EMC CPD Face-to-Face: A Day for ECTs – Teaching with Confidence
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £265 per place
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Location - EMC, SE1 8QW
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Duration - 10-3.30pm
You will have learned and achieved a lot in the first year of your new job, but you might also have reached a point where you recognise the need to boost your knowledge and experience in certain key areas of the curriculum, or feel you have used up all of your best ideas. This course gives you the chance to reflect on your experiences so far with other teachers in a similar position, while developing your subject knowledge and the stock of teaching strategies that you have at your disposal. Sessions on active approaches to Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel will be provided by actor Tom Davey. Deliberately placed towards the end of term, when you are most likely to need some fresh ideas, you will leave with a wide range of resources that you can put to immediate use.
Areas covered on the day include:
- Sharing experiences and ideas with other new teachers
- Strategies and resources for teaching challenging literature at KS3 and KS4
- Strategies and resources for teaching GCSE Language
- Teaching close reading.
NB: This is a repeat course.
How to get to the English and Media Centre, 44 Webber Street, London, SE1 8QW
Once you are on Webber Street, look out for the big gates and a sign saying CLPE. You’ll see EMC’s sign to the right of the entrance.
National Rail:
- Waterloo and Waterloo East are within 10 minutes walk
- London Blackfriars is a 10-15 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
Fantastic and very insightful course! I loved the variation in the ways of learning. The cross over for drama was great and the ideas for engaging students were incredibly useful. Caitlin Harvey, Invicta Grammar School, Autumn 2024
The course truly was lovely; practising tasks and teaching approaches as students and also as teachers and how to apply within our own contexts was super helpful. Aneeka Zaman, Mayfield School, Autumn 2024
Loved it! Each of the sessions were carefully thought out to allow us active thinking time, peer discussion and reflection in/post task. I felt very welcome and my contributions were respected. My enthusiasm for the activities was evident, but most of all, it's the impact on learning and joy in the classroom that I can't wait to share! Julie Houston, The Buckingham School, Autumn 2024
Lucy Hinchliffe
Lucy Hinchliffe is EMC’s Research & Projects Lead consultant. Her work is focused on exploring how English is taught in schools and how EMC can best support this through publications and CPD. She also specialises in KS3 and KS4 courses at the Centre, and has contributed to several publications, including the EMC Teaching novels pack for The Bone Sparrow, and EMC KS3 Poetry Plus. Lucy was an English teacher, KS3 Coordinator and whole school CPD leader in an outer London school prior to joining EMC full time.
Kate Oliver
Kate Oliver taught for 14 years in Inner London in various roles. She now works as an education consultant for the English and Media Centre, specialising in KS3 and KS4. Her favourite aspects of English teaching are creative writing and poetry. She also has a particular interest in the wider implications of the subject such as getting students reading for pleasure and engaging teachers of other subjects with language across the curriculum. Her most recent publications for EMC are KS3 Poetry Plus, Just Write and Animal Farm: An EMC Full Text Study Edition.
Tom Davey
Tom Davey is an education practitioner and RADA trained actor. His acting career includes two years at the Royal Shakespeare Company playing lead roles. Tom has worked as an education practitioner at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Young Vic, Shakespeare’s Globe, the London Shakespeare Workout Prison Project and now runs his own business, Bright Torches, providing integrated-drama approaches for schools. He has worked with thousands of school children of all ages on Shakespeare’s plays as well as with students, teachers and professional actors. This work has taken him to many places in the UK as well as California, New York, Brunei, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Malta and China. He is passionate about the impact that rehearsal room activities can have on building personal responses to Shakespeare’s text and providing positive experiences for teachers and pupils. You can find details of his work in schools at www.brighttorches.com.- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Tuesday 1st July 2025 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 Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing)
- 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’.
- Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
- Add the number of places you need.
- 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.
- Click submit and then Go to basket.
- Checkout.
- 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.
- Once you have booked your place, you will see a screen indicating your order has been successful. You may want to make a note of your order number. The person making the booking and the attendee will receive an automatic acknowledgement of your booking.
- When the course has reached viable numbers, this will be indicated on the course page on the website and you may wish to book your transport.
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 [email protected] with the name and email address of the teacher.)
- We will indicate on the website when the course has reached viable numbers and will definitely run unless there are circumstances beyond our reasonable control. If you have booked your place before this threshold has been reached, we will email you to let you know. Before booking travel you may wish to wait until it has been confirmed on the website or by email that the course has reached viable numbers.
- 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.
- Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.