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Applying for your first teaching post: advice from an ex-recruiter
In my pre-teaching life, I worked as a recruitment consultant in the retail sector and spent some time recruiting managers and shop-floor staff for a multi-national retailer. As well as turning my hand...
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Dumbing Down English Literature?
There’s a report in today’s Telegraph saying that the English Literature A Level has been dumbed down. It makes for a great headline. I can just imagine the horror over afternoon tea: “Do you know they...
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#ukedchat – a year or so on and I’m still a fan!
I blogged in August 2010 about the weekly #ukedchat discussions that happen every Thursday on Twitter between 8 – 9pm. http://dailydenouement.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/ukedchat/ A year on and I’m more...
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#TLAB13: Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference, Berkhamsted School
4am on a Saturday morning & my alarm is going off. What would get me up at this unearthly time? Why, the inaugural Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference at Berkhamsted School of course!...
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Alastair Smith at #TLAB13: Beware the Ofsted Whisperers
Alastair Smith opened the inaugural #TLAB13 with his keynote speech entitled: 50,000 chunks: how we become ‘experts’ and what it might mean for our conference today. I’ve posted a link to the...
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David Didau at #TLAB13
As an English teacher (and self-confessed Twitter-holic) then the choice of the first #TLAB13 workshop was a no-brainer: I was going to listen to David Didau’s Anatomy of an Outstanding Lesson session....
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After #TLAB13: what next?
It was a long journey home after the conference and I had time to reflect and start to think how I was going to implement some of the things I had seen, heard, discussed, considered… My action plan:...
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#TMLpool: an educational “bring and buy sale”?
At #TLAB13, Alastair Smith spoke about TeachMeets. He’d attended the TeachMeet held at Berkhamsted the night before the main conference. He called it “an educational bring and buy sale” or a “carboot...
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Bill Lucas at #TLAB13
I found Bill Lucas’ keynote interesting. It wasn’t only what he said but, through the power and instant nature of social media, the things others in the audience and beyond were making of the speech as...
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Let’s Go Crazy… or how re-igniting a passion has made me re-think my attitude...
“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life. Electric word life. It means forever and that’s a mighty long time. But I’m here to tell you, there’s something...
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