Teaching activities

Diving Bell

Aug 12, 20193 min read

Teacher blog: A better way of marking

The Pattern of Mistakes (POMs) marking strategy identifies the most common mistakes and prioritizes the order of tackling them.

Diving Bell

Jul 24, 20193 min read

Teacher blog: Trials and Revelations

Bands 3 and 4 are solidly made up of well-meaning kids who think that memorizing ten quotes and telling you where polysyndeton can be found

Diving Bell

Jul 20, 20193 min read

Student blog: Giving context in your introduction

After you’ve given a straight answer to the question in your thesis statement (if you’re confused about this, read the last blogpost...

Diving Bell

Jul 14, 20193 min read

Student blog: WTF is a thesis statement anyway?

Are your essays terrible? It's probably because of one of these problems: 1. You don't understand what an essay actually is - I mean, WTF...

Diving Bell

Jul 10, 20193 min read

Teacher blog: Using model answers

Sadly, most students aren't really receptive to model answers until after the Trials. Most Year 12s will try to use what they already...

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