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Exploring the role of traditional rhymes in the primary and early years classroom Join best-selling author Robert Lacey and educational psychologist and children’s literature specialist Nicholas Tucker in conversation with Kathryn Brereton, an English adviser and primary specialist. We’ll use Lacey’s newly published Nursery Rhymes as a launching-off point as we consider the benefits of…
Explore a brand-new FREE resource for students aged 11-16 Designed and created by a collaborative team of historians, artists, and musicians, Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows is a brand-new FREE educational resource consisting of a graphic novel and a digital soundscape intended for students aged 11-16. Drawing upon Billy Waters’ lived experiences, our 20-page…
Chair: Elizabeth Draper Clare Feeney and Ian Cushing will share with us concrete examples of their collaboration around linguistic prejudice and critical language awareness in schools. Clare and Ian will explore how they began (and sustain) their collaboration, demonstrating how collaboration between schools and universities can lead to positive impacts on academic work, teaching practice,…
Collaborating and empowering post-16 teachers to lead the discussion on the GCSE resit curriculum, in Further Education settings Gathering Voices #FE aims to put teachers’ voices and expertise at the heart of the conversation to lead the discussion on the discipline of English. This teach meet series will allow for both voices from those delivering…
Exploring the literary theoretical coordinates of GCSE and A Level English Literature to support your teaching Join Dr Joe Barber FEA (Manchester Metropolitan University) to explore his recent research which explores the extent to which the teaching and assessment of 11-19 English literature is underpinned by the coordinates of specific literary theories and approaches to…
Chaired by Christopher Ohge (Digital Humanities Research Hub / IES, SAS) Living with Machines was both a research project and a bold proposal for a new research paradigm. In this ground-breaking partnership between The Alan Turing Institute, the British Library, and Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Exeter, Queen Mary University of London, and King’s College…
Getting to grips with Shakespeare using AI tools The issues connected with pupils’ use and abuse of generative AI for writing has been well documented. The recent National Literacy Trust survey, found that 39.6% of 13-18 year olds used AI for writing activities, however only 23.2% used it for reading tasks. What benefits might AI…
An introduction to Let’s Think in English, a cognitive acceleration programme devised at King’s College London. This session is particularly relevant to school teachers and leaders KS1-4 and colleagues in FE/HE interested in how English can develop disciplined reasoning through enjoyable and inclusive collaborative challenge. Let’s Think in English (LTE) is a teaching programme which…
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the ‘Everything to Everybody’ Project was a pioneering collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council which revived Birmingham’s Shakespeare Memorial Library – the first great Shakespeare library in the world – with people and communities across the City which owns it, mounting 88 events throughout…