EMC CPD Online: What We Teach When We Teach Novels (at KS3)
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Availability -
Places available
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Price - £45 per place
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Location - Online
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Duration - 2-3.30pm
This course will explore exactly what it is that we want to do when we teach the novel at KS3. Rather than focus on particular novels, it will focus on the genre itself, asking important questions about the nature of teaching this form that lies at the heart of subject English. This course will be particularly suitable for teachers looking to tweak their existing teaching of novels, revamp an old scheme of work, or plan a scheme around an entirely new novel.
NB: This is a repeat course.
This course will be recorded but attendees will not be audible or visible.
This webinar is included in the EMC Webinar Package Summer 2025. Click here for details of the package and to order for your department. See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department has bought the package.
Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.
- If relevant, course materials will be sent the day before the course in the email with your joining instructions. Please either print these out or have them available on screen during the session.
- After the session you will receive the PowerPoint presentation and any resources used on the course.
- After the session you will receive a link to register to watch a recording of this session on-demand until 31st August 2025.
How to join this course if your department has bought the webinar package
- To join the live session, register using the registration link sent to the departmental key contact. You can register to join the live session right up to the start of the webinar. Use the unique link sent by [email protected] to join the webinar on the day.
- To watch the recording on-demand, register using the on-demand registration link sent to the departmental key contact the day after the live session. This email will also include the PowerPoint presentation and any additional resources. On-demand expires 31st August 2025.
As a new teacher I found this course crucial in changing my perspective of teaching literature. It has given me the confidence to step away from a strict 'mastery' approach to teaching novels, while also giving helpful suggestions on how to still gauge students understanding of the text in more interesting ways. I will definitely be trying the journaling technique with my class. Natalie Kyriakidou-Lennox, The Foley's School, Summer 2023
This was the first time I have been on a course with EMC and I really loved it. It was really refreshing to hear new ideas about how to tackle novels, and reminded me of how important journaling is for the students to feel engaged with the text. Ceridwen Rilstone, International School of Geneva, Summer 2023
Brilliant course, I liked that there were opportunities to be interactive with the speaker which in turn gave us the chance to see other people’s views and ideas. Claire Kelly, Oak Bank School, Summer 2023
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.
This webinar is included in the EMC Webinar Package Summer 2025. Click here for details of the package and to order for your department. See 'Further Details' for how to join this webinar if your department has bought the package.
Booking this course as a 'one-off' purchase.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Tuesday 6th May 2025, or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course is part of our 2 for 1 offer
- Book a place on this course and you’ll be sent a voucher code entitling you to book a further place on the same course for a colleague at your school. Your code will be emailed to you as soon as we have received your booking.
- Please note: bookings for this course close at 8am on Tuesday 6th May 2025. The 2nd free place must be booked before the closing date, so please make sure you give yourself enough time!
- Your voucher can only be redeemed online and is only eligible against this course.
(Any issues please email Lucy.)
- This course must be booked and paid for online. Payment by invoice is not available for this session. Please note: your fee is non-refundable.
- To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
- UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing)
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- 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. (Payment by invoice is not available for this session.)
- IF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR 2 FOR 1 OFFER, PLEASE WAIT TO BE SENT YOUR CODE BEFORE BOOKING YOUR 2ND PLACE.
- 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.
- Instructions on how to join the course (including Zoom login details) will be sent from [email protected] for the first time on the day bookings close. Reminders, including any course handouts, will be sent the day before and one-hour before the course. Please check your junk or promotions folder. Still no luck? Email us before 1pm on the course day [email protected].
Cancellation and amendments
- Afternoon and twilight webinars must be paid for by card at the time of booking.
- The fee is non-refundable.
- However, the webinars are recorded. Anyone who books a place on the course will be sent a link to register to access the recording of the webinar until 31st August 2025, regardless of whether they attended live.