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EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Starting to Study A Level Literature – Transition from GCSE

Availability
Places available
Price
£245 per place
Location
EMC, SE1 8QW
Duration
10-3.30pm

The move from GCSE to A Level has always been a bit of a leap and for many today the gulf feels increasingly wide. This new course will make sure the transition goes smoothly and that students are prepared to tackle their A Level with excitement, confidence and increasing independence. We will explore approaches which open students’ eyes to new ways of reading, thinking, discussing and writing about texts – new challenges in a risk-free context. The course will give you the opportunity to try out the activities, to reflect on the pedagogy behind them and to consider ways of building on these approaches to learning.
  • What is this subject? What does it mean to be a student of English Literature?
  • Tackling assumptions, establishing new ways of working.
  • New ways of reading: analytically, creatively, critically.
  • Writing without a frame: how to think and write confidently.
  • A talkative classroom: supporting through challenge.
  • Beyond the set texts: reading and writing widely and for pleasure.

EMC, 44 Webber Street, London, SE1 8QW

How to get to the English and Media Centre

National Rail:

Waterloo and Waterloo East are within 10 minutes walk

Underground:

Southwark on the Jubilee Line

Waterloo on the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City and Northern Lines

Buses:

The following bus routes go close to Webber Street: 1, 139, 168, 171, 172, 344

 
Photo of Emma Barker

Emma Barker

Emma Barker worked as an English teacher for many years in London schools, leading each of the key stages before becoming Head of English. At the EMC since 2016, she ran the English with media/drama PGCE course until 2023 and continues to teach the English side of EMC's Media with English PGCE with Goldsmiths, as well as working on student conferences and A Level courses at the Centre

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Lucy Webster

Lucy Webster has been an advisory teacher at EMC since 1999. She is co-editor of emagazine, runs courses and writes and edits publications, specialising in A Level English Literature. Recent publications include Doing Close Reading, study guides to A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, King Lear, Atonement and Mrs Dalloway and Yes We Can: EMC Approaches to Rhetoric – A Practical Guide for 11-14. She edited The Literature Reader and co-edited What Matters in English Teaching.
  • Bookings for this course will close at 8am BST on Monday 1st July or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner. 
  • This course must be booked online. 
  • To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts:
    • UK Educator Admin (purchasing)
    • UK Teacher – Home Address Only
    • UK Private Individual
    • Overseas
  • If you have a UK Educator Standard account you will not be able to book the course. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book courses at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
  1. Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
  2. Add the number of places you need. 
  3. Fill in the names and email addresses of the people attending. To secure your place, please make sure you add the attendee details immediately and checkout within 24 minutes. Otherwise the booking will expire and you will have to begin the process again. The joining information and post-course email will be emailed to both the person booking the course and the attendee.
  4. Click submit and then Go to basket.
  5. Checkout. 
  6. Please pay by card if you can. If you need to pay by invoice, you must be signed into a ‘UK Educator Admin User' account. You will not be able to request an invoice if you have one of the short courses in your basket at the same time. These must be paid for in advance.
  7. We know people who are travelling to in-person courses by train like to book their tickets as soon as possible to take advantage of cheaper fares. This course has now reached viable numbers so we can confirm it will run (barring unforeseen circumstances, see below). (For details of timing, centre address and map, see right.)
  8. Please note, if a course has to be cancelled for reasons beyond our reasonable control, you will not be charged for the course and will receive a refund if you paid in advance. However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the course which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us.

Cancellations and amendments

  • We require at least five working days’ notice of cancellation, otherwise your school will be invoiced for the full amount. However, if you are not able to attend and a colleague would like to take your place, this can be arranged at any time. (Please email us with the name and email address of the teacher.)
  • You will receive a notification when the course has reached viable numbers and will definitely run unless there are circumstances beyond our reasonable control. 
  • If a course does have to be cancelled you will not be charged for the course and will receive a refund if you paid in advance. However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the course which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us. You may wish to wait until you hear that the course has reached viable numbers before booking these.
  • Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.