The Professional Teacher
Support for teaching professionals in the classroom and beyondDeveloping wider skills - cultural capital
12th September 2016
After last week's successful blog series on getting to know your students, I've decided that this week's mini-series will focus on teaching strategies that can help to develop transferable / wider skills in our students, regardless of our subject. This first blog post takes a quick look at increasing the "cultural capital" of our students.
Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.
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