Presented by: Phil Beadle• Raise whole-school literacy standards
• How to ensure every teacher is a teacher of English
• Techniques to develop oracy in all subjects
• Leadership tools to close the literacy gap
Wherever Phil teaches there are remarkable rises in English GCSE results - from 50% A-C in 2009 to 85% in 2011 in his current National Challenge School. He won Teacher of the Year, and a Royal Television Society Award for encouraging his pupils to read Shakespeare to cows and perform Kung Fu to learn punctuation in the TV series 'The Unteachables'. He has numerous educational bestsellers under his belt and is a columnist 'On Teaching' for the Guardian.
"Where Sir Ken Robinson tells us what to do in education, Beadle shows us how to do it." Kwela Sabine Hermanns, Innovation Specialist
"Beadle is either totally insane, or some kind of inspired prophet, selflessly leading us all out of the education wilderness." Barbara Ellen, The Observer
DATES:
6th December 2013 London
Who should attend• Techniques to incorporate literacy even in maths lessons!
• Cross-curricular links with the arts
• Debunking some of the myths surrounding literacy
• Techniques to learn spellings of key words in all subjects
• Techniques to develop oracy in all subjects
• Punctuation: the forgotten literacy
Literacy in 2013• Secondary school leaders and teachers dedicated to raising literacy levels
• All teachers - even Maths!
Whole school commitment: Literacy for learning• Literacy's role in Ofsted's new framework
• The relationship between reading and listening abilities
• World class literacy techniques - lessons from afar
• Infiltrate leadership agendas with literacy
• Embed an ethos that 'Every teacher in English is a teacher of English'
• Engage English AND non-English specialists to:
- Teach reading
- Demystify spelling
- Become model writers
- Create verbally rich learning arenas
• Instil conversation as a school culture to promote:
- Confidence - Chatter - Connectivity
• Identify and share best practice in your setting
• Raise floor standards and close the literacy gap
• Audit success and plan the next steps to outstanding literacy
