Ancient wonders: old-school textbooks you’ll want to track down
by This is the first of five posts about long-forgotten Latin and Greek coursebooks which I discovered while rifling through the bargain boxes of the Hellenic …
Teaching at the JACT Latin Summer School 2019: what did I learn?
by Tell any acquaintance that you’re spending two weeks in July teaching Latin to teenagers and they’ll likely look at you a bit funny. You can …
Four ways to introduce the Aeneid
Where do you begin with a text so gargantuan? How do you hook a teenage audience? Below are four keys that I have used to …
How to prepare for teaching new texts?
You don’t mean working over the summer, do you? I know- time is a teacher’s currency and once we’ve tasted freedom each July it can …
Top 10… lesser-known sites of Roman Britain
by “In our present age, with its passion for reality and urge to be ever on the move, no one who is interested in Romano-British archaeology …
What does a HoD need from a new teacher?
by My answer to this is an answer, and I speak from quite a privileged standpoint: my school is Classics-friendly, offering Latin, Greek and Class Civ …
What does a new teacher need from their HoD?
I’m a big believer in the mantra ‘recruit good people and let them get on with it’. If you give people- and pupils- trust and …
Are you a classicist or a Classics teacher?
This question I aired at a Keynote conference in January 2016. Think back to your last year of university… How do undergraduates operate? Compound adjectives …
What happens after five years teaching Classics?
It was my late uncle- an English teacher and Deputy Head- who at the outset of my career told me it takes five years to …