It’s been a hard year. You’re tired, the students are tired… and July is still weeks away. Here are some simple strategies for making sure both you and your students get through to the end of term unscathed! Take it … Continue reading Six Simple Strategies for Coping with the End of Term
Ignoring the fact that most of us follow the academic calendar more closely than the Gregorian one, we have a New Year’s challenge for you, ourselves and your students…how many titles on the GCSE reading list have you devoured? A quick Internet search on January 1st revealed a plethora of different reading challenges, including one with a “foolproof plan on how to read 300 books in 365 days”. Unless that plan incorporates a) jacking in work or b) students’ exercise books (in which case, what a doddle!), then 300 books looks like a pipedream to us. The average English teacher … Continue reading GCSE Reading List: How Many Have You Read?
