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An English teacher trying to get better. Looking to discuss and share teaching and learning ideas. Summary Resources of AQA GCSE Specification from 2015. AQA GCSE Overview PPT. AQA GCSE Overview PDF. An anthology I put together for KS3 WW1 poetry. Hopefully, there’s a wide range of poets and perspectives to explore. My attempts at a ‘Knowledge Organiser’ for the iGCSE Exam, syllabus 0522. Knowledge Organiser (iGCSE Language) (Extended). Knowledge Organiser (iGCSE Language) CORE. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Beautiful language, beautiful analysis? | mrbunkeredu
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An English teacher trying to get better. Looking to discuss and share teaching and learning ideas. Beautiful language, beautiful analysis? February 1, 2015. If students are given more beautiful language to explore, would their analysis itself be more beautiful? They’re exam proficient and their performance on some of the questions seems to have plateaued. How can I challenge them further? We started with this short passage, from F Scott Fitzgerald’s. The Great Gatsby,. Is anything truly eternal? I’...
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: A letter to an English teacher on results day
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog. Wednesday, 13 August 2014. A letter to an English teacher on results day. One of my most popular posts on the blog has been my letter to an NOT. It is here, if you haven't read it yet. Given the current state of play with the English exams, I felt it necessary to blog about it as we await the forthcoming results. Dear English teacher,. 1] The GCSEs and A-levels represent the teaching over the years and not just the last two years. Or has the teaching ...
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: The Spelling Problem: finding a voice for people
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog. Saturday, 14 December 2013. The Spelling Problem: finding a voice for people. For me, spelling is the thing that most people pick up on in a person’s writing. That and handwriting. Often during a parents’ evening, parents hone in on their child’s inability to spell or their handwriting. I am left agreeing with them. In attempt to appease Ofsted, I bet most schools have upped the amount of spelling tests students sit. We now have another set of rules i...
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: May 2015
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog. Friday, 29 May 2015. Big system, little system – put them in a cardboard box. In a rare moment of escapism, I visited a city this week. On the journey there, I purchased a coffee from a vendor at a train station. It was one of those open shops where you stand and collect the hot beverage at the end of a line. I like excitement and variety, so I bought a white Americano. 8220;What is your name? 8221; asked the lady behind the counter. 8220;Sorry, sir?
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: July 2015
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog. Friday, 31 July 2015. Star of the Week – the black hole of praise. 8217; A simple device to motivate and reward behaviour has become the bane of my life. There is a deeper problem under all of this. I am not a pushy parent that feels that his child is not getting the rewards he/she deserves – okay, maybe a bit. This following exchange might help to highlight what, I feel, is the problem:. Me: Who got the award this week? Me: What did he get it for?
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Explicit Grammar: Teaching Relative Clauses | mrbunkeredu
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An English teacher trying to get better. Looking to discuss and share teaching and learning ideas. Explicit Grammar: Teaching Relative Clauses. April 17, 2015. This week’s experimentation involved the explicit teaching of relative clauses. It’s pretty easy to spot relative clauses, as they are typically introduced by a select few words:. The relative pronouns ( who, whose, which, that ). The relative adverbs (where, when why). For example: On Tuesdays I eat apple pie,. Which is my favourite dessert.
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8221; A Feminised Environment”. August 18, 2015. August 18, 2015. In my A-level group, both male and female students adopted a sustained ethic of hard work for their coursework. I spent hours of lessons and lunchtimes meeting with both genders answering their questions and guiding their thinking. More public with their hard work, but to claim that boys leave it until the exam* and that schools are ‘feminised’ is a very superficial view of our classrooms. Cramming just before the exam. Blog - Chalk House.
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Dwelling on the Positive | mrbunkeredu
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An English teacher trying to get better. Looking to discuss and share teaching and learning ideas. Dwelling on the Positive. December 22, 2014. Whatever the reason, the situation this weekend was clear:. There I was. Sat in a pub. In another town. Moaning about teaching. It’s not so much the letter itself, but the energy and enthusiasm the class displayed when engaging in this correspondence which I remember fondly. What have your highlights been this year? December 22, 2014. Are ‘outstanding’...
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Of Mice and Men and Pandas?
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Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog. Saturday, 22 September 2012. Of Mice and Men and Pandas? Breakfast in my house today:. 8220;Dad, that cloud looks like a spaceship! 8221; said one twin, munching her way through a slice of toast. 8221; I said bemused. 8220;Outside. In the sky. That cloud looks like a spaceship.”. 8220;Are you sure? Looks like a face to me.”. 8220;Look, there’s the wing and that’s the top of it,” smiled a marmite covered child. 8220;Oh yeah. I see it now.”. The Interne...