The real challenge for secondary school teachers is not so much teaching children how to read, but teaching children how to read to learn. This is not just semantics: it’s a reorientation away from the notion of reading as being some kind of general ability that students can deploy equally across the curriculum. It involves seeing reading in terms of specific disciplinary practices.
With a greater emphasis on whether schools have adopted or constructed an ambitious curriculum, school leaders are now in a strong position to evaluate and improve how reading is taught in all areas of the curriculum and how they prepare all children to make good progress and become better prepared for the next stages of their learning.
Join us for this full day masterclass to ensure that you are prepared to support your school to improve reading and critical thinking.
This course is essential to ensuring that your school is providing a rich curriculum which supports children’s development of reading and critical literacy across all subjects.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is suitable for teachers of all subjects looking to embed literacy skills across their curriculum.
KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This Masterclass will enable you to:
Promote reading across the whole curriculum • Understand what good practice looks like
Ensure your school’s curriculum is ‘language rich’
Inspire children to draw on high-quality published and online texts
Update your knowledge on the current Ofsted inspection framework and the implications this has for teaching and learning
Track, monitor and evidence that children are making good and better progress in reading foundation subjects
FACILITATOR
Ed is Curriculum & Literacy Associate for JMC Education and Education Manager at the University of Bath, leading a major curriculum transformation and evaluation project in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Ed’s leadership expertise in schools includes leading teaching and learning, curriculum change, and on staff development as Deputy Head (Academic) in an HMC boarding school. He has 15 years’ experience leading digital learning, including as Head of Education for an English and Maths edtech platform, and he is a Microsoft Certified Educator. He is a governor of an SEMH primary, secondary and AP multi-academy trust with responsibility for safeguarding. He has also previously been a director of a mainstream MAT and has board experience in HE and third sector care and heritage organisation
