Improving Economic Writing at A-Level Part 1: Sentence Level Activities
Earlier this week I ran a session at the Bank of England Teacher Conference on improving writing in economics A-level. This is a write-up of that session, partly so the delegates have it all in one place, and partly so anyone who couldn't make it can pinch the bits that are useful. All of the worksheets are available in the download at the end of the article. I'll be honest here and say that I haven't proofread this, but I knew that if I waited until I had it, it would be for
Two tools to make using news articles in the classroom a bit easier
At the Bank of England Teacher Conference this I gave a talk on improving economic writing. I’ve got a much more detailed blog post coming with the full content of that presentation as I know quite a few people couldn’t make it on the day due to the weather. Even though the talk was on writing, we talked a bit about reading and I promised extra info on two tools. The first, I flagged in the talk itself; the other came up while I was chatting to a couple of people afterwards.
A couple of years of the Class Read: what I've learned
[Admission: I actually wrote most of this a year ago and never got around to posting it.] A few years ago I wrote about an experiment I was just starting: getting a whole class to read the same non-fiction book together, a "Class Read". You can find that original post here, and it lays out where I started and why. I'm pleased to say the experiment stuck. This is also one of my Classroom Systems; you can take a look at the others here. I've packaged up all the resources that I