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Your Creative Writing Toolkit [FREE worksheets]
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“Writing is the painting of the voice!“ Voltaire Contrary to popular belief, creative writing is not a supernatural ability that some are unfairly gifted with; it is a craft that can be honed with practice and support. We’re here to help! With these worksheets, you’ll be writing like some of the best in no time!…
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Oliver Twist [Free Character Quotation Worksheets]
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Teaching is intense, from planning, to teaching, to marking. Sometimes it is hard to design beautiful resources. Our book spotlight today is Oliver Twist and to ease the process learning key quotations we designed FREE Character Quotation Worksheets. Here are some that may come in handy! Download the following free Oliver Twist Character Quotation Worksheets,…
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How to achieve high level inference! Top tricks on how for English Literature students! [DOWNLOAD FREE INFERENCE LADDER TEMPLATE]
Inference is a big part of English Literature. You may hear your teacher talking about it. You will certainly see reference to it in revision guides and in mark schemes. But what is it? And why do we need it? What is Inference? Let’s start with the definition: So basically:…
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Exam Boards Mark Inconsistently! How Can We Stop It?
You might recall our previous post in which we spoke about the problems with our marking. If not, click here! Teachers aside, even examiners can’t agree on grades which makes marking inconsistency a huge issue! This makes students the primary victims of a growing marking crisis. A recent report published by Ofqual ‘Marking consistency studies’…
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AI is not here to replace your teacher, it’s here to help!
Fears about Artificial Intelligence Stephen Hawking certainly didn’t allay fears about AI when he said, “artificial intelligence may replace humans altogether!” After reading this, nobody would believe that AI is here to help our teachers. Forget about helping teacher workload, he suggested it would take our jobs altogether. Furthermore, In 1951, Alan Turing (A.I. pioneer)…
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Problems with our Marking Need to Change
Emily Dickinson once expressed poetically “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” But some truths are too important to leave unsaid. Some truths can change lives. Some truths can save our children’s education. So here’s nothing but the truth to our teachers. Here it is: unedited, uncut, unrevised. Are you ready? There are problems…
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Teacher Workload – Why helping to manage it is important for us all
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery Teacher workload is the most complained about and oft-cited reason for our educators quitting the…