by Jenn Linning | Oct 7, 2019 | Teachers
Our brand new custom assignment builder allows teachers to create their own assignments for students – for homework, classwork or revision – from a range of over 75,000 questions. How does it work? Using their Get My Grades account, teachers can log in...
by Jenn Linning | Oct 3, 2019 | English, Students
Finding it difficult to know where to start when you are asked to analyse language in poetry? Perhaps you are studying for your English Literature GCSE exam? Let us break it down for you with 5 easy steps: 1. Focus on what you know. Remember that poets are often...
by Jenn Linning | Dec 22, 2018 | Teachers, Tutors
In this blog series, we have explored ways in which we can develop students’ spoken answers so that, in turn, we can help them to improve their written ones. Strategies such as probing, restating, rehearsing, scaffolding, and mapping can help to push students to the...
by Jenn Linning | Dec 19, 2018 | Teachers, Tutors
Now that we have explored various different strategies for developing student answers, it’s time to use our own ‘rehearsal’ strategy and plan exactly how we are going to help students make the leap between one-sentence spoken responses and the complex, detailed...
by Jenn Linning | Dec 11, 2018 | Teachers, Tutors
In this blog series so far, we have talked about how to develop students’ spoken answers, which in turn should help to improve their written ones. Strategies such as probing, restating, and rehearsing can help to push students to the next level of understanding and...
