EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Teaching Poetry for A Level English Literature
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £265 per place
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Location - EMC, SE1 8QW
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Duration - 10-3.30pm
Poetry in AL Literature presents students with a range of different kinds of demands: close focus on a single poet, work on paired or grouped texts, comparative work and unseen analysis. In this course you will be offered approaches to engage students’ interest and enthusiasm, help them make the transition from GCSE to A Level and develop high-level responses to poetry. It is suitable for teachers on all specifications, with an emphasis on practical classroom approaches that can be adapted for particular texts or specification requirements.
What will the course cover?
- Strategies to engage students and develop their confidence and expertise
- Developing an agenda for poetry, for you and your students
- A focus on improving responses to the writer’s craft
- Ways of helping students to think and write comparatively and range across poems
- Ways of using creative and re-creative approaches as ways into analytical study
- Ways of helping students to deal well with unseen texts in exam conditions.
How to get to the English and Media Centre, 44 Webber Street, London, SE1 8QW
Once you are on Webber Street, look out for the big gates and a sign saying CLPE. You’ll see EMC’s sign to the right of the entrance.
National Rail:
- Waterloo and Waterloo East are within 10 minutes walk
- London Blackfriars is a 10-15 minutes walk
Underground:
- Southwark on the Jubilee Line
- Waterloo on the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City and Northern Lines
Buses:
- The following bus routes go close to Webber Street: 1, 139, 168, 171, 172, 344
A fantastic, engaging day, reinvigorating my enthusiasm for teaching poetry. Many practical tips and activities I can use tomorrow. Elizabeth Dunning-Young Queen’s School, Teaching Poetry at A Level (2017)
Full of endlessly useful information and strategies. Marc Jones, College Sevigne, Teaching Poetry at A Level (2017)
So informative; so much to take back to the department. Feel so much more prepared and confident to teach poetry now. Emma Close, Kew House School,Teaching Poetry at A Level (2018)
Emma Barker
Emma Barker worked as an English teacher for many years in London schools, leading each of the key stages before becoming Head of English. At the EMC since 2016, she ran the English with media/drama PGCE course until 2023 and continues to teach the English side of EMC's Media with English PGCE with Goldsmiths, as well as working on student conferences and A Level courses at the Centre
Lucy Webster
Lucy Webster has been an advisory teacher at EMC since 1999. She is co-editor of emagazine, runs courses and writes and edits publications, specialising in A Level English Literature. Recent publications include Doing Close Reading, study guides to A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, King Lear, Atonement and Mrs Dalloway and Yes We Can: EMC Approaches to Rhetoric – A Practical Guide for 11-14. She edited The Literature Reader and co-edited What Matters in English Teaching.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Thursday 12th November or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course must be booked online.
- To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts:
- UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing)
- UK Educator Admin (purchasing)
- UK Teacher – Home Address Only
- UK Private Individual
- Overseas
- If you have a UK Educator Standard account you will not be able to book the course. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book courses at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
- Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
- Add the number of places you need.
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- When the course has reached viable numbers, this will be indicated on the course page on the website and you may wish to book your transport.
Cancellations and amendments
- We require at least five working days’ notice of cancellation, otherwise your school will be invoiced for the full amount. However, if you are not able to attend and a colleague would like to take your place, this can be arranged at any time. (Please email [email protected] with the name and email address of the teacher.)
- We will indicate on the website when the course has reached viable numbers and will definitely run unless there are circumstances beyond our reasonable control. If you have booked your place before this threshold has been reached, we will email you to let you know. Before booking travel you may wish to wait until it has been confirmed on the website or by email that the course has reached viable numbers.
- If a course does have to be cancelled you will not be charged for the course and will receive a refund if you paid in advance. However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the course which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us.
- Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.
