Teacher of English and Assistant Principal
Bedford
Joined July 2009
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Douglas Wise retweeted
Actors use scripts, musicians use scores, surgeons follow protocols. So what? It’s a rubbish analogy because teaching isn’t a performance or a procedure. Great teaching is responsive. It requires expertise, adaptation and professional judgement.
Actors use scripts. Musicians use sheet music. Surgeons follow established procedures.
Why are scripts for teachers treated as an affront to professionalism?
@ehanford explains why Direct Instruction uses them.
I did some Q5 work this morning. Students had around 20 minutes to craft the opening of a past exam task. Whilst they wrote, I read every piece and highlighted a single sentence to share and discuss in tomorrow’s lesson. So no slide deck needed. Just a visualiser and a pen ✍️
Douglas Wise retweeted
DNA by Dennis Kelly:
* Revision playlist with videos by @bbceducation @MrBruffEnglish & my own revision rap.
*The Knowledge inspired by @DoWise
Resources in the reply:
Revision resource for An Inspector Calls on important moments in the play. A single page for each act douglaswise.co.uk/blog/impor… 🔍
Douglas Wise retweeted
Oracy: a tale of three students.
Harry is a boisterous, noisy lad but he's actually smart and perceptive when he chooses to "lock in". Last year I asked Year 9 why they thought Orwell used animals to write about politics. Harry offered a two-word answer. "They're innocent."
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A document with advice to guide students with their English Language Paper 1 Q5 responses douglaswise.co.uk/blog/advic… 📕
Some advice to help students with their Q5 responses for English Language P2 douglaswise.co.uk/blog/advic… 🖋️
I’ve tried to make the sources and questions for a mini English Language P2 assessment more accessible for one of the classes I teach by placing everything on a single A3 page. No need for flicking though stuff. I’ve also used more generous spacing and numbered every line 📝
A simple resource for Black History Month. A couple of slides containing images of fifteen notable figures and hyperlinks that lead to short, student-friendly bios douglaswise.co.uk/blog/black… 📖
En route to a meeting this afternoon, I spoke to a couple of sixth formers who happened to be talking (of all things) about mortgages as I was passing. We chatted briefly and two things became obvious 1/4
Secondly, connected to this struggle, is the deep pessimism that both students feel about ever being able to get a foot on the property ladder – hence the original conversation they were having when I passed 3/4
Bit of a random offering, but all yours if you want it. A review of Huberman’s new book Protocols douglaswise.co.uk/blog/non-f… Designed simply to be read and discussed as a bit of a break from the norm when studying English Language P2 📰
Douglas Wise retweeted
The decline of reading.
‘By the end of the twentieth century, a college graduate born after 1969 read less than someone born before 1950 with a basic level of education.
Indeed, nowadays many rich and highly educated people are much less well-read than many members of the least privileged classes had been in the middle of the twentieth century.’
edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling…
Douglas Wise retweeted
New post
On gratitude, and the richly woven tapestry of ‘school’
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Behold, one of the greatest blogs of all time:
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@tstarkey1212
A couple of one-page articles that serve as an introduction to gothic and dystopian literature. The former is geared towards The Woman in Black, but should be general enough to be relevant douglaswise.co.uk/blog/intro… 📚
Douglas Wise retweeted
NEW BLOG: I am proud to be disabled
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@chessmartinez
A proud father moment.
Douglas Wise retweeted
Other than tying into the school development plan, how do you decide your English department priorities for the school year? @Team_English1 @SusanSEnglish @shadylady222 @GauravDubay3 @HaleDonal @DoWise