Recently there has been a huge spike in views of this post from 2018 where I shared a selection of retrieval practice starter activities which could be used in MFL lessons. At that time I was doing a lot of thinking and writing about this, […]
Ever since I started my teacher training I have been on Twitter. At the time there didn’t seem to be loads of trainees on there, but that seemed to quickly grow and now it seems to be more common for early career teachers to join […]
When you’re making a podcast and enjoy it as much as most of us do, it’s really easy to forget that actually most people don’t have a clue that podcasts are out there. So the aim of this blog is to let you know a […]
Over the last few weeks I have been writing and then delivering my presentation for the Chartered College of Teaching Early Career Conference. My topic was high expectations and motivation. In my session I tried my best to give a balance in terms of discussion […]
Over the last week or so, some podcasts I have listened to as well as conversation with colleagues has got me really thinking about our use of technology in the classroom. It’s a topic I’ve written about before, but that I wanted to consdier in […]
This year Challenge is one of our main areas of focus in terms of Teaching and Learning. It is something we have really embraced in MFL, in fact, we were planning new schemes of work for Key Stage Three before the focus was even announced. […]
I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while now. When the MFLTwitterati Podcast started earlier on this year I really enjoyed listening to it and it opened up a world that I hadn’t really delved into. Education podcasts – there are way more around […]
I’ll be honest, it’s a fact I’ve never tried to hide, I didn’t think teaching was necessarily going to be for me. I started my School Direct course with the intention of training, doing my NQT and then re-evaluating, knowing I’d have QTS if I […]
I was very pleased to be contacted by Oxford University Press last month to be asked to write a couple of pieces for them. They can be found at the following links:
More than anything else, my main takeaway from ResearchEd Rugby was that those of us speaking on the MFL strand (from the sessions that I attended at least) agreed on more than we differed. Whilst one of the reasons these events are so great is […]
