Author Archives: ijstock

Originally posted on teaching personally:
I never expected a significant period towards the end of my career to be spent in ‘A’ Level Maths and Physics lessons – but that is the way it is currently panning out. My two…

Originally posted on teaching personally:
“I’ll see you next week!” said the lady I didn’t yet know was Mrs King as she strode past the gutter where the grubby-fingered five-year-old me was playing with my friends. I was mystified. But…

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Right-on educationalists never miss a trick when it comes to advancing new initiatives for redesigning the educational world. Recent evidence suggests that someone somewhere is driving a post-Covid agenda for “building [education] back better”. Which…

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…is the sound of me finding something that speaks back to me thoughts I have been having for a rather long time. It is always comforting to have one’s confirmation bias massaged of course, though…

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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,…

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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…

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This is my lockdown project: OK I admit it, I am a railway modeller. I have been one for around fifty years, well before that hobby’s supposed new-found Lockdown Cool. It’s a profound and wide-ranging…

Originally posted on teaching personally:
There is nothing I like more than settling down to an activity knowing that there are no constraints on the time I have available to spend on it, and I can in effect continue until…

Originally posted on teaching personally:
During my degree course in the early 1980s, there was one module that struck fear into most geography undergraduates. It had the added sting of being compulsory – and it appeared on the timetable with…

Originally posted on teaching personally:
A couple of years ago, I was invited to meet the leaders of the Education faculty of a British university, with a view to teaching part-time on their PGCE course. This came as something of…