Here is a blog from someone who knows how to deliver effective feedback. Well worth a read and looking at his blog page
https://jamesdurran.blog/2017/06/17/follow-up-questions/amp/
Category: English
Literacy shorts
Here is a blog that has brief explanations of literary techniques and terminology.
https://douglaswiseblog.wordpress.com/category/literacy-shorts/
Questioning templates
From @reflectingenglish
“Over the past few months I have been putting together an exhaustive list of what I call ‘analytical question templates’. These are generic question structures that provoke analytical and critical responses to texts. They are useful to English teachers but probably not to anyone else”.
Enagaging students at the start of the lesson
Here are some ideas from the Guardian on how to start lessons in an engaging way.
Effectiveness of homework
Here is a summary of the evidence from the EEF on the effectiveness of homework. It also contains some suggestions on how to improve it.
https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/resources/teaching-learning-toolkit/homework-secondary
Teacher explanation tips
“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)
“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”
Weekly writing challenge
Here is a link to this 200 word writing challenge that’s number of schools are using and looks interesting…
https://thelearningprofession.wordpress.com/2017/05/31/on-the-weekly-writing-challenge/
Norton College Teaching and Learning Blog 