tomneedhamteach.wordpress.com/2023/07/11/cre…

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Six KS3 booklets: 1⃣ A Monster Calls 2⃣ Great Speeches 3⃣ The Bone Sparrow 4⃣ Dystopian Fiction 5⃣ Dickens 6⃣ Beowulf #TeamEnglish

266 years ago today one of the strangest artists in history was born: William Blake. He was a poet, a prophet, a painter, a Romantic, an environmentalist, an abolitionist, and a mystic. The word "unique" is overused, but William Blake truly was unlike any other...

🚨 CHRISTMAS BOOKS GIVEAWAY 🚨 Fancy some edu-reading for Xmas? It is advent time, so I’ve decided to give away full ‘Closing the Gap’ collections (all 3 books) to ***2*** prize winners. Simply RETWEET this post to enter. [I’ll be drawing the two winners on 8th December]

New. Why Adam Boxer has annoyed me. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2024/01/23/sto…

My Tes magazine article on adaptive teaching is still proving popular. My recent conversations with school leaders have indicated a shift away from some of the problematic approaches to differentiation. ‘Differentiation is dead, long live adaptive teaching’ tes.com/magazine/teach…

*** NEW POST *** 'Supporting Exam Preparation: The Final Mile' As national exams approach there is a key question: “how do we get pupils to take over responsibility for their learning in the final mile?” This blog shares 6 practical strategies. theconfidentteacher.com/2024/03/suppor…

Lesson feedback: don't send it, don't give it - co-construct it. Otherwise, it won't be worth it. teacherhead.com/2024/01/28/les…

The Pros of Live Marking Here are my pros and cons of the method which will take me through to the far-away land of mid-July… buff.ly/4bvApqW

*** ‘Write less; read more *** “Reading more, longer texts could be the solution to improving reading. So, the answer to improve writing must be writing more and writing longer texts too, right? I suggest not.” alexquigley.co.uk/write-less-rea…

READING: The radical change we need in secondary schools, and how we are plotting our course @AcademyCAT1 A (long) thread 🧵 👇

🚨 NEW BLOG 🚨 ‘Disciplinary talk’ “Disciplinary talk is a recognition that mathematicians, scientists, and geographers, communicate in subtly different ways, and that talk routines can be well matched to curriculum content in those different areas.” alexquigley.co.uk/disciplinary-t…

12 days of diverse books to giveaway! 🎉🎉🎉 Day 7: WIN a copy of I'm Going to be a Princess, Grandad's Pride, One Little World, Shine and Gina Kaminski Saves the World. To enter FOLLOW US, RT, LIKE and COMMENT #PublishDiverseBooks Closes at 6pm. UK & Ireland only. #Giveaway

***CODIFYING FEEDBACK*** Thread 🧵 What are we Longdendale High School doing to codify feedback and create opportunities for students to feedforward? All too often feedback doesn’t create opportunities for students to feedforward and allow application to different contexts from

Beware of the avant-guard dog (from Speedbump.com)

I'm going to be teaching A Level English Language for the first time in September. Does anybody have any CPD recommendations? Websites, courses, videos, workbooks etc. that would help with my subject knowledge. I really appreciate it! Team English