EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Writing for A Level English Language
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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
This full day in-person course, aimed primarily at teachers of the AQA English Language A Level, is designed to help you support your students with Original Writing for the NEA and opinion pieces for Paper 2. Over three sessions, we will look at supporting students to write effectively in different forms and how to produce effective, analytical commentaries. Two guest presenters will offer their expert insights: Harriet Williamson (formerly of The Independent and now of Pink News) will lead a session on what makes for a good opinion piece and how to encourage students to write effective opinion articles, while hugely experienced A Level English teacher and PhD candidate in YA fiction, Beth Kemp will lead a session on prose fiction. Dan Clayton will look at developing language content in opinion pieces and writing commentaries for the NEA.
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
Excellent resources. Good mix of theory/big ideas and practical activities/implications for classroom practice. Helpful to have a range of speakers: academic, journalist and someone with in-depth knowledge of the A-level course, assessment objectives and classroom reality. Emma Fast, Overton Grange School, Summer 2024
Outstanding- I enjoyed this very much. Going away with lots of new knowledge. Jean Devlin, The Buckingham School, Summer 2024
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.
Harriet Williamson
Harriet Williamson is Weekend Editor at PinkNews – the world’s largest LGBTQ+ media publisher. She was previously the Voices Commissioning Editor at The Independent.
Beth Kemp
Beth Kemp is conducting PhD research into young people's perceptions of diverse YA fiction. She is also Programme Lead for GCSE English Language at Leicester College.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Wednesday 11th June or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- This course must be booked online.
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- Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.