Pupil: “Miss, what does patronising mean?” Me: “When you talk down to someone as if they’re younger or inferior to you – in a bad way.” Pupil: “Oh, you mean like you did in our first ever lesson together?” First...
Six weeks before the first round of the new GCSE syllabus I received an email from senior management informing me that there would be ‘Exam Intervention Support’ for a pupil in my class who had been predicted to fail. In fact they were predicted to fail...
I have taught in various guises for 17 years. I have mentored trainee teachers, taught PGCE students at University and written articles on teaching. But it is only in the last 2-3 years I have been able to reflect and articulate the first step to my teaching approach....
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