Phil BeadleEnglish Teacher, Educational Consultant, Author and Associate, Independent ThinkingDavid DidauHead of English, Priory Community School Author of ‘The Perfect Ofsted English Lesson’Alice WashbourneEAL Literacy Consultant and Author of ‘EAL Pocketbook’Carol AllenICT and SEN Advisor, North Tyneside LADr Charlotte Carter WallFormer English Teacher, Literacy Consultant and Director, Transform LearningKevin JeffreyLead Adviser, Black County Challenge ‘Literacy 9-13 project’ and Director, Professional Literacy Company Dr Susan JonesLecturer in Education, Literacy Researcher, Exeter University

Outstanding Secondary School Literacy

To register: www.teachology-education.com/secondaryliteracy T 020 7736 1680 F 0844 544 6515 E chris@teachology.co.uk

The national conference

in leading literacy

Benefit from an eclectic mix of exceptional literacy practitioners and school leaders

Friday 16th November 2012, Central London

Improving whole school standards of literacy and embedding literacy in every lesson

Why you should attend:

Achieve and maintain Ofsted outstanding literacy across the curriculum

Discover effective ways to embed literacy in every lesson

Transform all teachers into teachers of English

Ensure a smooth transition between Key Stage 2 and 3 literacy learning

Prepare pupils for the high literacy stakes at university and in the workplace

Remove common barriers to literacy and narrow attainment gaps

Transform your school’s EAL and SEN literacy teaching

Promote total pupil engagement with creative, dramatic activities

Benchmark your literacy agenda against outstanding and best practice schools

Book by 5th October to save at least £30

Without reading and writing skills pupils find it difficult to access the curriculum and achieve well in their examinations. As a result, too many young adults lack the functional skills to make their way in the modern world.“

Outstanding Secondary School LiteracyImproving whole school standards of literacy and embedding literacy in every lesson

” Michael Wilshaw, 2012

Who should attend this event?

teachers and Principals

teams

SEN coordinators

Heads of English Departments

subject teachers

Gain the crucial tools to deliver consistently outstanding literacy and make literacy an integral ingredient of learning across the curriculum.

Schools are under fire to tackle the wide-spread literacy problem. With Ofsted prioritising inspections for schools with the lowest achievement levels in literacy, inspectors are now keen to assess every teacher’s ability to explicitly teach literacy in their lessons.

On top of Ofsted’s drive for improving literacy exam boards are now scrutinising pupils’ SPaG skills at GCSE; literacy is consequently crucial to gaining the highest grades possible. However solid literacy teaching isn’t simply a means of moving up league tables: equipping students with strong literacy skills is a prerequisite to their functioning in an increasingly competitive work-place and in a world where articulate self-expression is king.

With 1 in 5 children leaving primary school with below average literacy skills, there is great pressure on secondary schools to improve pupils’ literacy abilities if pupils are to make effective use of lesson content and lead a successful life after school.

This conference is a showcase of the best in literacy teaching at the vital secondary school level. Embed outstand-ing literacy techniques that are proven to improve exam scores, ensure your school has a solid whole school literacy agenda, and equip every student with the best opportunity possible to be eloquently literate at 16.

Kevin Jeffrey worked as an English teacher, adviser, and inspector for English in a number of local authorities before joining John Stannard to set up the original National Literacy Project and then the National Literacy Strategy. He has since worked as director of two large cross phase school partnerships: Gloucester Education Action Zone and the Wednesbury Learning Community. He combined his work in Wednesbury with freelance consultancy: first, as Lead Adviser on the Black Country Challenge ‘Literacy 9–13’ project, and secondly as Director of the Professional Literacy Company.

Reading a variety of literature independently by the age of 15 is the single biggest indicator of future success, outweighing negative factors such as socioeconomic background or family situation.“

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School Guide to Literacy 2011/12, National Literacy Trust research

David Didau has been teaching since 2000 and runs a successful English faculty at Priory Community School. He blogs about learning at learningspy.co.uk, writes regularly for the Guardian Teacher Network, and has just published every literacy coordinator and English teacher’s bible, ‘The Perfect Ofsted English Lesson’.

Dr Charlotte Carter-Wall was a School Standards Adviser and the Programme Leader for the Extra Mile Project at the DfE. A former English/history teacher and senior leader, with an MBA in international school leadership and a PhD which provided the basis of Birmingham local authority’s emotional literacy programme, her experience ranges from curriculum innovation and school improvement to tackling disadvantage – most recently contributing to the design and delivery of the Pupil Premium.

Phil Beadle is an expert in literacy for all ages at Independent Thinking. 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 has 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 best-sellers under his belt and is a columnist ‘On Teaching’ for the Guardian.

www.teachology-education.com/secondaryliteracy T 020 7736 1680 F 0844 544 6515 E chris@teachology.co.uk

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

09.00 Registration and refreshments

09.30 Helping your school achieve Ofsted outstanding literacy across the curriculum

This session is led by the literacy guru, Professor David Wray. Acoveted speaker at literacy conferences, a prolific researcher,writer of books on all aspects of literacy teaching, and best knownfor his innovative teaching strategies to help pupils access thecurriculum through literacy. His infectious ambition to make literacymatter has resulted in the creation of Extending Interactions withTexts (EXIT) model which guides the teaching of reading to learnand writing frames to help with the writing of factual text types. Hiswork formed an essential basis of the National Literacy Strategy at primary and secondary levels and he has led work into electronic learning for Dorling Kindersley and the Guardian.David Wray, Professor of Literacy Education, Institute of Education,University of Warwick

10.15 English as the keystone in the curriculum: the perfect Ofsted English lesson

framework

of varying abilities

knowledge and skills are inseparable

to classify learning outcomes in terms of complexity

learning outcomes

knowledge and acquire the skills to use this knowledge creatively

work in terms of how interesting it is not whether it’s wrong or right.

knowledge, not simply knowledge alone

readers David Didau, Author of ‘The Perfect Ofsted English Lesson’ andHead of English, Priory Community School, Somerset

11.15 Morning break

11.35 Hitting the ground running: how to ensure a smooth transition in literacy standards from primary to secondary school

of secondary school subjects

between Key Stage 2 and 3 Kevin Jeffrey, Director, Professional Literacy Company

12.25 Lunch

13.15 A practical showcase of outstanding literacy teaching

English

lesson to lift the floor of literacy standards

and developing oracy, plus methods to teach the spellings of key words in all subjects

parts of speech to drive improvement in their writing

and high-order, high-value learning outcomesPhil Beadle, Associate, Independent Thinking

14.30 Afternoon break

Streamed Session 1A

14.50 Removing barriers to literacy and excelling against the odds

- raising whole school expectations; developing speaking and listening skills; embedding assessment that leads to improvement; using data effectively, especially data for new Year 7s; carefully planned provision and intervention

immediate communityDr Charlotte Carter Wall, Director, Transform Learning

Streamed Session 1B

14.50 Outstanding SEN literacy: inclusion and technology-led strategies to support creativity in teaching and learning

communication

to improve the impact of lesson content

curriculum

of SEN pupils in the mainstream classroomCarol Allen, ICT and SEN Advisor, North Tyneside LA

Streamed Session 2A

15.40 Grammar, writing, and pupils’ metalinguistic understanding: what is proven to raise literacy standards?

Prioritise your literacy agenda with the latest insights from a uniqueand internationally significant academic study investigating howthe explicit teaching of grammar in the context of writing impactson the quality of pupils’ writing.

impact upon pedagogical strategies

instructional theories of writing

writing tasks and the use of particular linguistic structures

- teachers’ linguistic subject knowledge on the teaching of grammar

- pedagogical support materials on the teaching of grammar- grammar teaching on pupils’ writing and metalinguistic

understanding Dr Susan Jones, Lecturer in Education, Exeter University

Streamed Session 2B

15.40 Meeting the literacy needs of EAL pupils in secondary schools

mean for EAL learners?

KS4?

Alice Washbourne, EAL and literacy across the curriculumconsultant and author of the ‘EAL Pocketbook’

16.30 Conference close

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