February | 2022 | garyhollingsbee.com

Education

Indicators of an Effective Teacher?

Digging through one of my boxes of stuff, I found this copy of Elizabeth Perrott’s 1982 Effective Teaching, a book I’d bought and intended to read but had put away for the future. It’s a weirdly prescient book: outling many of the approaches to teaching that are currently being promoted in schools. According to the book, Perrott was the director of the International Microteaching Unit at the University of Lancaster. I guess the term “microteaching” captures the general pedagogical approach to classroom practice in schools at the moment. I’m particularly taken by the question of what are the indicators of…

Providence issue 5, regular cover

Bought the regular cover for issue 5 of Providence. Jacen Burrows’ magnificent covers of buildings from the Mythos. Empty, eerie architecture. Characters in themselves. I’ve already got issue 5 as a dreamscape variant but much prefer these regular covers.

David Morley

My half-term treat to myself is a couple of collections by the poet David Morley. I heard Jo Clement read one of on the radio the other day and I was captivated. (I also ordered Clement’s first collection which is published later in the year.)