Hosts @MrsMahons @MissBanksEng @cv_lockwood @MrsHarrisP16 are committed to providing English Literature, Language + Media Studies resources for Welsh Students.
A reminder that this academic year, millions of teachers did something that most have never done before, weren’t trained for and often didn’t have the resources to do, and yet they did it - despite being ridiculously worried every day. #teaching#teacher
All teachers should be explicitly teaching pupils how to improve their speaking & listening skills. Read this brilliant report on importance of Oracy in curriculum in Wales https://t.co/YHJ66lLArT
A little thread on hamartia. 🧵
The word hamartia comes from the Greek verb harmatanō, which means 'to miss the target'.
In the Iliad (e.g. 5.287), the verb is used when a warrior misses someone with a thrown object, e.g. a spear or stone.
#Impacttips Research shows us that depth of learning is dependent on the depth of thinking during the learning task. Make your pupils think hard.
✍drawing, sorting, ranking, reworking all support deep thinking.
Why is oracy so important?
All of the sketchnotes we create underpin our bespoke, research-informed school support.
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The Myth of Multitasking - switching rapidly between tasks slows progress & leads to incomplete or inaccurate memory encoding.
It can make you feel tired too! Plz RT.
🤔 What's changing?
🤔 What are Centre-Determined Grades?
🤔 When will your results be issued?
These are just a few of the questions answered in our new Student Summary focusing on this year's assessments: https://t.co/8SBep8aCTF
We are excited to introduce you to Research Reflections. These videos and documents will share emerging research linked to our professional learning offer and encourage you to reflect on and interrogate the research.
☝️This visual summary of the play ‘Macbeth’ includes links to YouTube videos on all of the key scenes! 📼@Team_English1#TeamEnglish
Download 👉 https://t.co/JKHxvHj38D
Have you seen this @EnglishWales team? As part of our PL this term join us for our drop in webinar about moving forward with oracy and Voice 21 work. Schools will be sharing their approaches so far - a great chance to collaborate. See you there! @CSCJES @CSC_Literacy
Here’s the link https://t.co/OX0rGtitiO for Christopher Shaw’s super #LitdriveCPD Autumn session on ‘Jane Eyre’ - watch now, or use with English teams next week! #Litdrive@Team_English1.
Seven sophisticated snippets of terminology for writing about Macbeth- thanks to those that messaged and commented earlier. I'm going to add another seven in two weeks once they've mastered these.