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Five classroom ideas linked to specially collated poems Read more
How do we decide what knowledge to teach – 'knowledge organisers' or 'agendas'? Read more
Barbara Bleiman injects some sense into the debate about using emojis in the classroom, by outlining three practical and useful lesson ideas that draw on these... Read more
The writing that emerged from an EMC training day about what 'radicalism for our times' might look like in English teaching. Read more
Suggestions from the EMC team for you and your students Read more
Barbara Bleiman explores the work of American educationalist Arthur Applebee and asks why so little is known about his work in the UK. Read more
Ideas for some really wide reading. Read more
The most recent work from ‘It’s Good to Talk’ – the different kinds of writing that emerged and some questions raised about assessment, post-levels. Read more
Richard Long on bringing blogging to the English classroom Read more
Barbara Bleiman reflects on the most recent classroom observations for EMC’s research project ‘It’s Good to Talk – Developing Group Work in English. Read more
Teaching context is tricky. How do you provide students with social and historical information without turning English into a History lesson? The answer lies, this... Read more
More findings from our group work project Read more
