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

AVAILABLE APRIL 2020

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