2023 – Holly Wimbush and Zara Shah – Grammar is Power
Teaching and Learning Leeds Conference 2023
- Timetable 2023
Workshop facilitator
Holly Wimbush and Zara Shah
Name of Workshop
Grammar is Power- so how can we wield it in the secondary English curriculum?
Who is it for
Secondary English teachers.
Brief synopsis of workshop:
This session proposes a concept-led English curriculum that prioritises the teaching of grammar as a cognitive framework, one that helps to organise and build upon procedural knowledge, across the key stages. It starts with an evidence-informed approach that interrogates some of the existing approaches around the teaching of grammar within educational discourse and discusses how grammar can be used as a useful tool to build and develop schemas. It will then explore some mechanisms that practitioners can use to prioritise and implement key grammatical knowledge, both within context and outside of it, followed by a focus on strategies that team leaders can employ to successfully embed this conceptual knowledge within the very fabric of their curriculum vision, curriculum discussions within teams and learning in every classroom.
What you will get out of it:
An understanding of the existing approaches to the teaching of grammar and how grammar can be used as a tool to develop schemas. Strategies for teaching grammar in context as well as explicitly in the secondary English classroom
Profile of facilitator:
@HWimbushEnglish
@zssnas