Monthly Archives: December 2009

learning curve

I’m learning – always, always learning – to be more aware of why students ask for help understanding tasks during workshops. Sometimes it’s simple: I’ve explained it badly; brain-to-mouth failure. However, I’ve also realised that – sometimes – students aren’t asking for clarification (what are we supposed to be doing?) but for reassurance (am I

On “genuinely good causes”

It took a little while to work out why this post at Conservative Home nettled me. It wasn’t the concept of “Left Watch,” for all its gesturing to ideological purity. It wasn’t the blanket criticism of state support of charities as “welfare,” as if we don’t get anything from those groups in return. It wasn’t

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My writing process is nothing if not thrillingly honest.