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Essays about learning, educating, writing,and thinking in myths. Chat as a transformative pedagogy.
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Anatomy of why I am weird (opens the original)
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How did I become so weird?Thanks for reading Trickster Teaching! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.When I write, which I do often since I&
‘Do’ smile before Christmas... (opens the original)
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I’m no guru. I have been teaching for 15 years though, and I’ve worked with children in lots of other capacities, such as social care respite holidays, mentoring projects and as an online mythology educator to over 1,000 students.As a new school year begins, everybody begins dusting off the old advice they themselves once received, some of which was wrong at the time, and remains wrong now.I wanted to get down my thoughts on what I think teachers should remember as a new year begins - whether yo
Why might teachers fear spontaneity? (opens the original)
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It was my final observation as a trainee teacher. I had planned every element of the lesson for my university tutor, and left a paper-plan for him on a table. I had a small version of it in my pocket. The powerpoint was slick and well-rehearsed. The script was written, and I knew which questions I wanted to ask the children.The tutor arrived, the lesson began, the children listened well having been prepped in advance that this was an important observation. The tutor was nodding.Then the helicopt
Making informal talk do the hard work (opens the original)
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I value chat. I respect it. More now than 10 years ago, and more still each day.As a teacher, I now see chat as the place where students begin to share fragments of their actual selves. It’s where they bridge their school life with their life ‘out there’. And it’s where they generate ideas, and test them out on people. Children’s chat is where they tend to let their least restricted and most expensive notions free. It’s the heart of their creative writing projects. It’s the roots of their poetry
When writing becomes accidental remembering (opens the original)
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