Lists, maybe you love them or hate them. Personally I am not very good at making them. However, today I appeared on one! Many thanks to Promethean World who listed me amongst their Twitter Recommendations here http://bit.ly/23Ox7VI I certainly appear alongside some impressive tweeters. Usually, these type of lists of recommended people always seem to have […]
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Supporting the EAL child in the Primary Science Classroom
Supporting the EAL child in the Primary Science classroom requires the use of real concrete objects. Using real objects will provide more vocabulary. To get this message across I started off with the teachers gathering together all the vocabulary they could think of for a lemon. When they had done this, I then showed them a coloured […]
Practical Pedagogies 2015
Practical Pedagogies Conference was held on 15th to 16th October 2015 at the International School of Toulouse (IST). This was my first workshop held at an International Teachers Conference, and to say that I was looking forward to this event is probably an understatement. I have run many CPD events for both my own company […]
Blogging in Russia
Just a very quick update, the children in this school as yet have not had the opportunity to start blogging so myself and the year five teacher have set up class blogs. Here is the link to my year 4 class http://aisyear4.blogspot.ru/ I have also set up a school podcast here http://audioboo.fm/AtlanticDubrovka. I will add a link for […]
Teaching In Russia
Well as of this Saturday 26th April 2014 I will have been in Moscow a total of 15 days. I will not go into the reasons as to why a fairly large group of teachers where recruited to teach for Atlantic International School in Moscow but needless to say it has been quite an amazing […]
Teaching
Is a demanding job which is both frustrating and delightful in equal measure. Yes we have reasonable holidays which most teachers use to catch up on work they cannot do when the children are in school. To see the horrendous comments following this article is most upsetting.(not the actual article, the comments section that follows) […]