Useful teaching ideas...

http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/nov/21/best-english-lesson-descriptive-writing

Reviewing a blog that might be useful in your teaching:

I took quite a while researching blogs for this task. I was trying to find something that would really inspire myself and others who would hopefully read it.
I finally found this post in the 'Teaching Network' of The Guardian. The words really struck home with me personally because lots of young pupils in my teaching environment (boys in particular),
struggle with descriptive writing. In this particular post English teacher Matt James uses rugby and the stadium environment as an example of how an individual can put their feelings down on paper. I think this is really a fantastic way of linking together boys underachievement, that he touches upon in this blog, and out of school interests such as rugby in this case. For me personally, I live in a country and work in a school where rugby, in a sense, could be part of the curriculum!

Matt uses this to his advantage for a teaching idea, which he realises may not suit every boy/girl in his class, however after the first lesson he does learn to adapt to his surroundings. Realising he cannot take his entire class to experience the magic of the national stadium which he describes vividly as being part of his childhood memories, just like myself. Matt brings the stadium to the classroom through music and television, hoping the children can try to envisage and get that magical feeling that every proud Welshman gets as soon as he takes a step through those Millennium gates....

A great blog, and teaching idea that I thoroughly enjoyed reading.

Oliver