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OAT English curriculum project

Feb 26, 2023 | Category: English

Since January 2020 I've been working for Omiston Academies Trust as their Senior Lead for English. Over that time I and the amazing team of lead practitioners I lead have created what we think is a fa...

#English #curriculum

How to read creatively: noticing in English

Oct 03, 2020 | Category: English

… languages recognized, not as the means of contemporary communication but as investments in thought and records of perceptions and analogical understandings; literatures recognized as the contemplati...

#English #Literature #Reading #Michael Oakeshott #Andrew Bennett #Nicholas Royce #Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Epistemology of English

Feb 07, 2019 | Category: English

For some time now I've been thinking about how epistemology* - how knowledge is accumulated and divvied up - in English as an academic discipline. While I'm not at all sure that I've accomplished anyt...

#English #epistemology #Natalie Haynes #Robert Eaglestone

Why English is not a 'skills based' subject

Apr 27, 2018 | Category: Featured

The idea that English is a skills based subject has become axiomatic. Most English teachers of my acquaintance accept it unquestioningly, as did I until a few years ago. How do we know English is skil...

#English #Daisy Christodoulou

Are 'closed book' examinations a bad idea?

Apr 06, 2017 | Category: English

Changes to the GCSE English Literature specifications are, apparently, starting to bite. As well as abandoning the modular approach to assessment in which students sat 2 separate modular exams and com...

#English #Literature #learning by heart

What are they learning?

Feb 26, 2016 | Category: learning

Learning is never neutral. Although I have no empirical evidence, I'm pretty sure that it's rare indeed for children - or indeed anyone - to learn nothing in a given situation. My contention is that c...

#English

researchED English & Literacy Conference

Jul 01, 2015 | Category: English

A few months ago I asked Tom Bennett if he'd be up for rubberstamping some sort of rEDx project (like TEDx but with brains) devoted to exploring the intersection between education research and English...

#English #Tom Bennett #researchED #Ray Land

The GCSE English "fiasco" - Why shouldn't all have prizes?

Sep 02, 2012 | Category: English

Lots of folk have had lots to say about what went on behind the scenes at the various exam boards this summer and throughout it all I've largely kept my peace. Having absorbed the various arguments an...

#English #GCSEs #Gove #literacy #grade inflation

Is teaching cheating?

Nov 26, 2012 | Category: assessment

[caption id="attachment_2179" align="alignnone" width="259"] The Teachmobile[/caption]Today I was sent this:[slideshare id=15358374&sc=no]It purports to be a briefing sheet used by an AQA advisor to j...

#English #AQA #GCSE fiasco

What makes a perfect English lesson?

Nov 27, 2011 | Category: English

[caption id="attachment_718" align="alignnone" width="300"] Click me[/caption]Is there such a thing as the perfect English lesson? Well, no, probably not. At least, not that I’m aware of. There is, yo...

#Jackie Beere #English #popplet #Samuel Beckett