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Christopher Waugh

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Give them Hope

Give them Hope

Dec 5, 2016 | Presentations, Students

My last assembly presentation featuring one of my heroes and an exhortation to my students to be their wonderful selves.

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

It’s not the mountain we conquer

Mar 28, 2015 | 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

Jun 1, 2013 | 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...

Presentation to Pedagoo London

Presentation to Pedagoo London

Mar 3, 2013 | Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Presentations, Reflection, Students

This is the information that accompanied my two presentations to Pedagoo London on 2 March 2013. The event was a grass-roots un-conference run by teachers for our own professional development. It brought together a group of about 200 practitioners from all over the...

Presentation to Teachmeet BETT: From Intention to Effect

Presentation to Teachmeet BETT: From Intention to Effect

Feb 2, 2013 | Feedback, Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Presentations, Students

In this presentation, delivered live to Teachmeet BETT 2013, I introduced the intentions behind the development of EDUTRONIC  and then provide evidence, in the form of a snapshot of a single interaction with a Year 8 Student, Henry via his online English journal

Why should my students blog?

Why should my students blog?

Oct 7, 2012 | Open Classroom, Opinion, Pedagogy, Reflection, Students

Two days ago the long-awaited installation of internet-connected devices landed in my underground classroom. The buzz was palpable. My students, unable to contain their enthusiasm, started to burble inchoate (and largely unwarranted) references to my being "Their...

Learn Through Making: The World’s Best Film Club

Learn Through Making: The World’s Best Film Club

Sep 30, 2012 | Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Students

The London Nautical School has for the past 4 years had the privilege of participating in an international film making programme run by the French film archive the Cinematheque Francaise. This is a film learning programme like no other. Groups of students from all...

“Except when they don’t, because sometimes they won’t”

Sep 4, 2012 | Advice, Anecdotes, Students

Sometimes things just don't go the way you'd hoped in a new school. Here is some advice for students and their parents about how to turn a bad situation around. It will not escape your notice that secondary schools run an elaborate scheme of rewards and sanctions that...

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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Give them Hope

Give them Hope

Presentations, Students

My last assembly presentation featuring one of my heroes and an exhortation to my students to be their wonderful selves.

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...