Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Teaching News

Teaching News

Brilliant Blogger of the Week: Bill Lord

Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST

Our second Brilliant Blogger is Bill Lord. Please keep suggesting brilliant blogs for future posts – we have already had lots of great suggestions!

Bill is the headteacher of Long Sutton Primary School in South Lincolnshire, having previously worked in an advisory role for four years. His blog can be found at LordLit.com.

The blog is predominantly concerned with teaching and learning in Primary schools. Many of the blog posts are focussed on literacy, reading and technology although there are several posts about mathematics and cross curricular work. There are subsections on curriculum ideas and reading.

I asked Bill why he decided to start blogging…

“There were two key reasons; firstly I try to take up a new hobby or try to learn how to do something each year and I decided that I wanted to learn how to run my own blog. The second reason was that as an advisor working across Yorkshire and Humber I was doing quite a lot of work which I wanted to be able to share with people before I went to their school. The blog was a great way of doing this which meant that I spent the time in school efficiently looking at how we could use the ideas rather than introducing them.”

 

Bill Lord - LordLit.com

 

The response to Bill’s blog has been very positive and he aims to continue posting ideas and thoughts on the site, even though he is currently finding it harder to find time to blog as a new headteacher.

Bill’s fantastic World War II resources page took 6 weeks to write and should be called ‘everything you wanted to put in your planning for WWII but didn’t have time to find’. Bill’s posts about @giraffeclass (who are a Year 1 class who tweet regularly) are also really interesting. Bill worked with the class as part of action research at a time when very few classes were tweeting, as he wanted to see if there was any impact on the children’s attitudes towards learning.

Bill has also started a wonderful resource called the World of Books map, that he kindly allowed me to feature on Teaching Ideas, showing the main locations of events in a range of children’s books.

Read Bill’s blog here and follow him on Twitter too.