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The intention of these workbooks is to replace the traditional blank notebook with the key learning already populated; learning objectives, key concept and vocabulary. This knowledge is important enough that it is accurate within their notes and divergence across the class only compounds divergence of attainment and progress. By having it hard-coded into the very…
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Reader-Response theory has now been developed into a lesson within the Literature curriculum. Like all critical theory, they are tough, but the aim of DoE is to make them accessible to everyone.
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Much of the work in DisciplineOfEnglish.co.uk is centered around a critical perspective that requires more reading, more tracing, more historical contexts, more structural connections. Whether it be the factual defining characteristics, the historicity of sign systems, or the cultural theories which have all now been detailed extensively here – where ever you turn within this…
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Literacy skills precede the body of knowledge in Language and Literature – so what is the ‘structure’ to be learnt in Literacy, that aids comprehension, and taxonomically precedes structure in those other disciplines? Here’s how I do it.
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The function and purpose of assessing at KS3 is not always clearly outlined, because the questions that need answering are hard. But if they are answered, some of the barriers to good marking can be lifted. It’s a conceptual problem that is worth investing in.
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The technology of AI facilitated learning is not in the future, it’s in the present. Schools and teachers need to catch up with this, before the technology is ruled by third party and private interests.
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After years of following the core department curriculum of inferential reading, I’m moving towards the teaching of key vocabulary – a critical language that is far removed from ‘this implies / this suggests’.
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Teachers need to position themselves as the people writing manuals for complex machines, controlling the language that matches the user, not as people creating an environment conducive to discovery learning.
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Words don’t have meanings, they get meanings. Structuralism is a difficult and abstract concept to understand, but there’s a meme that absolutely nails this.
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The way we perceive Literature is an important gatekeeper to analysing Literature. Metacognition is an important step that departments rarely formalise into actual lessons. But it can be quite simple, and a couple of jokes can really elevate the plinth from which we stand and view the field.
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