An English Teacher's Toolbox
* Looking for inspiration and motivation, to share with others. * Looking to constantly improve and grow. * On Twitter at @MissBex_M *
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National Poetry Competition 2013: The winning poem
National Poetry Competition 2013: The winning poem http://gu.com/p/3emh9
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My Favorite Artist - Doug Hyde
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“Getting so into a book that everything around you fades away.”
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Monday morning...
#Accurate
LOL. This is so going to be me. I still have a 3000 word assignment to complete...
You can find some of my ‘shared’ resources available on @tes here
1. Don’t have a full time job. If you are to teach a perfect lesson, then the first thing you must ensure is that you are not a full time teacher. Full time teachers haven’t got the time to teach perfect lessons. It’s only gurus who can do this because gurus don’t have pigeonholes to check.
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Descriptive/ narrative/ setting/ #writingprompt
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Photographer Stephen Wilkes creates remarkable images of night and day at once by setting up his camera to take pictures of a single scene over and over for 15 hours. He then blends the images to get this time-defying effect.
This could be an excellent creative writing prompt/ or prompt for a small vocaublary based project. Very inspiring! :)
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(via tunedintoteaching)
- What Makes YouTube Unique – Basic facts and figures (40 minutes) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 1,Slides Lesson 1
- Detecting Lies – (35 minutes) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 2, Slides Lesson 2
- Safety Mode – (5 minutes) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 3, Slides Lesson 3
- Online Reputation and Cyberbullying – (45 minutes) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 4, Slides Lesson 4
- Policy – The Community Guidelines (20 minutes) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 5, Slides Lesson 5
- Reporting content – Flagging (20 minutes) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 6, Slides Lesson 6
- Privacy part 1 – (40 minutes) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 7, Slides Lesson 7
- Privacy part 2 – (50 minutes) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 8, Slides Lesson 8
- Copyright – (40 mins) – Teacher’s Guide Lesson 9, Slides Lesson 9
- Additional resources/Appendix including parent resources – Teacher’s Guide Additional Materials, Slides Additional Materials
Or you can download the Full Teacher’s Guide or the Full Set of Slides in PDF.
Online-stopwatch.com has many fun version of stop watches to display on your Smart Board. Helps to keep your student visually see the amount of time remaining for any given task.
Creative Writing Prompt: Here is another beautiful setting which you could explore and allow pupils to create narratives/ descriptions for. I would work on word webs (vocabulary) first, and talk about creating a mood/ atmosphere.
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Everyone draws themselves as a lego figure.
Might be useful!
