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Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer

Prince – Everyday Is A Winding Road – Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

Possible Solutions to some issues faced:

1. “4 the Tears in Your Eyes” – A little help with a Deep Dive (department review)
2. “7” – A little help with some resources, help yourself!
3. “1000 X’s & O’s”  – A little help for Edexcel Component 1- Fiction
4. “1000 X’s & O’s”  – A little help for Edexcel Component 2 – Non-Fiction
5. “Adore” – A little help teaching poetry.
6. “All The Critics Love U In New York” – A little help with group work/activities!
7. “Alphabet St” – A little help with Literacy.
8. “Around the World in a Day” – A little help with masterclasses, projects, lectures
9. “Baby I’m a Star”  – A little help with my most requested shares.
10. “Betcha by Golly Wow” – A little help with extracts and articles for exam spec.
11. “Chaos And Disorder” – A little help ideas for new staff with units/AO
12. “Condition Of The Heart” – A little help with books I’ve read and recommend
13. “Damned if I Do” – A little help with marking and feedback 
14. “Deconstruction” – A little help with Examiner Top Tips and Comments
15. “Extraordinary” – A little help with some of my favourite twitter steals
16. “Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful”  – A little help with KS3 interventions
17. “Forever” – A little help with setting high standards and expectations
18. “Get Yo Groove On” – A little help with KS4 interventions and strategies
19. “Gold” – A little help with… where I have gone wrong!
20. “Let’s Work” – A little help with planning lessons/resources
21. “Reflection” (part 1) – A little help with raising the bar/standards at KS3
22. “Resolution” – A little help with Cover
23. “Revelation” – A little help with why we shouldn’t (& don’t) teach extracts 
24. “Saviour” – A little help with English teachers to follow
25. “Scandalous” – A little help with the importance of reading
26. “Slave” – AQA Paper 1 – A little help with AQA Eng language 8700 paper 1
27. “Slave” – AQA Paper 2 – A little help with AQA Eng language 8700 paper 2
28. “Strange Relationship” – A little help with home/school communication
29. “Superhero” – A little help with YA books I’ve read, and recommend
30. “The Question of U” – A little help with useful lists I’ve compiled 
31. “Time” – A little help with the subtlety of English language
32. “Willing And Able” – A little help with becoming a middle leader (HOD)

Guest Blogs I’ve written

1. One literacy lead suggests how we can reconcile the differences in approach of KS2 and KS3 literacy five-ways-end-ks2-ks3-literacy-arguments

2. End-of-year ‘fun’ lessons are often a waste of students’ precious time – we need to engage them in a way that means they are still learning, says one English teacher’ Throw fun out of the window

3. When everything is going wrong, middle leaders need to be able to carry on and hold everything together. How to keep the plates spinning as a middle leader 

4. How to Get GCSE Students to Plan and Write English Literature Essays that Fully Demonstrate their Understanding Getting Students to write literature essays!

Re-Blogs

This first link is a MUST, Nick’s collected an amazing bibli-lography of English teaching blogs.

• An English Teachers’ Bibli-blography by @NSMWells a collation of blogs about aspects of English teaching.
• English Subject Knowledge Reading by nsmwells list of texts which English teachers have recommended as being useful for developing different areas of subject knowledge.

GDPR

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