Monthly Archives: January 2021

My new book, Making Meaning in English – the final fruits of the burst of productivity I enjoyed during the first phase of lock down – will be available for your delight and edification on 10th… Continued here https://ift.tt/2L3pvC4

Originally posted on teaching personally:
Life?can only be?understood backwards;?but?it?must?be?lived forwards. ?Søren Kierkegaard An ongoing (light-hearted) bone of inter-generational contention in this family is, “You’ll be the same when you’re my age…”. I am not that deterministic in my own outlook,…

What was the relationship between attainment and length of time spent disadvantaged, pre-pandemic? Continued here: https://ift.tt/3ohtdpj

My nine-year old boy, Noah, has been working hard on his handwriting this week.  He fizzes with ideas when he writes, but most often his handwriting and his spelling simply cannot keep … The… Continued here: https://ift.tt/2KK9roO

Exploring the relationship between teacher absence and pupil absence figures, and more Continued here: https://ift.tt/2KBelEn

As in every sphere, there are certain phrases or topics that acts a dog whistle in education. When people use terms like ‘progressive,’ ‘knowledge-rich,’ ‘no excuses,’ ‘deep dive,’ or ‘fronted… Continued here https://ift.tt/3o4YPyn

As a writer I know that I must select studiously the nouns, pronouns, verbs, absorbs, etcetera, and by a careful syntactical arrangement make readers laugh, reflect or riot. Maya Angelou,… Continued here https://ift.tt/3p0vI0l

Do you know your fronted adverbials from your prepositional phrases? As another week of home schooling commences, many parents, and teachers, are faced with tricky questions about grammar. It… Continued here: https://ift.tt/2LBlCVv

When I started teaching nearly two decades ago, I was a teacher of reading, writing, vocabulary, academic talk, and more. The problem was that I could do reading and writing, but I … The post Five… Continued here: https://ift.tt/3im7eMK

Originally posted on teaching personally:
A recent post by another teacher on social media expressed the hope that children supposedly being “deprived” of their education by lockdown will use the opportunity to learn about wider life experiences, and the growth…