Candy
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Mom, Nan, Reading and Literacy lead, English lead. Loves books, curriculum and T and L. NPQSL. NPQLL
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NEW BLOG: Do it now or do it when you’ve thought about it a bit more?
Sorry for taking a blog holiday!
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/10/do-i...
#engchat #engchatuk
Sorry for taking a blog holiday!
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/10/do-i...
#engchat #engchatuk
Do it now or do it when you’ve thought about it a bit more?
I have written at length about knowledge and its use in English, and this isn’t going to be one of those blogs, but it is about mapping out ...
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October 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW BLOG: Do it now or do it when you’ve thought about it a bit more?
Sorry for taking a blog holiday!
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/10/do-i...
#engchat #engchatuk
Sorry for taking a blog holiday!
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/10/do-i...
#engchat #engchatuk
Bought my ticket at a bargain price! #LitdriveCPD25
🗓️ #LitdriveCPD25 🗓️
Tickets for #LitdriveCPD25 are on sale! Litdrive's National Conference will host over 40 speakers delivering high quality subject specific CPD. Bring your department along! 🐝
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish @Team_English1
Tickets for #LitdriveCPD25 are on sale! Litdrive's National Conference will host over 40 speakers delivering high quality subject specific CPD. Bring your department along! 🐝
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish @Team_English1
January 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Bought my ticket at a bargain price! #LitdriveCPD25
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About 8 years ago, @siobhanleahy50 and I prepared a Quick Reference Guide for Embedding Formative Assessment. It's now out of print, so the copyright has reverted to us, and we are free to share it with anyone who wants it: bit.ly/EFAQRG (pdf).
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December 26, 2024 at 5:24 PM
About 8 years ago, @siobhanleahy50 and I prepared a Quick Reference Guide for Embedding Formative Assessment. It's now out of print, so the copyright has reverted to us, and we are free to share it with anyone who wants it: bit.ly/EFAQRG (pdf).
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Two of the biggest myths about direct instruction:
1. Pupils are passive while the teacher talks endlessly.
2. The teacher tells pupils everything so pupils don’t think for themselves.
These are completely wrong. 🧵 1/
1. Pupils are passive while the teacher talks endlessly.
2. The teacher tells pupils everything so pupils don’t think for themselves.
These are completely wrong. 🧵 1/
November 14, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Two of the biggest myths about direct instruction:
1. Pupils are passive while the teacher talks endlessly.
2. The teacher tells pupils everything so pupils don’t think for themselves.
These are completely wrong. 🧵 1/
1. Pupils are passive while the teacher talks endlessly.
2. The teacher tells pupils everything so pupils don’t think for themselves.
These are completely wrong. 🧵 1/
🗓️ #LitdriveCPD25 🗓️
Tickets for #LitdriveCPD25 are now on sale! Our national conference will be held at Aston University, Birmingham on Saturday 29 March. Joining us? Tag us to let us know! 🐝
Get your tickets here: https://buff.ly/4egekhH
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish @Team_English1
Tickets for #LitdriveCPD25 are now on sale! Our national conference will be held at Aston University, Birmingham on Saturday 29 March. Joining us? Tag us to let us know! 🐝
Get your tickets here: https://buff.ly/4egekhH
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish @Team_English1
September 27, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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NEW BLOG: Booklets for GCSE English Language and Literature. More to follow.
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Booklets for GCSE English and English Literature
Over the past few years, we have been working on how we can use booklets effectively. With Literature texts, there is so much you can do. Th...
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September 1, 2024 at 12:30 PM
NEW BLOG: Booklets for GCSE English Language and Literature. More to follow.
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/09/book...
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Super useful. Thank you!
#Edusky #UKEd
A feed for #ResearchEd, so you can keep up with posts from next weeks national conference if you like.
Please repost & share widely if you think it will be useful
A feed for #ResearchEd, so you can keep up with posts from next weeks national conference if you like.
Please repost & share widely if you think it will be useful
If its #ResearchEd, I've created a feed which people can pin so any posts with the tag can be tracked.
Link here (I've 'borrowed' the logo for the feed - will take down if required)
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Link here (I've 'borrowed' the logo for the feed - will take down if required)
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August 31, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Super useful. Thank you!
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NEW POST: Disciplinary literacy: a step-by-step guide to reading a challenging text in the classroom.
#EduSky #UKEd #UKEDU #UKEducation #HeadteachersUK #teachermentoring #TeacherEducation
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#EduSky #UKEd #UKEDU #UKEducation #HeadteachersUK #teachermentoring #TeacherEducation
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Disciplinary literacy: reading a challenging text in the classroom
This post unpacks a typical approach to reading a challenging text, in this case in a geography lesson. It also describes a number of practices associated with strong ‘adaptive teaching’. Reading chal...
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August 20, 2024 at 1:32 PM
NEW POST: Disciplinary literacy: a step-by-step guide to reading a challenging text in the classroom.
#EduSky #UKEd #UKEDU #UKEducation #HeadteachersUK #teachermentoring #TeacherEducation
jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...
#EduSky #UKEd #UKEDU #UKEducation #HeadteachersUK #teachermentoring #TeacherEducation
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"A culture of pride in working hard." Great blog. I'm looking forward to the next one.
*NEW blog* Do your pupils work hard enough?
Inspired by discussions on Bluesky earlier.
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Inspired by discussions on Bluesky earlier.
bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2024/08/17/d...
Do your pupils work hard enough?
Let's indulge in two thought experiments. Scenario 1. Imagine you have no data about a class you start to teach in September. You have no knowledge about their prior attainment and no knowledge about ...
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August 18, 2024 at 9:53 AM
"A culture of pride in working hard." Great blog. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Thank you. This is a great list of your blogs to share with the department.
A collection of my blogs this year:
A question of tone and not techniques - Why I think we need to put a greater emphasis on tone rather than techniques
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-qu...
A question of tone and not techniques - Why I think we need to put a greater emphasis on tone rather than techniques
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-qu...
A question of tone and not techniques
In the time I have been teaching, I have seen the teaching of English compartmentalised in so many different ways. And, dear reader, you can...
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August 14, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Thank you. This is a great list of your blogs to share with the department.
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