Mindshift…

Happy New Year to you all. I know that people from all over the UK and some teachers in different parts of Europe read this blog, and you will therefore have experienced many different things during December and the early part of January already. We hope here in the north of England that the recent […]

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Lessons from abroad

Our subject association ALL and the Association for Science Education play a big part in the lives of members of my family.  Whilst reading the Education in Science magazine in September (Number 261) the article Learning lessons from Finland and Estonia by Dr Neil McIntyre caught my attention. Neil gained a chemistry PhD at St. Andrews […]

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How is life without levels?

Last week I was leading a session at York university entitled native speaker orientation. I was trying to explain to the students from France, Germany and Spain who have just started their teacher training here the differences in the various types of schools in the UK.  Of course, this involved looking at how we have […]

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