An excellent range of speakers at the NLT seminar in York today. Presenters focused on the importance of offering a more expansive notion of reading in schools and reading interventions that meet children where they are rather than where we would like them to be. @literacy-trust.bsky.social
Our Reading Ambassadors at Sheffield Hallam have set up an Instagram page to share their recommendations for children’s literature. Please follow them to support this important work!
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This summer, the NATE Conference comes to University of Manchester on Tuesday 7th July. Join us to explore curriculum change, refresh your practice and reconnect with why English matters. Get 25% off with the code EARLYBIRD if you book before 31st March.
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Hello teachers.
Today I recorded 35 poetry workshops for you to use with your classes. 10 are for Early Years, 25 for KS 1,2 and Year 7. These are to go with the 11 that are already up on our channel.
Thanks to
@ApplesAndSnakes
for support.
I don't think booklets enable responsive teaching and learning.
I never teach the same lesson twice in exactly the same way because all classes respond differently, which is one joy of (English) teaching. There are many other issues too, such as teacher agency.
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✅A momentous return to the world of Chaos Walking
The exclusive @waterstones.bsky.social edition of Piper at the Gates of Dusk is available to pre-order now!
SOMETHING IS COMING
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Almost 40% of teachers leave the profession within the first four years of returning from maternity leave, and up to 20% leave within the first year.
Better maternity transition support could retain thousands of teachers each year, says @mtptproject.bsky.social
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Huge congratulations to the PGCE secondary English students, who graduated from Sheffield Hallam last week!
Wednesday's fabulous Harold Rosen Lecture by Carol Atherton reminded us of the transformative power of authentic, dialogic teaching, says NATE chair Mick Connell. The lecture can be viewed after reading Mick's article: t.co/bP8n58Jntp
I’ve seen you perform many times in my capacity as a teacher, but now have my own primary age kids and really looking forward to bringing them to see you as part of your 80th celebration tour next year. We’re Sheffield based and wondering if there might be dates nearby 🤞
We're so sorry to hear of the death of Aidan Chambers. Not only did he write wonderful YA novels, he also gave us one of the great books on reading with young people - Tell Me: Children Reading + Talk uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tell...
This from on Oracy and 4 interconnected aspects. Many thanks to Oracy Cambridge & James Mannion for suggesting that I write a guest blog! oracycambridge.org/oracy-four-i...
A quick reverie about #Botheredness
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Please share (if you like it)😃
Fab interview with Teresa Cremin outlining key elements of reading and writing for pleasure pedagogy.
'You can be socially motivated as a reader or writer, and I think we underestimate that in school.'
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Last year, lots of us were talking about #oracy. Here’s a quick retrospective:
Oracy isn’t new. A useful discussion of what oracy means and why it matters to children’s learning and personal development is here, via our ‘Speaking Volumes’ papers:
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The wonderful Rhythmical Mike came to speak to our PGCE English cohort this morning. He performed his spoken word poetry and demonstrated a range of approaches to encourage and inspire young people to write poetry. Such a brilliant end to the term! #edusky #rhythmicalmike
'Reform GCSE English as a priority ... [including] re-balancing the focus on both written and spoken English with explicit teaching of, and recognition for, spoken language knowledge and skills': Pearson's submission to the ongoing Curriculum & Assessment Review: www.pearson.com/content/dam/...
Not sure why, but tonight I looked back at a piece I wrote some 20 or more years ago - a tribute to English teachers. It's all a bit 'Dead Poets Society', I suppose, but also, perhaps, a reminder of why English as a subject matters. And why its teachers do. www.geoffbarton.co.uk/files/englis...
So worrying to conceive of a future where arts and humanities education is limited to a privileged few who can afford to engage in learning for its own sake.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
i have secured funding to run a summer school for secondary school teachers on language and social in/justice. it'll be over 3 days and involve teachers engaging with linguistic justice theory and applying this to practice. more details soon but feel free to express interest!💜
I felt I had to reply to Amanda Spielman on X & the article in The Times on text choices, the canon & relatability. Both offered simplistic, throwaway ideas about choices, showing lack of understanding both of contemporary literature & of what develops literary knowledge in young people.
Caution, tentativeness, sensitivity to context & judgement should have been built in by those heavily promoting their use. Suggesting that teachers misunderstood the original idea or weren't 'faithful' to it isn't fair. Here's me in 2017 on knowledge organisers! englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/an-agen...
A lot is justified in the name of exam results. It’s okay to control every moment of a child’s day, if the school can show they get excellent exam results. It’s okay for parents to be complaining, and children to be protesting, if the school can show improving exam results. /1
I’d like to see an acknowledgment (in the CCF and ECF, for example) that cognitive science approaches capture a particular aspect of learning and not the whole picture. This might help to open up the dialogue about what else might be significant.
A superbly, clear, analytical, and characteristically constructive submission to the #CurriculumandAssessment review from m'colls @ascl-uk.bsky.social. A particular hat-tip to @tommiddlehurst.bsky.social.
We really have to do something about #TheForgottenThird: www.ascl.org.uk/News/Our-new...
Wonderful vision for English teaching from one of the @engmediacentre.bsky.social Associate Teachers that we included in our column for the latest Teaching English @thecockerill.bsky.social
I spent today in Manchester at a brilliant focus group event centred around Reimagining Teacher Education. It’s the next stage of a British Academy/Leverhulme funded project run by Viv Ellis (Monash) & @iancushing.bsky.social (MMU).
Delighted to have been part of the Reimagining Teacher Education focus group. Thank you @iancushing.bsky.social and Viv Ellis for organising such a thought-provoking and affirmative meeting of minds 😊
Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here:
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
