Sitemap - 2009 - The mythopoetic classroom

Remembering C. A. ('Dinger') Bell

Thanks to some folk I've never met

How to improve literacy rates: a simple plan

ELPC 4: And finally, a rubric

ELPC Part 3: Redefining writing? What next!

ELPC Part 2: Inching towards a more charged focus question

ELPC Part 1: A fertile research question

Why Shakespeare? A student perspective

Involving university students in research

A Year 10 student's response to the story of Heloise and Abelard

The mystery of learning to read

Thoughts on ‘literacy across the curriculum’ from my students

Cris Tovani’s ‘Do I really have to teach reading?

On the nature of literacy (with a nod to Spinoza)

The teacher as Napoleon Bonaparte!

Walking through the barrier: Josh Part 3

Doubts and loves: Josh Part 2

The walled city: Josh Part 1

Alex the parrot, Elizabeth Bennet and the soul's code

Why am I passionate about the English discipline?

Play the game.

What I think I know about reading

Preparing myself to read something challenging

Headlights in the fog

Football clubs adapt to changing world. But schools

A broken sleep: pre-term anxieties

Expectations, optimism and student performance

Rubrics Part 3: a noun or a verb?

Rubrics Part 2: Is it the discussion rather than the rubric that helps?

Rubrics Part 1: The search for meaning

Searching for meaning in our English classrooms

Peter Part 2: the link between clear thinking and better writing

Peter Part 1: raising standards without dampening enthusiasm

My English classroom: challenging student stereotypes about satire

Being dizzied and made anxious by the-as-yet unknown.

What do the students want to know?

Bringing the world into the classroom