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EMC CPD Face-to-Face: A Day for ECTs – Teaching with Confidence

Availability
Places available
Price
£245 per place
Location
EMC, SE1 8QW
Duration
10-3.30pm
You will have learned and achieved a lot in the first few months 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 C 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.
  • 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.

EMC, 44 Webber Street, London, SE1 8QW

How to get to the English and Media Centre

National Rail:

Waterloo and Waterloo East are within 10 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

 
Photo of Andrew McCallum

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.

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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.
Photo of Tom Davey

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 Monday 25th November 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:
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    • UK Private Individual
    • Overseas
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  3. 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. The joining information and post-course email will be emailed to both the person booking the course and the attendee.
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  8. 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.)
  • You will receive a notification when the course has reached viable numbers and will definitely run unless there are circumstances beyond our reasonable control. 
  • 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. You may wish to wait until you hear that the course has reached viable numbers before booking these.
  • Our face-to-face courses are very interactive and cannot be live-streamed.