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The article discusses the author's job as police youth strategy manager in Essex, England. The author helped in the development of a youth strategy to enhance the interaction between the police and all young people. He also visit schools and youth group conversation to tackle what the young people are trying to accomplish and ask them what they want. Moreover, he works once in a week at the Youth Justice Board to revise the final warning scheme which replaced police cautioning for the youth.

The article discusses the author's experiences during the four-year period that she made her novel entitled "Wicked! A Tale of Two Schools," a story about an unlikely partnership of a wildly successful boarding school and a fast failing urban comprehensive school. She recalls that she had written the story with plotlines and characters inspired by some teachers and students that she had met. She also sought several author's styles and ideas related to the subject of her novel.

The article offers information on the research suggests that schools ditching their textbooks for tablets and laptops. It mentions a meta-analysis on the effects of reading media on reading comprehension draws upon a meta-analysis that included more than 54 studies, involving 171,055 participants from age 10 to adulthood; and also mentions the paper advantage is consistent across informational texts and for a mix of informational or narrative texts.

The author discusses her favorite childhood teacher. She talks about her experiences with her drama instructor Even Mohacson and the encouragement she gave her. She says Mohacson understood how important drama was for children to develop confidence and channel their energies. She credits Mohacson with getting her started on her way to a successful professional acting career.

The article discusses the author's experience of teaching students of tenth standard during the football World Cup 2006. The students are supposed to prepare for their business studies exam but most of them bunked classes to watch the World Cup. The author observed that it is an obvious clash of values between home and school which demonstrates that parents and pupils have the same view of education. The students have considered watching football more important than preparing for their business studies exam. The author gave students a short past exam paper on finance, and she observed that they knew very little about their subject.

The article discusses journalist and broadcaster Anna Raeburn's experiences of her school days. When in school, she used to love her lessons, her school and most of her teachers. It's hard to single out one of many wonderful women teachers who had taught her at Kirby secondary grammar school for girls in Middlesbrough, England in the late 1950s. But, Miss Jean Travis, a Highland Scot, with rosy cheeks, grey eyes and black hair with grey in it and whose classes were conducted entirely in French was her best teacher.

The article discusses the author's experience of teaching in Qatar. There are many ups and downs to teaching among the shifting sands of Qatar. The author says that boys and girls are taught in separate classes in the school where he is working. The author's lunchtime duty is on the field where the school boys race around playing football. The author is grateful because his duty is for 15 minutes in a temperature of 38 degrees celsius. The second coursework evening is almost the same as the first.

The article discusses the experiences of the author's grammar school life in Bradford, England. The author was taught English by Leslie Shepherd, a young man from Cambridge, England. The author got to know some of the favourite writers through Shepherd. The author was a voracious reader right from childhood. Bradford grammar school was one of the best schools in Great Britain. The author was keen on acting at school and took part in school productions. Also, the author was not good at everything.

The article discusses the author's experiences of being a teacher. He relates his class about the speech of Martin Luther King where his student misses their discussion who tackles about a murder of a black teenager. She relates their class visit to church and asked questions to a vicar who is a woman.

The article discusses the author's experience about her first day at school. She points out that teaching is a fabulous job who stimulates subject matter, great colleagues, amazing holidays. She said that she has established on the relentless turning hamster wheel on her life as a working mother. She often thinks back on the moment of epiphany on her first inset day.

The article discusses the experiences of the comedian Vic Reeves about his English teacher at Eastbourne secondary school in County Durham, England. He emphasizes that his lessons with his teacher merged with his interest in words, arts and music. His teacher was part of the jigsaw puzzle that has made who he is now.

The article narrates the author's experience of being an actor which he owed to his teachers at Washwood Heath comprehensive school in Birmingham, England. He never thought he would success in the acting field if not from his teachers who recognized his talent when he performed and did a comedy speech in school plays. His teachers encouraged him to get the National Youth Theatre summer course to develop his talent. Later on, he found himself performing in theaters as a famous actor.

The article discusses the author's experiences of teaching pupils how to tackle waste and recycling. The author took on the role of facilitator rather than the conventional teacher leader role. The author started the topic through a business and enterprise day where students built lifesize recycling super heroes out of rubbish. The students were taught the Matrix which consists of 42 activities linked to Bloom's taxonomy. Activities, equated with knowledge and understanding, were worth two points. After adding up to a minimum of 18 points, pupils were free to select activities. While completing their final lesson, pupils assessed completed tasks.

The article discusses the author's experience of how he faces the special measure of Burlington Danes school in London, England. The author took over as head of the school in April 2005. The author says that three inspectors have anatomised his school. The staff and students should be treated better than the word "special measures." After sometime, the inspectors visited again. The author says that Burlington Danes school is no longer subject to special measures and now it is deemed to be providing a satisfactory standard of education for its students.

The article discusses the author's views on education. The author sets up a volunteer Mastermind league in his small village school. The author says that a child who came from the 11-plus class in her previous school responded badly to more open atmosphere. The author's school debates differences in the way children learn but lapse too easily into polarity. Human beings are multi-capable and it is life that shapes performance. A research confirms that 50 percent of educational outcomes still reflect home background while the rest comes from quality of teaching.

The article discusses the author's experiences with her teacher Maggie Hayes, a well-meaning woman and an unmarried schoolmistress at Saint Luke's elementary school. She recalls that her classes with Maggie was in a classroom subdivided with a curtain to separate them from the village children who were having classes as well. She confirmed that they were disgraceful and annoying students. But she, later on, realized the goodness and forbearance of Maggie.

The article discusses the author's experiences as a wife who has a stay-at-home husband. She confirms that she is supportive and fair-minded to his husband. However, she finds the swapping gender role that she and her husband have to be complex. She compares the longer time that her husband stay with their children to that of what she shares with them. When she stays with the kids, she keeps the house tidy but when her husband stays with them, the house gets totally disordered.

The article discusses the author's initiative in starting a samba band in a junior school. She asserted that she got motivated to form the band while on a holiday in Cuba. She had enrolled at a local college for evening classes in Latin percussion. She had initiated a few samba rhythm exercises into her normal warm-up routine for Year 5 pupils.

The article discusses the author's experience in a attending a course at Laval Université in Quebec City. He asserted that he finds it enjoyable on the opportunity to exchange ideas with other French teachers. He emphasized that visiting the city gives him a fascinating insight into a French-speaking region outside Europe. He stressed the importance to raise the awareness of pupils that French is a worldwide language.

The article relates the author's experience in teaching food technology for children. She said that she was conferred with challenge on how to point out their pupils in the right nutritional direction. She relates how she prepared her instructional materials by surfing the Internet and newspaper cuttings on fats, aspartame and additives.

The article relates the author's views on how to get the teacher's attention in the classroom setting. He points out that no teacher can ignore a shy little wave or hesitant hand raising. He adds that those pupils who only put their hands up occasionally will always be encouraged by being picked. He concludes that in the world of show-offs, it is the hesitant pupil who wins the attention.

The article discusses the author's experience of preparing his year 9 art and design project. He has been trying an interactive gallery for assessment at key stage 3. His project was based on the Mexican Day of the Dead festival which took six months to realize. The author, for his project, had gathered images of pupils' sculptures on a digital camera. He had invited pupils and had given them a summative grade which had been simply added as text boxes into each pupil's PowerPoint towards the end of the project.

The article discusses the author's experience of being a parent-helper at Jesse Gray Primary School in Nottingham, England. There in school, when they were working on poems, he has witnessed one of the pivotal incidents in the education of his pupils, including his son. His pupils had able to write a new verse for the poem with the rhythm and rhyme scheme of the original that was presented to them.

The article discusses the author's experience of an incident in a pantomime theater involving his son. He narrates that his family occasionally watched productions to share to his children the joy of live performance. Alfie, his son, enlisted his name to go up the stage and chat with the performers and bring back goodies that are handed out to the children. That year, Alfie was chosen. As a parent, the author rehearsed with his son the answers to the questions he will be asked on stage.

The article relates the author's experience of preparing for surprise Christmas presents to the parents in Great Britain. He was surprised about how children's work has change in his very eyes. He notice that their Christmas presents has transformed between school and home. He also thinks that the kids are living right through the twenty first century.

The article discusses the author's experience with his English teacher. He describes the physical attributes of his teacher whose age is hard to pinpoint. His teacher did not use sarcasm but instead played it straight down the line. The author discusses the maxim taught by his English teacher. He describes the writing he made that received a B mark from his teacher.

The article relates the experiences of Robert Lindsay about his beat teacher, John Lally. Lindsay, who won a best actor awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1990, advocates the importance of higher education. He points out that he has a kind of inferiority complex about not having a university education.

The article discusses the author's experience on his seven weeks of training as an army. He said that he will never forget one particular moment during their machine-gun drill, when Sergeant Maxey MacDonald hit him on the back of the head because he could not do it right. The ability of the machine gun directly affects the safety of fellow soldiers and he understood fully why he was whacked by his officer with the machine-gun, but he did not appreciate it at the time.

Offers tips on teaching narrative structures to children. Need to encourage students at all levels to challenge their views on traditional narrative structures; Use of the films as stimulus for writing; Functions of characters in texts.

The article explores several pointers on how to manage school drama during Christmas season including the application of narration, use of music, and cameo roles in Great Britain. It notes that narration allows a clear story for the audience to follow. It mentions that music enables spectators to break up the action. Moreover, cameo appearances of teaching staff can inspire student performers.

The article discusses one British teachers' best and worst lesson plan. Her best lesson involved using food to elicit the proper grammatical responses from her students. The students, with the visual aid of the food, were able to answer her questions correctly in the past tense. Her worst lesson was attempting to teach learning disabled students math. She says she didn't pay enough attention to them and one of her students threw a pair of scissors at her backside.

The author discusses his experience training to be a British football referee. He talks about the difficulty in learning all the rules the referees must employ and successfully use during a match. He talks to veteran referees who say they've been called a "cheat" even by their own sons. He discusses the intricacies of the game and interpretations of the rules.

The article discusses the author's experience of learning difficulties in a special school. The author has spent years complaining about the school building. No one thought of giving teachers a room for parents to meet in. The teachers need a medical suite. A special school should have electric doors but even the toilets in the school are not big enough to hoist a pupil out of their wheelchair and on to the loo. The teachers need a building that is much more open to community, parents and other schools.

The article discusses the author's experience of life in a special school. The author tends to be positive and has a can-do attitude at her school. The children that the author and other teachers teach face huge difficulties to overcome blindness, deafness, physical disabilities and autism, as well as severe learning difficulties and their parents are always living in difficult circumstances. The author says that teachers should keep a positive attitude to overcome the problems. Also, the author points out that too much thinking positive can blind people to what can be bettered.

The article discusses the author's experiences of working as an interim headteacher. The author decided to work as an interim headteacher six years ago. He claims that the work of an interim headteacher is very exciting one. He loves the varieties of the job, and is not willing to go back and work as a substantive headteacher. Most of his interim postings have been in primary schools which have been facing some problems. Such postings are very demanding, but the author is delighted over the satisfaction that comes from serving schools during a difficult time. The more the author does for the cause of such schools, the more willing he becomes to continue his assignments.

In the article, the author narrates her experiences of going on a weekend residential revision course with pupils who were at the borderline of receiving C and D grades. The experience bears a humorous tone. The author presented her idea of a weekend residential revision course at Quron Hall before the pupils. Some of pupils expressed their inabilities to go for the course as they were not permitted by their mothers for the same. However, a few pretty girls and a couple of boys agreed for the course. The first day at Quron Hall went well, however the night-time got the author a bit perplexed as a boy tried to get intimate with the author.

The article discusses the author's experiences of being a headteacher in a special school in England. She relates that being a deputy head, she feels that she not one is not one of the girls anymore. She wonders how other deputies handle the same situation. She points out that the thought of the responsibility, the accountability, and the potential to affect people's lives is frightening. She said that being a headteacher is a such a hard job.

The article discusses the author's experience of being a part-time lecturer and chairman of governors at a primary school in Great Britain. She went off to college and do her usual teaching every Monday and then rush back to school to check out the pre-inspection report with the head. He saw two young ladies who have a screaming match in which questions each other's moral rectitude. All that remains for her to do now is to inform the other governors about the results and teach her own classes.

The article discusses the author's experience in visiting Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, England. She commented on the way Abbot Hall Art Gallery deputy director Cherrie Trelogan handled the children. She talked about how the children became open-minded and flexible because there is no expected result. She also discussed how the children will remember and talk about the their experience.

The article narrates the author's life as a police officer in Great Britain. When on duty, he regarded his work as unpredictable with what event would he encounter. He had saved a woman who got stuck in a ditch, dealt with fatal road accidents, and came across a child who was taken cared by social services because of having an addict mother. Although, he had been criticized by some individuals, he still aimed to make a difference in people's lives.

The article relates an author's experience as a victim of bribery and cajole. The incident took place in Ghana where rattan suitable for making baskets like Botswanabasket can be found. In their desperate search for someone who knew how to make baskets as beautiful as Botswanas, somebody led them astray to Navrongo, which is a forest on the edge of Sahara.

The article presents the author's experience in his class where he asked his students to write five good and five evil things respectively. Students struggled to mention their choices and instantly he heard a voice from a student saying that he was not able to think of anything. The author provided him some examples and the student pretended to understand the exercise. He mentioned a TV character to be an evil who used to play the good characters on the screen. When the teacher tried to find out the reason, the beard of the character was the reason for which the student considered him to be an evil. On the next day, the teacher shaved off his beard.

The article presents the author's experience of his style of reading a book in classroom. He used to feel like playing the role of a teacher in a movie, rather than doing it as his job. He always tried to choose a book with no other motive for reading it other than that it was a great book. According to him one benefit of reading such kind of book to a class was the access it gives pupils who couldn't read that independently. He always tried to get as many copies into the classroom as possible, because it provides the opportunity to the pupils to follow their teacher's words.

The article discusses the author's views on the most successful GCSE English speaking and listening assignment she has ever done. With a list of ten contestants, groups of four producers had to come up for a Celebrity Big Brother which they then had to present to the rest of the class and the author. Students were asked to consider who they could afford, who would do it and which celebrities would produce great television. Arguments started on who would work well with who and why. To create the most drama in the house, the most successful groups linked specific tasks to certain celebrity contestants.

The article discusses the author's views on how he feels after getting the first job of a technology teacher. The author has experienced many situations, he has never gone weak at the knees but the day he was offered his first teaching job, he managed to do that. The author says that it was the thought that he would be working in a school with technology status, something that he had hoped for. People feel nervous when they stand in front of at least twenty hormonal and rebellious teenagers. The biggest thing for the author is getting the first post.

The article discusses the author's experience of building a wind garden for a school project. The wind garden was inspired by the book "The Wind Garden." The garden was dug by staff and a willow frame built round its edge. The children made letters of the alphabet generally their initials and others made moons, stars and other shapes. Copper tubes were made by older children through which the wind could blow. All the students threaded the clay and copper items to hang on the frame. Also, pupils germinated seeds which will be planted in the garden.

The article discusses the author's views on her education. The author is the best known for her television roles in "The Thin Blue Line and The Bill." The author is obliged to her teachers at Accrington and Rossendale, Lancashire, England. The college's building was very beautiful but it was demolished for some ridiculous housing thing. The author is used to remember Martin Cosgrif, an acting teacher at the college. The author ranks Cosgrif as the best acting teacher in Lancashire. Cosgrif had helped so many people pass their exams and get into drama school.

The article discusses the author's experience in the conference of mainstream teachers. In the very first place, she recalls having been overdressed for the event. However, she found out several lessons during the conference including the differences of their job descriptions. She also realized the lack of government support for the training of teachers for students who have special educational needs.

The article discusses the author's experiences in teaching at a school in Ontario. He had realized that reaching the age of thirty one has its uses when he had asked his sociology class about ageing. He had remembered how he met his colleague who has been honored for having his first child. He has been in shock when he has received a letter from his pension plan which tells when he can retire.

The article discusses the author's experience during his visit in Burren, Ireland. Her aim of visiting the place was to explore the treasures of its limestone pavements. She agreed with the surveyor from Cromwell company that the flat, fissured rock landscape is poor in soil and streams. The author had seen the settlers' old method of livestock farming and enjoyed her stay at the hotel were she stayed overlooking nothing but nature. INSET: Win VisitBritain guidebooks.