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Aug

30

2016

September Starts: Renewal and Marginal gains

by Jamie Thom

in Teaching and Learning

“One of the most difficult things is not to change society, but to change yourself.” — Nelson Mandela One of the amazing things about teaching is its capacity for renewal. Each September brings with it a new start: an opportunity for reinvention, however large or small. A new and eager brand of customers sit poised and ready, their minds empty vessels awaiting inspiration. That endless and sleepless...

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Aug

30

2016

Setting up a New Classroom

by Jamie Thom

in Teaching and Learning

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own By a range of factors, two schools and five years later I have not yet managed to have my own ‘space’, a room that I, and my students, can recognise as our own. This year I am hugely grateful (ding, ding)...

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