An advertisement for tutoring caught my eye yesterday. I walked past, but the choice of words stoked something in me that made me turn back and take a photo.
Category Archives: Teaching
A story to say a fond farewell
“I think you can go ANYWHERE!”
‘And off they went’
My 3 minute video
‘What is meant by blending and segmenting?’
Slow… How?
I love the idea of slow pedagogy. I just don’t know how.
3, 2, 1, SLOW! (Why all the rush?)
#TheUrgencyOfSlow
#TheUnhurriedChild
#SlowPedagogy
#EYFS
2 years ago today
Written 09/09/2020 Published 01/09/2022 This is the embarrassingly true story of how I introduced myself to my new colleagues on the first day of the 2020/2021 academic year.
Forty-nine
I am a 49 year old woman. Is that why I’m having trouble getting a teaching job?
Scaffolding
The Practice of Scaffolding in the Teaching of Reading
(Shared Reading meets Reading Recovery, thanks to Seamus Heaney…)
Decodable phonics?
Love them or loathe them phonics decodables are part of the furniture in primary classrooms today.
Here are some pointers for parents who might be wondering what to do with them…
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