What Matters in English Teaching Collected Blogs and Other Writing – Barbara Bleiman (Print)

Where English Allsorts and Spotlight on Literacy both offer practical classroom ideas, bringing together key EMC approaches to teaching English, What Matters in English Teaching has a different purpose. Addressed to teachers, it gives an informed, principled – sometimes unashamedly polemical – account of the most important issues in English teaching today, reflecting on and arguing for a particular vision of the subject – its pedagogies, practices and curriculum content.

Drawing and expanding on Barbara Bleiman’s well read and highly influential blogs, this collection addresses the key issues and concerns facing English teachers, including:

• Versions of English – What Is It?
• Thinking Big – Big Picture English
• Group Work and Dialogic Learning
• Teaching the Class Novel
• What Do We Mean by Knowledge in English?
• Vocabulary
• Creativity and Criticality – Reading as a Writer, Writing as a Reader
• What’s Important in Teaching Poetry
• The Responsive English Teacher