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"taking
the fear out
of teaching poetry"
Is
poetry an important feature of life in your school?
Does it
enrich and enliven the Literacy Hour?
Do pupils
write it eagerly and read it with enjoyment?
Do
teachers approach it with confidence and enthusiasm?
poetryclass
is the solution for teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in
the classroom. Our online poetry classroom and unique INSET training provides teachers with a 'nuts and bolts' insight into how poetry works.
A training team of poets, all of whom are highly experienced with
work in schools and have between them hundreds of tried and tested
ideas, is available to work with teachers to overcome their problems and concerns
with teaching poetry.
The
Poetry Society has a long and successful history of education work. We
find that working with poetry is not only a creative end in itself but
also a powerful tool for raising standards in literacy and developing
language skills. It frequently releases untapped potential
amongst students who are not confident in traditional narrative or
essay writing. It also offers exciting challenges to targeted
groups of students and through subject areas across the curriculum.
Forthcoming
Poetryclass day
Reading
Poetry
a day of poetry pleasure for teachers
Poetryclass
INSET day with poet Sue Dymoke
Key Stages 2, 3 & 4
Thursday
17 July 2008
10am - 3:30pm
Shakespeare
Memorial Room
Birmingham Central Library
Chamberlain Square
Birmingham B3 3HQ
To tie in with the National Year of Reading and July’s theme of “Rhythm and Rhyme” month, we have set up a Poetryclass day dedicated to Teachers as Readers.
Teachers will be encouraged to imagine, explore and entertain as they read and write. Each session will be flexibly structured and filled with creative activities to ensure that teachers have fun with poetry and take away ideas to inspire their own reading and teaching of the genre further.
Sue Dymoke will take teachers through three sessions looking at teachers as readers, capturing responses to poetry through drama, visual images and written speech, and looking at what exactly makes a poem.
Thanks to generous funding from The Ratcliff Foundation, we can offer this day to teachers at a very special reduced rate.
The full price per teacher is £30 (including lunch and refreshments)
In addition to the workshops with Sue Dymoke, the price includes:
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A resource pack including information, lesson plans and materials to use in the classroom.
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A copy of ‘The Poetry Book for Primary Schools’ (ed. Anthony Wilson) or ‘Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School’ (ed. Cliff Yates)
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The Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award anthologies, posters from Poems on the Underground along with other materials.
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A toolkit of tried-and-tested techniques designed to get students thinking, reading, writing, redrafting and editing.
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Ideas for differentiation and progression.
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Opportunities to raise questions and concerns.
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Full buffet lunch and tea/coffee throughout the
day.
All teachers are welcome, and all sessions will be non-threatening and kind to teachers!
To book a place, please call Angel Dahouk on 020 7420 9889
or email adahouk@poetrysociety.org.uk
ABOUT
SUE DYMOKE
Sue Dymoke is a senior lecturer at the University of Leicester where she leads the PGCE English course. Before moving into Teacher Education she worked as an English teacher in 11 - 18 schools for sixteen years.
Sue specialises in researching and writing about the teaching of poetry and leading workshops with primary and secondary teachers on varied topics including: ways into writing poetry; poetry and science; planning the poetry curriculum from KS1 to Post-16 level.
Sue is a member of the education working group of the national Poetry Archive and a regular speaker at teacher conferences. Her publications include: Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers (Paul Chapman Publishing, 2003), The New Girls: new and selected poems (Shoestring Press, 2004) and Not Just a Game: Sporting Poetry (Five Leaves, 2006, an anthology co-edited with Andy Croft). She has also written many articles for Secondary English Magazine on teaching poetry.
‘Very inspirational…. Super training…. Just try and stop those poems being written!’ (Primary Science co-ordinators who took part in a ‘Poetry and Magnetism’ workshop in 2007).
Article by Andy Croft
"Going
into schools these days is a complicated business. You are expected to
be entertaining and funny and accessible. You are often
there so that the school can show it has taken steps to address
literacy problems identified in the last OFSTED report, and to help
the school promote itself in the local paper. You are required to help
deliver the national literacy strategy, and more often than not to
address issues like bullying, drugs and racism. "...
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