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Protect yourself from criticism and motivate your students.
Just yesterday I received an email from the parent of one of my students telling me the marks he had received in year end tests. His email sounded disappointed and his comment about next year’s tuition seemed to imply I was to blame for his son’s performance, which incidentally had improved dramatically from when he started with me.
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Lego stage sets a priority? Creative learning gone mad.
Just after the Easter holidays one of my students told me that he hadn’t finished the play they were reading in class as they had been too busy building lego stage sets on the first act. Yep, I was rather mystified too. This was their second lesson, he explained, during which they had built as a group a lego representation of the detailed set in Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’. As a drama student, he had thoroughly enjoyed this task.
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Back & Forth, Back & Forth
Can you believe it? Another call for reform in the field of Education. Michael Gove is being called to comment on a leak from his office in which plans to revert to O Level type qualifications are being discussed.
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All Quiet on the Lessons Front
Pete's blog 10-7-12: Laura was away for three days last week, so I was dealing with all of the admin...
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Singapore goes from Tiger Teaching Methods to the Great Outdoors
BBC news reporter, Rebecca Lim writes that Singapore, the model of exceptional teaching that outperforms every European country (apart from Finland), is becoming aware of the value of ‘creative’ teaching methods.
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Reading Lists for Summer
While you might not want to overload your student for the summer break, it is good to send them off with the idea that a small amount of something will be beneficial to them.
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Increasing Confidence in Students
Some students come to you brimming over with confidence. They know they are going to get an A but want an A*, or they know they are good but are just struggling with a certain aspect of the syllabus. But then there are others, who can hardly say a word without blushing, whose eye contact is non existent. These students need help to regain confidence in themselves before we can possibly ask them to move on with their learning.
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‘Research doesn’t just mean look it up on Google’
The culture of clicking online for instant answers risks "infantilising" learning, says the head of a charity which runs independent girls schools. Helen Fraser will warn delegates of the Girls' Day School Trust about the risk of pupils relying on "nuggets of information" from the internet.
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Gove’s New GCSEs
Pete's blog 3-7-12: It was interesting last week to read about Michael Gove’s plans to revamp the year 11 qualifications in England...
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