All things Educational. Sharing resources for Secondary English
As the academic year begins, reflections on the teaching profession highlight its demanding nature and rewarding relationships. Completing a Master’s degree while managing personal challenges emphasized the importance of perseverance and team culture. Leadership focuses on empowering colleagues, fostering a supportive environment, and prioritizing balance to enhance student and staff wellbeing.
This content presents five innovative revision strategies to enhance study efficiency. It covers the Leitner question cards for spaced repetition, the importance of planning essays instead of writing full ones, interleaving topics, the Feynman Technique for simplification and understanding, and dual coding through active drawing for better memory recall.
Oracy is essential for success in education, influencing academic achievement and social confidence. Despite often being overshadowed by literacy, structured speaking activities like Think-Pair-Share, debates, and vocabulary instruction can significantly enhance students' communication skills. Prioritizing oracy fosters deeper learning and prepares students for future challenges across various contexts.
Mark Twain's quote emphasizes that the ability to read alone does not guarantee knowledge or personal growth; it’s the engagement with books that matters. In a world full of distractions, active reading fosters critical thinking, empathy, and continuous learning. True value comes from utilizing literacy to explore and reflect, enhancing one’s life significantly.
Many families in international schools have multilingual backgrounds, necessitating extra support for children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL). Parents can assist by enriching vocabulary through reading, word games, and engaging storytelling. Emphasizing literacy, conversation, and cultural heritage strengthens language development, fostering fluency and confidence in English without undermining the home language.
The text emphasizes the crucial role of vocabulary in education, particularly for EAL/ESL learners. It highlights effective teaching strategies and structured curriculum planning to enhance vocabulary awareness, ensuring students’ success and academic growth. By integrating vocabulary instruction across subjects, students become more confident and capable in using language, positively impacting their learning outcomes.
The initiative focuses on enhancing vocabulary instruction by implementing a 'Word of the Week' program. This approach emphasizes context and etymology, benefiting students, particularly EAL and ESL learners. By exploring synonyms and antonyms, students engage in discussions about nuanced meanings. The program aims to foster a robust vocabulary instruction framework in the school.
Our school is wonderfully tight-knit which comes from the small through-school qualities and has fostered more primary/secondary collaborations than I had experienced in the UK. As an English teacher, my day-to-day teaching was greatly affected by the change in cohort comparably: my previous UK schools were in deprived areas with predominantly white working-class families with [...]
The author reflects on their journey in education, expressing a profound love for literature and lifelong learning. Teaching across various subjects and schools, including overseas, has enriched their experience. Inspired by the #EduTwitter community, they embrace sharing resources through their blog, fostering a culture of support and shared knowledge while encouraging their students' passion for learning.
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