Written by Chris Curtis, How to Teach: English: Novels, non-fiction
and their artful navigation is jam-packed with enlivening ideas to help
teachers make the subject of English more intellectually challenging for
students - and to make it fun too!
Never underestimate your duty and power as a teacher of English. English
teachers help students to think and feel. They prompt them to reflect on
their actions. They hold a mirror to society and inspire students to see
how they can make it better.
What other subject does that?
This insightful interpretation of what makes excellent secondary school
English teaching is the work of a man whose humility fails to hide his
brilliance and provides educators with a sophisticated yet simple
framework upon which to hook their lessons. Covering poetry, grammar,
Shakespeare and how to teach writing, Chris Curtis has furnished every
page of this book with exciting ideas that can be put into practice
immediately.
Each chapter presents a store of practical strategies to help students
in key areas - providing apposite examples, teaching sequences and the
rationale behind them - and has been accessibly laid out so that
teachers can pinpoint the solutions they need without having to spend an
age wading through academic theory and pontification.
The book explores the wealth of learning opportunities that can be
derived from both classic and more contemporary literature and offers
expert guidance on how teachers can exploit their own chosen texts to
best effect with their students. Furthermore, it is replete with
ready-to-use approaches that will help teachers upgrade their lesson
planning, enhance their classroom practice and ensure that the content
they cover sticks in their students' heads for months and years
afterwards.
Suitable for all English teachers of students aged 11-18.
