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Exeter Model

Teacher Training Project

""I would never have had the confidence to teach poetry had I not taken part in this, but now I can't wait to teach it again!"
- Trainee Teacher Claire Sapiano

In partnership with the School of Education at Exeter University, poetryclass has been working with teachers right at the start of their careers. One of our poets, Ann Sansom, worked with a group of 12 PGCE students and their partner teachers on teaching practice. Together they explored creative ideas and methods for approaching poetry in the classroom at key stages 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Each student/teacher pair planned a series of linked poetry lessons, which they delivered during the Summer term 2001. They carried out observations and all the work was documented and evaluated. Featured here is a sample project, carried out at Knowles Hill School, where Student Teacher Claire Sapiano worked with Year 8 Teacher Erika Denham.

This was a pilot project, the first of its kind. Staff at Exeter University conducted a full evaluation to determine its effectiveness, and agreed to carry out a second phase in Spring Term 2003.

Knowles Hill School - an excerpt from the poetryclass/Exeter Teacher Training project.

- Introduction and Overview

- Scheme of work: Sequence and Content of Lessons (with examples)

- Student Evaluation (includes quotes from students at Knowles Hill School about poetry)

Poetry is not 'girly' in fact some of the boys wrote some of the best poems.

We learnt how to put crazy ideas that were in our heads down on paper no matter how strange they sounded.

My first few poems were really pathetic and didn't make sense and they were really meaningless but now my poems are meaning something.

You will enjoy poetry class because it's interesting, you only have to read out things if you want to, also because it is fun and you do things that other people don't normally get to do.

More quotes from students...

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