Later this month I will be organizing St Luke’s CE Primary School‘s second Spanish Week. The first event was quite successful and children had lots of fun but this time I planned it more carefully and decided to share some thoughts that might be helpful when organizing such an event in your school: 1.Know what [...]

category: MFL    

Literacy engagement is a direct determinant of literacy attainment. However, identity investment is equally important. Students will actively engage with literacy only when that engagement is identity-affirming. Thus, if students are seen by teachers, and consequently come to see themselves as not being particular bright academically, they will tend to disengage from academic effort because [...]

category: Language Pedagogy, Learning, Multilingualism    

BloomingQuestions on Storybird I thought Zoe Elder‘s post on coaching to develop questioning expertise suited the ebook above perfectly. Here’s what she suggests: 1. Decide on the purpose of the question Why are you posing the question? To prompt deeper thinking or because you and your students need to ‘cover the ground’? To illicit a [...]

category: Learning, Thinking skills    

category: Learning    

You can’t be creative unless you’re in control of what you’re doing and can get better and better at things.(…) I can’t play the piano and I can’t be creative on the piano because I can’t control it. I can be expressive to a degree, I can bang out some notes that will make me [...]

category: Creativity in education