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The myth of gained time
One of the many lies we tell ourselves about the summer term is the one about ‘gained time’. For teachers, struggling through the spring term and faced with the inhumane amount …
Thinking of studying psychology at university?
Thinking of studying psychology at university? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpS8g34vPGQ&list=PLCkLQOAPOtT2ATuX2Kz0tApFp-UUFwlIZ Here are the benefits of a BPS course.
Being a teacher with a chronic illness.
Illness is other people. Really sick people, not me. I have been a teacher for 16 years and an AS sufferer for 28 years. I have other roles in life; …
The problems with becoming an evidence-based teacher: science and pseudoscience in education
A scientific approach to our teaching methods is a commitment to a systematic way of thinking, a healthy skepticism about ones own ideas and those of other people. It is …
The problem with SCLY 4: Crime and Deviance option.
Dear AQA, I wanted to take this opportunity to give some teacher feedback on the SCLY 4 paper that our students sat this summer. I have been a social science …
Brexit in the classroom.
Like many in our profession, I am gutted. The Brexit result has knocked me for six and I still cannot quite believe it. Clearly, I am in Kubler-Ross’ denial stage …
Hickman out
Our final class is done and the ink is dry on your exam papers. It will be strange to think that we will not be part of each others lives anymore, I will never mark another one of your essays nor will you have to put up with my appalling jokes and long-winded stories.
The problem with linear A-levels: more for less?
Sometimes, teaching can feel like an eternal hard labour of sisyphean proportions. It can be a bit frustrating, unrewarding and repetitive. I guess it is difficult to feel as …
On wishing my students good luck
Well, here we are again. It feels like yesterday when we were just meeting and sussing each other out. Like two large walruses upon first seeing each other; suspicious but …
Predicted grades: Between Scylla and Charybdis
It is predicted grades time and I am agonising more than ever. It has always been a task that has filled me with dread but this year it is at best overwhelming. My anxiety about the new specifications and the unknowns about grade boundaries has sent me into a spin.
the unconscious curriculum 