Tag Archives: teaching

#WQWWC: #1 Light or Lights

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Michael

The path to understanding is there; it was just a matter of seeing it. The light to awareness was shining, staring him in the face, but it wasn’t always easy to see the one thing that shone a light on … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 51 – Vanishing Impossibility

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Michael

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. During my working career, I was confronted as many teachers were, with finding ways to engage our students. During a ten-year period in a very working-class part of … Continue reading →

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Sunday Writing Prompt “Reform”

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Michael

In my experience in education most reform comes under the guise of educational outcomes, but in reality, from a political point of view, it’s more to do with economics than education. Its old adage of getting people to do more … Continue reading →

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May 18: Flash Fiction Challenge – Wisdom

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Michael

May 18, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a wise story. It can be about wisdom, expressing wisdom or advice for turning 50! It can be a wise-cracking story, too. Go where wisdom leads you.   … Continue reading →

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SoCS June 18/16 – “Class”

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Michael

The class in question had the reputation of being the worst class in the school. They were rowdy, rude, repugnant, never interested in any lesson and every teacher cringed at the thought of taking the class last lesson on a … Continue reading →

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#Maydays Prompt – Lessons learnt – Senior English

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Michael

Today’s theme is about learning and teaching. My students sit up when I enter I think to see what I am wearing Rather than the teaching about to take place. English in the senior years, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, The Romantics, … Continue reading →

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2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 27 – Take Off – 9C

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Michael

For today’s prompt, write a take off poem.   Monday morning dawns 9C is awaiting me I feel the need to take the day off. Its not hard to ring and say Sorry I’m ill Be back tomorrow. 9C are … Continue reading →

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2016 April PAD Challenge: Day 18 – In the Staffroom

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Michael

For today’s prompt, write an office poem. It’s the hustle bustle The urgency of every decision Piles of requests and orders Referrals from over worked staff The endless paperwork Rising stress and trauma Of deadlines and student reports. I breathe … Continue reading →

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Prompt Night Poem – The Clarinet Choir

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Michael

The Music Master rose to his feet Announced the band would now play The assembled assembly shuffled in their seats. There was an air of dread within me, In other places this meant Five minutes, seeming a lifetime Where a … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver # 16: Ideal Job (the road not taken) – The Careers Advisor.

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Michael

He surveyed the assembling class and gulped back an innate fear of the classroom and thought: I have to make this work. He was on his last chance. In the back of his mind were the words of the Principal: … Continue reading →

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