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I first used “Pegasus Mail” at Tauntons College twenty years ago. I have been writing emails ever since and never heard of BLUF. BLUF stands for “Bottom Line Up Front.” It’s a communication strategy that puts the most important information …
Every time I prepare to teach a new text, I find myself thinking about, and exploring, the differences and the intersection of understanding and comprehension. The vocabulary knowledge required to access the text, the knowledge required to understand the text …
Here is a short post spawned from a statement and a question. The statement: Routines are not the same as habits. The question: Is there a better term than “routine” to describe such sequenced action(s)? It is a perennial topic …
When teaching spills over and beyond the classroom and one of your pupils shares their story writing, you almost have to give it a wider audience. The following extract was written as part of an end of Year 7 genre …
For the past three years, in developing my English teaching pedagogy, I developed a professional interest in production effects, initially with reference to retrieval practice design and vocabulary acquisition and latterly with to proofreading and editing. Production effects: the difference …
If you occasionally swing past this blog you’ll not be surprised by the headline. What you may not be aware of is that quizzing also reduces course failure rates or increases the odds of passing a class. “…the odds of …
Dr Anita Archer is an educational consultant to school districts on explicit instruction. She has taught primary and secondary school students, served on the faculties of several renowned universities, published numerous books about teaching and learning, and had a huge …
Planning is essential however plans are pretty useless. Teaching Holes by Louis Sachar for the first time, the scheme of learning was written with plenty of wriggle room. However in the final two weeks of teaching barely resonabled the plan. …
