Associates
Phil Beadle Phil Beadle is an English teacher in a school in Croydon. He has a career average of about 85% A - C passes in English Language GCSE, though this is likely to go down this year. His mass market book for parents 'Could do Better' was notably less mass market than the publishers intended, and is currently being translated into Chinese and Latvian!
He has written a column, 'On Teaching' for the Gu...
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Kevin Ducker Kevin Ducker is an outstanding Advanced Skills Teacher in English and Media Studies and has worked in various inner-city London schools. He was educated at Plaistow Grammar School in the east end of London where he gained a C grade in GCE English Language and half a GCE in Spoken English.
He left London soon after, joined the army and was promptly posted back to London.
In the mid-90s he att...
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Gillian Evans Gillian Evans is author of Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain. The book caused a controversy when it was published in 2006 because it brought the ongoing significance of social class to the foreground of debate at a time when the politics of class had become something of a taboo subject in Britain. Continuing to influence debate about the contemporary position of the w...
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Francis Gilbert Francis Gilbert was educated at Sussex University, Cambridge University and completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University Of East Anglia, studying under Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. Since qualifying as an English and Drama teacher in the early 1990s, he has taught in a variety of comprehensives in London. He gave up teaching in 1998, but resumed his teaching career in 2001; shortly a...
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Jonny Heeley "Amazing", "inspirational" and "outstanding" are just a few phrases that have been used to describe this modern-day Johnny Ball. One viewer of his Teachers' TV maths masterclasses even went so far as to describe him as "More inspirational than Marcus de Sautoy!"
This maths teacher's maths teacher is a former Secondary Teacher of the Year for the North and is currently Head of department at Raw...
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John Murphy "I'm six-foot, three; bald and look like Shrek."
How many head-teachers would introduce themselves to the students of their new school with a sentence like this? Probably none. But then, how many head-teachers have John Murphy's irresistible charisma? Perhaps one.
John Murphy is one of the country's highest profile specialists in transforming schools in challenging circumstances: appearing o...
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Andy Salmon Andy Salmon and Thinkalink are on a mission to get the world linking. Linking is a fun and easy way to remember things employing the underused learning-tool, mnemonics. Learning by rote is a tad dull and not foolproof whereby linking is....as long as the link resonates of course! For example, to commit to memory that the disease, scurvy, results from a lack of Vitamin C, you just need to remember...
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