EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Teaching Mixed Attainment English – Leeds
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £265 per place
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Location - Leeds
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Duration - 10-3.30pm
Research suggests that mixed attainment teaching benefits the majority of students a small amount in terms of final outcomes, and significantly in terms of their self-esteem and general well-being. Over the past few years, many schools have recognised its value and moved away from setting and streaming.
It can be difficult to get mixed attainment right, though. This course will explore how best to make mixed attainment teaching work, specifically for English, with a focus on:
- Building an ‘access for all, challenge for all’ curriculum
- Pitching high and scaffolding upwards
- Providing ways into difficult texts
- Using classroom talk effectively
- Planning for ‘ingredient-led’ rather than ‘component-led’ learning
- Treating English as a subject that moves towards ‘horizons’ rather than ‘endpoints’.
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.
I found the course well delivered and very useful. It was thoroughly worth attending. I have already used a couple of the ideas and adapted my suggested book list to include a wider range of texts for all reading appetites.
Sheila Hoover, St George's
Andrew McCallum
Andrew McCallum is Director of the English and Media Centre. Prior to that he ran a PGCE course in secondary English, and previously he taught for 15 years in London schools, spending most of that time at Acland Burghley School in Camden. He holds a doctorate in education, is author of Creativity and Learning in Secondary English (Routledge) and writes regularly for NATE's Teaching English magazine. If asked to name the EMC publication he's most proud of having worked on, it would be a three-way contest between Iridescent Adolescent, Diverse Shorts and Write On.
James Durran
James Durran is a part-time Senior Education Adviser in North Yorkshire, with 25 years’ experience teaching English, media and drama in state secondary schools. He has been a Head of English and an Advanced Skills Teacher, has lectured on initial teacher training courses and has tutored on MA courses for the Institute of Education (UCL) and the British Film Institute. An experienced trainer, James has delivered seminars, lectures and practical workshops across the country and abroad on the teaching of English, media and literacy, for both secondary and primary teachers. He has published a number of books for teachers and students, including (with Andrew Burn) Media Literacy in Schools.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Friday 14th March 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 also 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.