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Christopher Waugh

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Rebel Education – A Documentary

Jan 10, 2017 | Featured, Open Classroom, Pedagogy

An Al Jazeera documentary about the work we did at the London Nautical School Department of English

Our Presentation to Pedagoo London

Jul 4, 2015 | Pedagogy, Presentations, Students

Our Presentation at Northern Rocks #NRocks

Jun 17, 2015 | Assessment, Featured, Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Presentations, Students

Presentation: Unlock Achievement

Mar 23, 2015 | Assessment, Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Presentations

As part of my Deus Ex Machina series, here is the information that went with my presentation to Teachmeet Islington. Heaps more detail about our Unlock Achievement project can be found in my Journal entry on the topic https://vimeo.com/122935524

Unlock Achievement – Microcredentials for the secondary classroom

Unlock Achievement – Microcredentials for the secondary classroom

Feb 15, 2015 | Assessment, Featured, Open Classroom, Pedagogy

In another step towards restoring authenticity to the secondary classroom, our department has completely re-created our process of assessment. We have abandoned the old ‘curriculum levels’ model and replaced it with a standards-based badged achievement system.

Deus ex Machina

Deus ex Machina

Jun 20, 2014 | Anecdotes, Open Classroom, Opinion, Pedagogy

Presentation to the Sunday Times Festival of Education, exploring the "God in the Machine". The notion that it is through setting up a class environment that concentrates on the imperatives of authenticity and agency, the aspects of learning that we care about...

Research in Action: Presentation to ResearchEd 2013

Feb 4, 2014 | Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Presentations, Research

http//www.vimeo.com/85867921  

Presentation to Teachmeet BETT 2014

Presentation to Teachmeet BETT 2014

Jan 23, 2014 | Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Presentations

You can also read my "It Takes a Village" Post

Agency through Authenticity

Agency through Authenticity

Oct 24, 2013 | Open Classroom, Opinion, Pedagogy, Presentations

Presentation to the #i2ipartnership teachmeet, held on 24 October 2013

Build a New English Department: Step One – The People

Build a New English Department: Step One – The People

Aug 29, 2013 | Anecdotes, Featured, Open Classroom, Pedagogy

He aha te mea nui? He tangata. He tangata. He tangata. (What is the most important thing?  It is people, it is people, it is people.) I start a new year in a new role, Head of Department for English. As part of my application process for the position, I was asked to...

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ADVICE

It’s not the mountain we conquer

Advice, Featured, Presentations, Students

This presentation was made to an assembly of 15-18 year olds on the day of their receiving their results from a series of practice examinations. The quote can be attributed to Sir Edmund Hilary. Thanks to Cath Wilberforce for filming it!

Four Successful Homework Strategies

Four Successful Homework Strategies

Advice, Homework, Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Resources, Students

Homework is one of the most fraught areas of secondary teaching. We know it's important, its impact is visible and its routines don't offend common sense. Yet in the daily reality of the classroom homework is so often reduced to an after-thought, a misery and a...

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Rebel Education – A Documentary

Featured, Open Classroom, Pedagogy

An Al Jazeera documentary about the work we did at the London Nautical School Department of English

Our Presentation to Pedagoo London

Pedagogy, Presentations, Students

RESOURCES

An Explanation: Romeo and Juliet – Fate and Interpretation

Anecdotes, Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Reflection, Resources

This month's #blogsync calls for "an example of a great classroom explanation". I must admit that I have thought twice about the following contribution as there's a sense that it really does put me in the firing line - and with a recent damning judgement by an...

Four Successful Homework Strategies

Four Successful Homework Strategies

Advice, Homework, Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Resources, Students

Homework is one of the most fraught areas of secondary teaching. We know it's important, its impact is visible and its routines don't offend common sense. Yet in the daily reality of the classroom homework is so often reduced to an after-thought, a misery and a...

SEXUALITY

Who I am, What I do.

Who I am, What I do.

Anecdotes, Reflection, Sexuality

This piece was written as a contribution to Rory Gallagher's "Who I am, What I do" teachers' personal testimony blog. My path to the classroom started for me on the impossibly isolated South Island of New Zealand. It’s a story of how I was saved by literature and...

Why I’m an Openly Gay Teacher

Anecdotes, Opinion, Pedagogy, Publications, Sexuality

The Importance of Being ... Out Why Sexuality Matters in English Chris Waugh reflects on his experiences as a gay English teacher, arguing that openness about sexuality is a crucial element of the work of the English classroom. If I were given the opportunity to speak...