Technology for Teaching: a personal history
From the Banda to the blackboard to the overhead projector. As a gadget and technology fan, I’ve seen a few generations of technology in the classroom.
Read MoreThinking about 'King Lear'
Here are some exercises on quotations in King Lear. They are designed for pair-work 10-minute sessions in class, but work perfectly well for individuals.
Read MoreTeaching in the Online Classroom
Teaching in the Online Classroom: surviving and thriving in the new normal by Doug Lemov and the Teach Like a Champion Team offers lots of guidance and reassurance for teachers right now in the ‘remote space’.
Read MoreBooks of the Year, 2020
An annual personal choice of books of the year.
Read MoreDiversity in Schools
Bennie Kara’s new book Diversity in Schools: a little guide for teachers is small in format, big in ambition. It is just what schools and individual teachers need right now to navigate these issues.
Read MoreINOTE, November 28th 2020
Here are the slides from my two presentations at the (virtual) conference of the Irish National Teachers of English on November 28th.
Read MoreINOTE 2020
Details of the first virtual conference for teachers of English in Ireland, on November 28th.
Read MoreMotivated Teaching
Peps Mccrea's book Memorable Teaching in his High Impact Teaching series was excellent, and so is his latest, Motivated Teaching. These are books which are both modest and ambitious: the former because they are short, tight, controlled, and the latter because they also deal with big ideas about learning, absorbing, compressing and then expressing them very clearly.
Read MoreRunning the Room
Tom Bennett’s new book Running the Room: the teacher’s guide to behaviour is a rich source of advice on the most fundamental thing for all learning. If behaviour is poor in a classroom, all pupils’ learning suffers.
Read MoreTeaching Walkthrus
Teaching Walkthrus is a stimulating resource: practical ideas are laid down with great precision. It will help a lot of teachers to clarify their practice.
Read MoreClosing the Reading Gap
Closing the Reading Gap is a sibling to Alex Quigley’s previous book, Closing the Vocabulary Gap, and joins it in being one of the most accessible, interesting and helpful books on education in recent years.
Read MoreTeachers vs Tech?
it is particularly welcome that at this time one of the sharpest minds in education, Daisy Christodoulou, should turn her attention to the relationship between teaching and technology. Here are some thoughts on her third book, Teachers vs Tech? the case for an ed tech revolution.
Read MoreresearchED Dublin 2020
Several researchED events around the world have sadly now fallen by the wayside (or at least have been postponed). We are still 6 months away from the second rED Dublin. Who knows what the situation will be in what right now seems an aeon away. In any case, we are going to go ahead and release tickets as planned on Tuesday 24th March at 7.30pm.
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