| SUPPORTING BOY WRITERS (free download) |
FREE EMC DOWNLOADABLE REPORTS/BOOKS – ENGLISH
A series of reports commissioned by external agencies such as the QCA [now QCDA], TDA, Learning and Skills Network and the DfES [now DCFS]. |
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An initial dissemination report into ways of supporting underachieving boys at KS3. From an EMC project with Mayfield, Seven Kings and Wanstead Schools |
In January 2008 the English and Media Centre was funded by Teacher Development Agency (TDA) to set up a short CPD project for teachers on ‘Struggling Boy Writers’, with the aim of ‘establishing a small network of teachers to research what constitutes effective and manageable personalised learning with specific reference to low achieving boys in years 7 and 8’.
The project was born out of EMC’s sense that this group of pupils presented particular challenges for teachers in an educational climate that seemed to support a personalised learning agenda but whose dominant mode of communication was in terms of whole class routines and procedures. The skills of sensitive fine-tuning of the teaching of writing, to meet the needs of individuals with difficulties, seemed to have been eroded. We wanted to work with a group of teachers who would be interested in taking a case study approach that would allow them to explore ways of developing their own practice and thinking about the teaching of writing in the light of these tensions. A pair of teachers from three Redbridge schools agreed to participate. This publication is the outcome of their work.
The reports in this publication provide fascinating accounts of six teachers’ work with twelve boys and their ways of going about work with struggling writers. We hope that their approaches as well as the processes of trialling and reflecting that they describe might be useful to other teachers who want to make a difference to this important group of students.
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