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Mark Goodrich

My writing on education, particularly looking at my experiences in primary education as a male career-changer.

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Is “over-teaching” phonics really the main problem with early reading in the USA?

The recent article in Education Next, The Cost of Over-Teaching Phonics by Liana Loewus has rightly attracted a lot of attention in the USA and “over-teaching” of phonics has become a hot topic there with experts such as Mark Seidenberg als...

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A New Year's Resolution for Teachers: Quit X

Imprint on a table in Saffron Coffee shop in Luang Prabang where much of this was written - seemed appropriate!

Try this brief thought experiment. Imagine if Teacher Tapp had polled teachers on social media use 5 years ago and asked the fo...

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What Japan can teach us about running schools

I have been fascinated by Japan since I first went there in the 1990s when taking a 2-week holiday there was regarded as deeply eccentric. These days, everyone seems to visiting as I discovered on my family holiday this year.1 Coping with h...

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Blast from the past

[This is a blog I wrote 4½ years ago for Men Teach Primary which I am putting up here mainly so I don’t lose it! I remembered that I had written it when somebody was asking me about retraining as a teacher after another career…. The Men Tea...

a year ago

A great new book on teaching reading

Earlier this year, Christopher Such published his second book on Primary Reading. As I have mentioned before, his previous book was my top recommendation for ECTs starting out in primary. So, would Primary Reading Simplified topple The Art...

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