THE REFLECTIVE TEACHER

My three-week honeymoon – also an opportunity to catch up on missed backpacking experiences – took place in Thailand, where my shiny new...

On 18th March, the government announced that all GCSE and A level exams would be cancelled for 2020. In the frenzied days afterwards we...

Every time I've taught structure under the new spec (with AQA), I've had a sneaking suspicion that I'm teaching far, far too much and...

We've all heard the transition day assessment horror stories - a sprightly bunch of 11 year old students head up to their local Secondary...

As society and employment evolve at breakneck pace, educational revolution must follow, writes Will Cowell Most of us have seen the...

I remember my first experience in an FE college well. It involved presiding over enrolment season in late August/ early September with...

As an English teacher and leader in FE, I spend my time working with GCSE English and maths students who have achieved less than a grade...

Exams have been and gone, students have departed, and an air of calm has descended. Mercifully, we now have time to properly reflect on...

Thursday afternoon. We are at the end of a lesson; it has been a good one. I’ve shared a poem, explored meaning, modelled analysis. They...

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out” – Robert Collier Your lesson begins. You present your students with a...

Over the last few years, a range of books have been released espousing ideas to support teachers in being more effective in the...

'Marking has evolved into an unhelpful burden for teachers, when the time it takes is not repaid in positive impact on pupils’ progress'...