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Christopher Waugh

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Our Presentation at Northern Rocks #NRocks

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

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...

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...

An Explanation: Romeo and Juliet – Fate and Interpretation

Jun 22, 2013 | 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

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

If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes

If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes

Jan 5, 2013 | Advice, Opinion, Pedagogy, Politics, Reflection

Albert Einstein defined insanity as: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Yet, inescapably, the English education system ignores this logic, and repeats the same tired strategies and the same ill-informed notions in and out of the...

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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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Our Presentation at Northern Rocks #NRocks

Assessment, Featured, Open Classroom, Pedagogy, Presentations, Students

National Excellence in Teaching Award

National Excellence in Teaching Award

Featured, Geekery, Open Classroom

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...

Podcast: See Me After Class

Podcast: See Me After Class

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http://achieve.edutronic.net/smac-see-me-after-class/ 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...

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...