Christopher Walker

In my previous article, I looked at recruitment from the perspective of a director of studies (DoS). Hopefully you got the job you were after – which means you now ought to give some consideration to the relationship you want to build with your new DoS. It goes without saying that you will want to teach to the best of your ability – and so I won’t say anything about that. I’ll instead be looking at some of the other aspects involved in the relationship between teacher and DoS, my hope being that by telling you about these problem areas,...

It is not difficult to teach a good writing lesson, but before you go into the classroom to teach one, it’s worth considering what we mean by the expression ‘writing lesson’. For some, a writing lesson is a quiet lesson in which the students spend the duration pushing their pencils across the page, forcing out three hundred words in something approximating an essay or an article. But is that a writing lesson – or a writing test masquerading as a lesson? So, what is a writing lesson? A writing lesson is one in which the target output will be written. But...

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