Emily Barber

Senior Education Consultant - English - Teacher - Teaching & Learning - KS5 - KS4 - KS3 - Mentoring / Coaching ITT - ECT

[David Didau @DavidDidau]

We love to say we’re building a ‘love of reading’. The evidence suggests we’re doing no such thing. Pleasure doesn’t lead to fluent reading; fluency makes pleasure possible. Reading for pleasure should be an outcome, not a curricular aim. Trying to teach enjoyment is missing the point.
Link below...

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

👏

[GCSE MACBETH @GCSE_Macbeth]

Dear students,

We hope you continue to make literature and theatre part of your life in the future,

regardless of which of nine (9) ability bands the percentile represented by your total marks is eventually placed into.

[Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart]

Calling #teachers! Looking for #poetry inspiration ahead of #NationalPoetryDay? Enjoy FOR FREE this excellent @NATEfeed Teaching English poetry special, including articles by the #PoetryByHeart team.
https://t.co/GA2FmsH6ee

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

@maximjkelly Omg!!!! 🥹😭

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

@FunkyPedagogy @CarltonBolling @joannecrossley Oooooh any good tips for new approaches?

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

Let’s put the text back at the heart of our literature teaching. Get rid of ‘context’ sheets, generalised info docs about a time period, YouTube videos summarising the plot and - instead - teach using the text. Nothing else. Time to immerse our students into fictional worlds…

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

So great to see Oracy so strongly on the education agenda again! Tragic that the value of talk was so downgraded for so many years! This will mean so much to 1000s & 1000s of young people!

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

Such a pleasure to be part of the important conversation

#GCSEreform #Timeforchange

Hosted by @EnglishAssoc facilitated by @The_Globe

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

@bw_english Stunning!

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

@FunkyPedagogy Yes. Yes. Yes 👏

[Tes magazine @tes]

BREAKING | Some big #Ofsted news to start the new school year, as the DfE announces that single-word ‘headline’ inspection grades have been scrapped with immediate effect.

Find all the key details here ⬇️ (free to read)

https://t.co/313fECCEuQ

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

@SPryke2 Hear hear

[Women's Day @womensday]

Happy #InternationalWomensDay💜 Today we celebrate women's achievements & #InspireInclusion across our communities. On #IWD2024 we elevate the focus on #womensequality to help forge a #genderequal world 🌎Thanks everyone everywhere for supporting #women 🙏🏾 https://t.co/CE787vsOiR

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

🤍 #International_Womens_Day

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

@butler_lizzie 😂 agree….hope you’re ok Lizzie! ❤️

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

Intervention.

What do you think?

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

@Comcultgirl I’ll be getting a copy of that one then! Thanks for sharing 😊

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

@Comcultgirl Oh amazing. Very eye-opening actually. I wonder how often schools actually ask the students rather than just assume it’s helping…

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

…or find time to breathe 😔

[Emily Barber @MsEmilyBrandon]

All comments welcome!