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Welcome to the Elition Blog. Here, you’ll see semi-regular posts from members of the team exploring some of their recent teaching experiences, reading and the rationale behind our practice.
It's very much a work-in-progress as the site develops and we hope you find something worthwhile.
James
Aug 25, 20242 min read
Metacognition: Strategies for English Classrooms
Metacognition sounds complicated. Conversations about it can certainly feel that way at times, partly due to the difficulty in containing...
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James
Feb 25, 20242 min read
How Do We Create a More Diverse Curriculum in English? Part 3: Teaching ItÂ
Four weeks into the unit and our students are gradually engaging with the complex ideas around how context applies to their study of The...
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Suzy
Feb 21, 20243 min read
The Perfect Poetry Unit, Part 3: Build From The Heart
As I’ve covered in the first two posts in this series, enthusiasm and engagement should always be your starting point if it’s likely that...
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Suzy
Feb 16, 20242 min read
The Perfect Poetry Unit, Part 2: Start Strong
Whatever anthology or collection you’re teaching, there will be thematic groups or common threads that will help in terms of basic...
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James
Feb 7, 20242 min read
Revision, Retrieval, Recall
I like the idea that revision should be uncomfortable. I wish that had been explained to me at school as being a natural part of the...
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Suzy
Jan 25, 20243 min read
The Perfect Poetry Unit, Part 1: Define Your Terms
I don’t hate it when students come into my classroom on the first day of a poetry unit and tell me how much they despise poetry. It’s...
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James
Jan 14, 20243 min read
How Do We Create a More Diverse Curriculum in English? (Part 2)
In Part 1, I discussed some reasons for introducing a more challenging range of texts in an English curriculum that reflected a wider...
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James
Nov 13, 20233 min read
Narrative and Descriptive Skills: Attempts at Getting Writing ‘Right’
Directed writing and composition tasks for IGCSE English Language courses expect a lot from their students. Tasks usually consist of: A...
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James
Nov 6, 20233 min read
Experiments in De-Implementation
In international schools the notion that ‘going above and beyond’ is the norm is, in most cases, the norm. It’s even baked into teacher...
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James
Oct 28, 20233 min read
How Do We Create a More Diverse English Curriculum? (Part 1)
The next few blog posts in this series cover how we introduced more diverse, current and challenging texts into our English curriculum....
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James
May 10, 20232 min read
Reflections on 'Closing the Vocabulary Gap' by Alex Quigley
Perhaps a little late to the party but I finally got around to reading Alex Quigley’s ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. While focused on a...
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