Presenter:
Joanne Manning The English classroom should be a hive of activity packed with thinking, sharing and enjoying language and literature. This course offers English teachers a number of methods for inspiring learning in their students. Teachers will learn practices for generating regular reading patterns and discussion about texts using strategy-based reading activities. We will also explore the Harvard model of 'cultures of thinking' in the English classroom to set up highly effective routines for thinking about texts. Further, teachers will consider the benefits of offering students choice in their learning according to learning style and level of challenge. Such choice maintains the interest and enthusiasm of students.
Teachers will take home a number of scaffolds and resources ready to use or share with their colleagues.
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  | There was so much accessible information with a grat array of resources for classroom use. |
| Lots of practical information and great resources. Good mix of teaching and activities. Learned so many new ways to help students engage with texts. |
| Great strategies for students to think for themselves. |
  | Very good content, with well prepared material. Dr Manning was very knowledgable. |
| Some good explicit strategies for teaching reading and comprehension. Resources and scaffolds require more engagement as they all look alike. |
| A lot to digest. Confusing amount of paper. Electronic resources would have helped/ saved a few trees. |
| Perhaps covered too much superficially. Some very good ideas especially on teaching reading. |
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| Excellent, for questioning strategies and engagement of questioning process in the english classroom. |
| Perhaps colour the booklets, print each section in a different colour as it was quite complicated to keep up with the presenter. |
| Very dense. Lots of practical material - philosophies, strategies, resources - which can be adopted to improve teaching. |
| Well resourced, good ideas and practical approaches to English teaching. |
| Excellent pace and general overview of strategies - maybe showing film clips. of the strategies being used in class would be a value-added element. |
| Very informative and well presented. A bit heavy during part 2 (models of thinking), but packet provides excellent examples and the graphic organisers are very helpful. Thank you for an interesting day of learning. |
| Many good ideas and activities, and helpful information. |
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| Some fantastic activities to engage different learners, especially low ability level students. |
| i liked the resources. I knew about the thinking routines and liked the way they were taught. I think they are to easy for higher learners. Ideas presented on higher end were good but too late int the day. |
