Mrs. O'Neill's Blog

I am marking research papers this weekend. Or at least I am trying to, in between peaceful moments reflecting (see above) and frantic moment...

A Laughing Matter My British Literature classes have been studying the eighteenth century drama ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ and talking about th...

Imagine you sign up for a job where your boss gives you feedback every week on how well you are doing. At first you feel you are doing w...

My son sent me a link to this article by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker. After wondering if this was his idea (my son, not Malcolm Gladw...

Well, I did it. I found Assessment for Learning in America. At 7.30 am on Wednesday of last week, I found myself in Plymouth, Minnesota...

This week a student surprised me. He wrote that he actually enjoyed writing on the topic I had given him and ‘would not mind writing some mo...

I am generally happier with teaching vocabulary in context, but sometimes I find it necessary to give students a list of words that they wil...