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Your best option? Be Mr Motivator
When students choose your subject merely because they dislike it slightly less than another, it may be necessary to make changes to your teaching practice to ensure they remain engaged, finds Ben Wilcox
15 June 2018
Since when did complete control over learning become a taboo?
Direct instruction is often seen as a dry, didactic way of teaching, but Ben Wilcox argues that this unfairly maligned approach is long overdue rehabilitation
29 September 2017
Be an enabler, not a dictator
Being head of teaching and learning brings with it significant power that needs to be tempered with a strong sense of responsibility, says Ben Wilcox
2 June 2017