EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Starting to Teach English Language A Level (Leeds)
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £265 per place
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Location - Clayton Hotel, Leeds
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Duration - 10-3.30pm
If you are (or are about to be) teaching English Language for the first time, this course will give you an introduction to most of the key areas. We will explore ways to develop both your own knowledge and your students’ understanding of the building blocks of language analysis and the main approaches to sociolinguistic research used on all AS & A Level courses. Assuming no prior knowledge of English Language teaching and not focused on one particular specification, this course will equip you to take on the first year of teaching with confidence.
Areas covered on the day include:
- How to develop confidence, knowledge and skills for analysing texts
- A look at the different types of text and data typically found at A Level
- An introduction to sociolinguistic topic areas such as gender, ethnicity, accent and language change
- A survey of some of the main debates and arguments about language
- How to encourage student-led research and writing.
NB: This is a repeat course.
Getting to the course
Clayton Hotel Leeds is an 8-minute walk from Leeds Train Station. Take the new South Exit and following the directions below:
- Exit the station by the rear exit escalators from the Upper Concourse to Holbeck Urban Village
- Walk south on Little Neville Street past Golf Bar
- Turn left to stay on Little Neville Street
- Turn right on to Neville Street
- Continue straight over the river ahead onto Victoria Road past Bridgewater Place
- urn right at City Walk then left (signposted Clayton Hotel Pedestrian Access)
- The hotel is straight ahead.
A really excellent day which has given me confidence to face a new syllabus from September. Dan is an excellent presenter – full of practical tips for delivering the course, as well as sharing his passion and expertise in the subject. We are introducing the AQA A Level from scratch in September, so Dan's practical handouts and resources were brilliant, as were his recommendations for other useful websites and sources. Thank you for making these available electronically after the event.
Kate Thompson, Didcot Girls School, EMC CPD Face to Face: Starting to Teach English Language A Level (Bristol, 1.7.24 Summer 24)
Informative and inspiring: Made me realise I knew more than I thought I did. Well structured with a good balance of information and activities. Really helpful booklets too – and practical ideas for teaching.
Nick Griffin, Liskeard, EMC CPD Face to Face: Starting to Teach English Language A Level (Bristol, 1.7.24 Summer 24)
Dan Clayton
Dan Clayton is an education consultant at the EMC and specialises in English Language work at A Level and language education across the secondary curriculum. He has been a teacher of A Level English for over 20 years, senior examiner and moderator for different awarding bodies and is author/editor of many books for A Level English Language, including ones for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press & Routledge, as well as publications for the EMC and NATE. Dan has worked closely with many universities to help develop links between A level and HE, worked as a research fellow at UCL and runs the EngLangBlog site and @EngLangBlog Bluesky account, as well as being part of the Lexis Podcast team. He has also taught Media and Film Studies and is Associate Editor of emagazine and MediaMagazine.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Thursday 2nd 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 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.
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- Click submit and then Go to basket.
- Checkout.
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- 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.
