Teaching English
Shows to support English teachers - a day's worth of high-quality CPD content for your ears
Transition writing: keeping writing great
Hosted by Sean Mackay
Sean talks to Shelley Francis, an English teacher and Literacy Coordinator based in North Wales. She has been working with her feeder primary schools to create a framework for the teaching and assessment of writing across the transition.
December 2023
English teaching in postcolonial Australia
Hosted by Christopher Vowles
Christopher discusses the English curriculum in Australia with Jowen Hillyer, covering topics from virtual schools to the Aboriginal experience of education.
July 2023
Approaches to teaching writing
Hosted by Tom Rogers
Tom Rogers is joined by Samantha Evans, Elaine Mcnally and Kate Pretsell to discuss the approaches they take to the teaching of writing in their schools.
September 2022
How to build a reading culture in your school
Hosted by Sean Mackay
Sean talks to Alice Visser-Furay about how to build a reading culture in your school
September 2023
The Writing Book
Hosted by Tom Hopkins Burke
In partnership with Bloomsbury Education, Tom is joined by Zoë and Tim Paramour to talk about The Writing Book. From fronted adverbials to synonyms for “said”, and covering all the tropes and traits from “making the reader want to read on” to “they all lived happily ever after”, Zoë and Tim demystify the writing process and share the granular detail and building blocks required to develop young writers.
July 2023
Recommended Novels to Teach at KS3
Hosted by Ritchie Slack
Ritchie Slack is joined by Tamlyn, a current Head of English in a secondary school in Cambridgeshire, to discuss and explore which novels they would recommend studying and reading to KS3 students.
August 2023
