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10 Ways To Give Better Feedback

10 Ways To Give Better Feedback

Feedback comes in all shapes, sizes and flavours but the bottom line is that it must serve a learning function to bring about transformation and improve performance. Feedback needs to be expansive and dynamic, not limited and static so that...

4 min

Literacy at Post-16

Literacy at Post-16

One of the biggest challenges I face as an English teacher in a 6th Form College is in helping students to jump a ‘literacy gap’. College students– especially those on A level courses –are often required to have a high level...

3 min

Getting the Most from Group Work

Getting the Most from Group Work

On a recent TeachMeet training course at Manchester College, I was lucky enough to watch some great speakers looking at things such as Going Google, using Kloodle (more on this in a later blog) and raising attainment strategies.

3 min

Silence is Golden: the power of the silent discussion

Silence is Golden: the power of the silent discussion

I have to admit that my classroom is noisy. My lessons are full of discussion, some of which is even relevant to the task in hand. I sometimes worry, though, that my students do not always get enough opportunity to...

4 min