Member Blog
Our member blogs capture a series of approaches from English teachers and academics to support members in developing their approach in the classroom. Departmental teams can print, share and discuss these articles as subject CPD.
Do you have a particular approach that you would like to share? Perhaps a particular area of subject knowledge or your experience of teaching a specific text or genre? Maybe a perspective piece for fellow Heads of Department colleagues? We would love to hear from you and share with the community. Read our blog guidance before getting in touch.
Telling the Story: the English subject report
Zoe Enser is the Lead HMI Secondary English. Before joining Ofsted, she spent 20 years as a classroom teacher, head of English and Drama,...
Building ‘Thinking Ratio’ to impact the quality of ‘Participation Ratio’
Matt Lynch is a teacher of English at a school in the North West. He has been a teacher for 28 years, was a Head of Faculty for 10 years,...
If Curriculum is the Car, is Literacy the Key?
Laura is a teacher of English and former Head of Department at a school on the North East Coast of England. For the past 3 years, she has...
Checking for understanding over time: a case study
Miriam Hussain is a Director and Teacher of English within a Trust in the West Midlands. She is also a Curriculum Associate and Ambassador...
Rereading point of view in stories
Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University and Programme Director for the MA English...
The Importance of Subject Specific Mentoring for English ECTs
By Haili Hughes With 16 years teaching experience and her current university role in ITE delivering the ECF and NPQs, Haili has a thorough...
Developing subject knowledge as a departmental team | Nikki Carlin
Our blog post for this newsletter comes from Nikki Carlin. She is Director of English at her school. She is also the founder of...
Never Let Me Go as a modern text choice | Davina Canham
Davina Canham has taught for almost twenty years, both in the UK and abroad. Following her role as Lead Practitioner, she is now Head of...
Author interview: Hetty Steele ‘How to get a 9 in Shakespeare’
Regional Advocate Hetty Steele @HettyLSteele kindly agreed to answer questions about her book, How to get a 9 in Shakespeare,...
‘Make thick my blood’: Female Blood in Macbeth
Hetty Hughes joined the profession is 2015 as an English and Theatre Studies teacher and has experience as a Teaching and Learning...
The Handmaid’s Tale: Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics
Whenever we read a text, our initial engagement is on a linguistic level – how language choices and patterns shape meaning. By no means...