English CPD

Victoria Walker is an assistant headteacher and English teacher. She shares some ideas for how best to introduce Gothic literature to your students, at any key stage.

Getting students to 'own' the value of Shakespeare as part of their cultural capital is not necessarily straightforward. Francis Gilbert, journalist and PGCE and MA course leader, suggests how you can familiarise your students with Shakespeare's language.

Speech and language experts Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne share their advice for empowering students with knowledge of prefixes and suffixes as part of their vocabulary learning.

David Didau – trainer, consultant, writer and former English teacher – questions the received wisdom that all marking is good marking and suggests how to make your feedback to students worthwhile. He explores the underlying reasons why marking is essential to progress and suggests ideas for how you can provide clarity, and increase students’ effort and aspirations.

Shakespeare's language often presents a barrier to students' learning. In this suggested approach, author and PGCE course leader Francis Gilbert outlines how modern translations can provide a useful way in.