Tag: teaching

  • What do teachers want from an author visit?

    What do teachers want from a school visit? I’ve been visiting schools for years now, telling stories, sharing my writing strategies, showing how to draw things and, I hope, inspiring the odd child here and there. I’ve never been a teacher. I’ve not trained as a teacher. In staff room conversations, it’s clear that many…

  • I’m in the Guardian today – how to make money on YouTube!

    I’m in the Guardian newspaper today, in an article about earning money on YouTube. My YouTube friends and I are amazed at how people just don’t get YouTube yet. The article starts off, yet again, with how Charlie Bit My Finger earned £100,000. Well that is an unverified figure that goes around. I think it’s…

  • Want to improve writing standards? Let them read books!

    You wouldn’t expect a child to make a movie if they had never watched TV or visited the cinema. You’d never expect a child to make something if they’d never seen the tools being used or had never encountered the raw materials before, so why, oh why do we expect children to be able to…