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Best Gift Ever – thank a teacher

Kristian Still 18 Jul ’24 19 Jul ’24

Here is a short post about the end of year and a story about a pupil, a teacher, a class reader and the end of year tradition to thank teachers. The pupil is Tom. I’m the teacher. (With my safeguarding …

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Kristian Still 19 Dec ’10 19 Dec ’10

If you don’t know what the passions of those in front of you are then you’ll never know how to teach the people in front of you. Marc Prensky, taken from a Ewan McIntosh blogpost

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No rescuing3 Nov ’24
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It started with reading sports team Coach biographies. John Wooden, Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski (Basketball), Sir Alex Ferguson, Johan Cruyff, Anson Dorrance (Football), Sir Clive Woodward and James Kerr’s Legacy (Rugby) and Dave Brailsford (Cycling) and there were plenty others. It turns out, many of …