‘Human Progress is neither automatic or inevitable’

A Martin Luther King quotation and the ramblings and rants of an NQT: You’ve been warned. Technically I’ve now been a grown up for three weeks. This is good; in two ways. One I haven’t had to be a grown up for the past 6 years and two because I promised myself I’d buy an …

Happy New Year

I'm about to embark upon the creatively entitled NQT year. I don't really know a lot about this teaching game as yet. All I can say is what I think helps and has helped thus far. I know I have a lot to learn! This summer has given me the chance to reflect on last …

Today I got this…

A Summary of Shakespeare and Six Sided Shapes…

In my last post I explained my CSI lesson with year 9 - where they explored, retrieved and explained their choices of Shakespeare's language from Macbeth to answer a specific question. At the end of that lesson I asked them to write down their best and most relevant quotations onto three hexagons. They were confused. …

Classroom as a Crime Scene

I recently had my final observation for my GTP course from the external observer at my University. I spent many a day during half term (minus those the Queen gave us off), sorting out folders upon folders of paperwork ready for the day when my long suffering university tutor would have to read through them. …

I’m not stupid but…

My best friend bought me a card a few years ago that I have kept ever since. It is clipped onto my little noticeboard underneath all the letters and photos that get added to it, but I never forget it's there and pretty much every day end up saying the quote on the front to …

This is impossible…

This post is probably slightly premature because I haven't yet officially completed the GTP Year and until they (don't know who they actually are) send a badge, card or pigeon carrier with QTS written on a gold post-it note then I won't consider myself an actual grown up. However, I am nearer that point than …

First attempts at using SOLO…

On first impressions I don't think I come across as a massive geek. I have no doubt that the majority of my non-teacher friends think I get to work at 9am (not that far from the truth as I am rubbish at waking up) and leave at 3.30pm (very far from the truth as I'm …

Learning Objectives

The main issue I have today is that my laptop keyboard doesn't have a key for the letter 'b' so I shall bbbbblame all spelling mistakes on that. In the mean time there mayBe quite a few odd bs floating around in this post! Learning objectives are something that have become so much part of my …