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The intention of these workbooks is to replace the traditional blank notebook with the key learning already populated; learning objectives, key concept and vocabulary. This knowledge is important enough that it is accurate within their notes and divergence across the class only compounds divergence of attainment and progress. By having it hard-coded into the very…
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Reader-Response theory has now been developed into a lesson within the Literature curriculum. Like all critical theory, they are tough, but the aim of DoE is to make them accessible to everyone.
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Literacy skills precede the body of knowledge in Language and Literature – so what is the ‘structure’ to be learnt in Literacy, that aids comprehension, and taxonomically precedes structure in those other disciplines? Here’s how I do it.
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The technology of AI facilitated learning is not in the future, it’s in the present. Schools and teachers need to catch up with this, before the technology is ruled by third party and private interests.
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After years of following the core department curriculum of inferential reading, I’m moving towards the teaching of key vocabulary – a critical language that is far removed from ‘this implies / this suggests’.
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Whilst the posts page contains a new teacher framed article on understanding structuralism, there is also now a lesson too. This lesson is within the procedures of studying Literature and explores a few of the conventional rules that have been outlined by academics already. True structuralist study will not happen at Secondary education (which is…
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Welcome to Discipline of English, a repository for the accumulated knowledge of teaching English Language, English Literature and Media Studies. I have taught at GCSE to OCR, AQA, Pearson, Eduqas, as well as at A Level and even the new T Level. It all started in 2007, and I have worked with students in Wales,…
