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Teaching and learning

Leading CPD practitioners including Mary Myatt, Kathrine Mortimore, Sue Cowley and David Didau offer their advice on the key topics and evidence-based research in teaching and learning to help you to grow and develop as a teacher.

  • Shakespeare as part of our cultural capital

    Shakespeare as part of our cultural capital

    Published: 13/01/2014

    Getting students to 'own' the value of Shakespeare as part of their cultural capital is not necessarily straightforward. Francis Gilbert, journalist and PGCE and MA course leader, suggests how you can familiarise your students with Shakespeare's language.

    By: Francis Gilbert
    Other at Upper Shirley High
  • Translating Shakespeare: how to familiarise students with his language

    Translating Shakespeare: how to familiarise students with his language

    Published: 10/02/2014

    Shakespeare's language often presents a barrier to students' learning. In this suggested approach, author and PGCE course leader Francis Gilbert outlines how modern translations can provide a useful way in.

    By: Francis Gilbert
    Other at Upper Shirley High
  • The importance of narrative

    The importance of narrative

    Published: 02/02/2016

    Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne are speech, language and communication specialists. In this article, they explore the role of narrative in literacy and in the wider world.

    By: Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne
    Other at Upper Shirley High
  • Tackling unseen poetry: from the creative to the critical

    Tackling unseen poetry: from the creative to the critical

    Published: 12/05/2016

    Francis Gilbert lectures in PGCE Secondary English at Goldsmiths, and is a former English teacher, writer and journalist. He explores how writing poetry can inform and enhance students’ experiences of encountering poems for the first time.

    By: Francis Gilbert
    Other at Upper Shirley High
  • Using technology in the geography classroom

    Using technology in the geography classroom

    Published: 08/09/2020

    Alan Parkinson is a Head of geography and textbook writer. Here he shares his top 20 tips for using technology effectively in the geography classroom.

    By: Alan Parkinson
    Other at Upper Shirley High