Tom has been teaching for nearly twenty years, having worked in schools in South London, Bangkok, Penang and Lagos. He is currently an Assistant Head Teacher in Croydon. He is the author of Explicit English Teaching and has contributed chapters to The ResearchEd Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction, The ResearchEd Guide to Literacy and Teaching WalkThrus. He has advised the DfE, Ofsted and some of the UK's biggest academy chains and provides CPD across the country on cognitive science, explicit instruction and curriculum design.
