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Tales From The Chalkface: Gifted – That’s Me!

September 3, 2014 Chris Riley 0 Comments

A big sigh of relief – the holidays are here. I’m doing a jolly dance around a pile of presents

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Tales From The Chalkface: Walking Away

June 15, 2014September 3, 2014 Chris Riley 0 Comments

Summer days make me more inclined to take a stroll home rather than jump on the tram, so last week,

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Tales From The Chalkface: My Best Lesson

May 15, 2014September 3, 2014 Chris Riley 0 Comments

How do you know? In whose opinion? What’s the measure? Here’s an account (very one sided) of the best lesson

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Tales From The Chalkface: Porn Puppets

April 15, 2014September 3, 2014 Chris Riley 0 Comments

Got your attention? That’s what I watched in school this week. Let me explain: my oldest students performed a piece

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Tales From The Chalkface: Passing The Tests (Again!)

March 15, 2014September 3, 2014 Chris Riley 0 Comments

It’s mad March and I have a list of deadlines so long I dare not look at it. Mostly I’m

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Tales From The Chalkface: Another Day…

February 15, 2014September 3, 2014 Chris Riley 0 Comments

I’m a lark not an owl, so if I have marking to do I’m up by 6, rather than finishing

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Tales From The Chalkface: Conformity Rules – OK?

January 15, 2014September 3, 2014 Chris Riley 0 Comments

One of the delights of working in a language school rather than a regular school is never having to impose

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Tales From The Chalkface: What Would Father Christmas Think?

December 15, 2013September 3, 2014 Chris Riley 0 Comments

The run up to Christmas is like wading through a morass of ‘to do’ lists: the usual marking, preparing for

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Tales from the Chalkface: The Holidays

August 21, 2013 Chris Riley 0 Comments

My view of the summer break has changed as my teaching journey has lengthened. At first, as a new teacher, six weeks seemed far too much. By week four, I was secretly bored and aching to get back to the classroom, though too embarrassed to admit it for fear of seeming a sad case…

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Tales from the Chalkface: Meetings

May 9, 2013 Chris Riley 2 Comments

While students don’t get to enjoy (or is that endure?) too many meetings, unless you count lessons, we teachers meet in various groups with the aim of oiling the wheels of our educational bus and either speeding it on its way to academic improvement…

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