English subject training for non specialists - Making the most of Grammar

This training is facilitated by Sophie King School Improvement Director for English

Objectives:

A session not just for new teachers and non-specialists:

Understand how grammar and syntax is a foundation of secure and clear writing.

Determine which strategies and approaches can be most easily adopted in to existing teaching strategies for the benefit of individual cohorts of students.

Decide upon the best strategy to trial / return to departments with.

Outcomes:

With mastery of vocabulary an ongoing priority outside of English departments, teaching the nuances of grammar for creative and transactional writing is certainly considered more of an area for subject specialists and therefore expertise and confidence is needed. Alongside reviewing tried and tested methods for ‘writing’, this session will look at how grammar can be manipulated in analytical and academic writing to enable students to write with more fluency, efficiency and with a greater degree of sophistication, regardless of starting point.

Hopefully you will leave the session with a few strategies to trial alongside your department approaches to writing.