Calamity Teacher
Friday 1 June 2018
Why are we all so broke?
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It's no secret that education is bankrupt financially. And we really need a solution. Teachers are leaving in droves, resources are stre...
Thursday 31 May 2018
Three Years On
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Hello. Well. That was dramatic. It's been a while since I've written a blog post on here. I had actually nearly forgotten about ...
Monday 22 February 2016
What Makes a Great English Teacher
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This was originally a question I answered on Quora that really got me thinking. We are inviting applications at the moment, and it's...
Saturday 23 January 2016
You work until when?
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Hello everyone. This is hard for me to say. I am a teacher. And I work until Five. Shock, Gasp, Horror. Oh. Wait. You ONLY work un...
We Need to Talk about Thursday
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We need to talk about Thursday. Why do we need to talk about Thursday? Because I'm pretty sure that it was the best teaching day of my l...
Wednesday 22 July 2015
Teaching and Watching
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So it's the summer, right? And you're already bored, right? And it's inevitably going to rain, because it's England, and tha...
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Tuesday 21 July 2015
There will be a story there.
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I have always assumed that the birth of a school followed a secular immaculate conception. That schools just sprang up, or had always been t...
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Tuesday 7 July 2015
Planning backwards
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I read this blog post this week, and I thought about one of the major points, that is, planning backwards from A-level. In September, I am ...
It's all in the name
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I am an 'Outstanding' teacher, in an 'Outstanding' school, and I am being bullied, day after day, by a group of year seven s...
Tuesday 30 June 2015
Inspire me, I dare you.
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It has become the opium of the masses for those who gaze with longing eyes on the pay packet of the Senior Leader. It's perfect little ...
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