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English Teaching Today

English Teaching Today. Geoff Barton Headteacher, King Edward VI School, Suffolk, UK, and English teacher. Download this presentation at www.geoffbarton.co.uk/teacher-resources . (Presentation number 93). Hello. A brief history of English teaching

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English Teaching Today

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  1. English Teaching Today Geoff Barton Headteacher, King Edward VI School, Suffolk, UK, and English teacher Download this presentation at www.geoffbarton.co.uk/teacher-resources (Presentation number 93)

  2. Hello.

  3. A brief history of English teaching The key ingredients in successfully teaching speaking & listening, reading and writing A demonstration

  4. REFLECT TALK

  5. ?

  6. What How

  7. +

  8. 1: Model the way we teach English today

  9. 2: Be lexically redundant

  10. Do you want to leave now?

  11. A brief history of English teaching

  12. This is what classrooms used to look like …

  13. 1870s

  14. Elementary Education Act 1870: National education for children aged 5-12

  15. Beginning of national literacy

  16. NOW: Writing Speaking & listening Reading

  17. THEN: Writing Reading Exercises Repetition Copying ✗

  18. ✔ English as a subject

  19. Edmund Coote Headmaster King Edward VI Grammar School 1596 … for nine months

  20. Edmund Coote Headmaster King Edward VI Grammar School 1596 Latin Greek Hebrew NOT English

  21. 1870

  22. Grammar

  23. Parse the italicised words: • “The lady protests too much, methinks” • “Sit thee down” • “I saw him taken” • Rewrite these sentences correctly: • “Louis was in some respects a good man, but being a bad ruler his subjects rebelled” • “Vainly endeavouring to suppress his emotion, the service was abruptly brought to an end” Alfred S West, The Elements of English Grammar

  24. George Sampson ‘English for the English’ 1921

  25. Literature Speaking & listening

  26. FR Leavis & Denys Thompson 1950s

  27. Culture Morality Personal growth Discrimination

  28. English becomes the most important subject. Therefore …

  29. The English teacher becomes the most important teacher

  30. Freedom and autonomy

  31. 5 years

  32. ✔ ✗

  33. 1960s

  34. Move away from grammar

  35. 1989 First National Curriculum

  36. Today: New National Curriculum based on international comparisons

  37. Social mobility

  38. The Matthew Effect (Robert K Merton)

  39. The rich shall get richer and the poor shall get poorer Matthew 13:12

  40. “the word-rich get richer while the word-poor get poorer” in their reading skills (CASL)

  41. “Good readers may choose friends who also read avidly while poor readers seek friends with whom they share other enjoyments” The Matthew Effect Daniel Rigney

  42. Stricht’s Law: “reading ability in children cannot exceed their listening ability …” E.D. Hirsch The Schools We Need

  43. “Spoken language forms a constraint, a ceiling not only on the ability to comprehend but also on the ability to write, beyond which literacy cannot progress” Myhill and Fisher

  44. The Matthew Effect: The rich will get richer & the poor will get poorer

  45. REFLECTION What do you agree or disagree with? What surprises you? What would you like to learn more about?

  46. Emphasise exploratory talk (‘how’ and ‘why’ questions) Vary student groupings: remember ‘the Matthew effect’ Break tyranny of questions and answers Alternatives to ‘hands-up’ Thinking time & oral rehearsal

  47. REFLECTION What do you agree or disagree with? What surprises you? What are the implications for your teaching?

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