English Teaching Methodologies.

Heydeldel

thefasteriwalk wrote: »

Or the manga version. I find the number of teenagers who are reading manga and watching anime quite uplifting. I'm a serious comic nerd, though.

Heydeldel, it's a great learning curve, though. I was way too soft in my first school and took serious ****e for the year - yes, a whole year! Ughh! I came out determined that it was never gonna happen to me again and it hasn't. You'll come out all the better because of this experience.

Oh yes, a steep learning curve alright! Glad I can move on start fresh somewhere to be honest. God help the next batch of kids that get me

The manga suggestion is interesting. I have an MA from NCAD ( theoretical not practical i'm afraid) but would love to make my lessons more visual. I must look up some manga. I remember only too well from my own school years how off putting dense Shakespearean text can be.

Has anyone ever done a cross -curricular between Art and English? Could be fun for transitions years to make their own comic/graphic novel.

Is there much cross - curricular stuff happening?

thefasteriwalk

Yeah, it's something I try to incorporate. Comics are one of the categories in the PISA literacy test. They're using both sides of their brains. I've had a TY group do comic strips alright. We made films too. TY is great - so many options.

Heydeldel

Hi,

So I'm job hunting again after the short contract finished. I feel I should be doing some prep in preparation for the next job I get.

I have a yearly scheme of work ( broad outline of topics and months they should be covered in) from the last school so was thinking of just getting some of that ready in the hope that most schools cover the same stuff in a similar time -frame. That was a long sentence. Whoops.

Anyhow so any ideas for what I could be prepping in terms of lesson plans etc so I can hit the ground running in the next post I pick up?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Heydeldel

Apart from the slightly cringe worthy title, the book How to Be A Brilliant English Teacher , by Trevor Wright is actually brilliant.

Got it on amazon and really enjoying it. He gives great teaching methodologies covering everything from Shakespeare to poetry, and even manages to liven up functional writing. It's jargon free and easy to read.

I'm finding it really useful anyhow and would recommend it.

Even though I've only read as far as chapter two I have a list of new methods to try.

BobTerwilliger

My fellow English teacher and I set up a Twitter page in our school in September. It's @portenglish. I think it's a useful means of linking the kids to various resources you may not have the opportunity to use in class. If you scroll down you'll see links to plenty of other useful Twitter pages too. I find TES English and SCC English very useful. leavingcertenglish.net is very handy also. The teacher of the year 2012, Evelyn O'Connor, set it up. We've mainly uploaded things on Macbeth, Of Mice and Men, a bit of poetry and the language styles.

Heydeldel

This is a humorous site for grammar - yes one exists!

http://http://theoatmeal.com/tag/grammar

Love the semi -colon poster!

It's a bit rude in parts so have good read before using in class etc. I had to teach an interview lesson recently on the semi -colon with a bunch of 12 -13 year olds. I used the semi -colon cartoon explanations from the site and messed around with them a bit. I'm enjoying teaching grammar more. I used to shy away from it; frightening beast that it is.

Enjoy.