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Jan 12, 2025 | 
passing-it-on.com | Carol Atherton
In Reading Lessons, I write about the shadow colleagues who share my classroom and help with my lessons: the novelists and poets and playwrights without whom I couldn’t do my job. This week, with Year Eight, it’s been Seamus Heaney. Lovely Seamus: I think he’d have been a good person to work with, slightly irreverent but also deeply wise, with a well-honed sense of the difference between the things worth cherishing and the merely faddish. He’d have a secret biscuit stash, too.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Carol Atherton |Yvonne Williams
Advanced search English in Education Research Journal of the National Association for the Teaching of English Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/04250494.2024.2398901?needAccess=true Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s). Log in via your institution Access...
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
teachwire.net | David Voisin |Carol Atherton
SecondaryEnglish This curated collection of effective and engaging Animal Farm resources will help you teach this cautionary novel… by Teachwire DOWNLOAD A FREE RESOURCE! Animal Farm GCSE – Discuss a key chapter SecondaryEnglish If you’re looking for Animal Farm GCSE teaching resources, you’re in the right place.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
teachwire.net | Carol Atherton |Helen Mears |David Voisin
SecondaryEnglish 21st century technologies are shaping how all of us read and write, says David Voisin – so should we reconsider how we definine ‘literacy’? by How detrimental has digital technology been to literacy? Historically, of course, new technologies have often been blamed for corrupting and debasing language, despite not actually doing so.
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May 24, 2024 | 
teachwire.net | Carol Atherton |Phil Mathe
Secondary We can find pedagogical inspiration in the unlikeliest of places, insists Phil Mathe – including multicellular organisms beneath the waves… by Sea sponges are the most quirky of ocean life forms. Like that laid-back friend you love but can’t help chuckling at, they simply float around, soaking up the ‘vibes’ while everyone else gets themselves caught up in underwater drama. However, sea sponges are also fascinating for how they feed.
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May 23, 2024 | 
teachwire.net | Carol Atherton |Colin Foster
Secondary The questions students ask us can sometimes betray deeper, underlying knowledge gaps that we can’t afford to ignore, writes Colin Foster… by Often, when a student is stuck and asks a question, I think that the question they’re asking is more advanced than the question they should be asking. This isn’t their fault. They’ll typically be asking about a problem they’re experiencing at that moment, which is a perfectly natural thing to do. The teacher’s job is a subtle one.
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May 23, 2024 | 
teachwire.net | Helen Mears |David Voisin |Carol Atherton
SecondaryEnglish Our teaching of literature should leverage teens’ love of narrative, says Carol Atherton – but we don’t need to see what they’re reading… by When I started teaching English 28 years ago, teachers had considerably more freedom of choice over the texts we taught – especially at GCSE, owing to the coursework component in place at the time. The ways in which students could respond to those texts were also much more wide-ranging compared to now.
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May 23, 2024 | 
teachwire.net | Helen Mears |David Voisin |Carol Atherton
SecondaryEnglish Our teaching of literature should leverage teens’ love of narrative, says Carol Atherton – but we don’t need to see what they’re reading… by When I started teaching English Literature 28 years ago, teachers had considerably more freedom of choice over the texts we taught. This was especially the case at GCSE, owing to the coursework component in place at the time.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
schoolsweek.co.uk | Carol Atherton
Review by Haili Hughes Senior lecturer, University of Sunderland and Director of education, IRIS Connect 21 Apr 2024, 5:00 Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter By Carol Atherton More from this theme Recent articles Over the past ten years, there has been an explosion of teachers writing books, shedding light on how they use research in their own classrooms or sharing great ideas for strategies.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
passing-it-on.com | Carol Atherton
Sometimes, I think it was all Robyn Penrose’s fault that I became an English teacher. That’s probably a massive oversimplification, because there were all sorts of people – and events – that led to me turning up at Manchester Metropolitan University in September 1995 for the first day of the PGCE course. You could blame my mum, for instance, for teaching me to read; you could blame my own A level English teacher for helping me to see that doing English at university was a real possibility.
