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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!

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English Scholarship

Advice, Assessment, Opinion, Pedagogy

Bags and Chris compare notes on how they tend to approach the preparation of students for the Unfamiliar Texts section in the New Zealand English Scholarship examination.

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...

SEXUALITY

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...

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English Scholarship

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Who I am, What I do.

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Who I am, What I do.