PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL AND PORTFOLIO
In late 2019 I was anonymously nominated for a National Excellence in Teaching award, and after submitting my application – the content of which I publish here – I found myself in the beehive at a pretty flash luncheon receiving two of the awards, one for excellence and one for innovation. As a member of […]
Now safely embedded back home in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, my restlessness has not abated. As a result I pitched the micro-credentials idea to an educational charity, The Education Hub, who are funding educational innovation in schools. The success of this bid has lead to the launch of a micro-credentials project in my […]
An Al Jazeera documentary about the work we did at the London Nautical School Department of English
Most of what I know about learning I discovered through running on mountain trails. This journal entry represents my manifesto for teaching and learning in...
Picture this: a classroom inhabited by a class preparing for a “functional skills” English assessment. The students are clear about what was expected of them....
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...
Here I write some of my thoughts as I head into the new teaching year. I recently received a message from a newly qualified teacher...
In the eye of the GCSE English “grade manipulation storm”, I’m seeing a silver lining Almost as soon as this year’s GCSE English grades were...
The Importance of Being … Out Why Sexuality Matters in English Chris Waugh reflects on his experiences as a gay English teacher, arguing that...
Excuse this moment of geekery, but I simply couldn’t find this information anywhere online, and it would have saved me a lot of grief should...
