It’s more of a knowledge thing than a masculinity thing. I’ve never had a car with or properly learned to drive a stick — just fooled around with a friend’s car once (mainly out of curiosity and just wanting to experience it) and managed to drive it, and am confident I could i...
R- it’s hard to explain as there isn’t any kind of formulae and that’s probably why it works, the writing process is usually a lot of back and forth and at certain points just sitting down and working on stuff together and at certain points just going away and doing your own thi...
One of the GCSE poems I teach, ‘My Father Would Not Show Us’ by Ingrid de Kok is a poem about an (adult) child processing the death of her father, processing her mixed feelings of frustration as to why he didn’t let her know he was dying and grief of what life could have been...
It’s a relief to know that much of what we have intuitively shared as effective practice for teachers is based on what science is now giving us firm evidence for. Schools need to understand that the teenage brain is not built for sitting in rows learning facts. ...