Collection items
The Subject & pedagogy: introduction to the collection
This Collection is the first of seven that make up 'The Pool', a selection of Open Educational Resources designed to support the professional development of English lecturers. This resource collection (like all those which together form 'The Pool') is designed to inspire thinking about the formative relations between educational practice and the scholarly study of language, writing, and culture. Of interest to lecturers at different career stages (especially those just setting out), and to leaders of accredited courses.
Shared with the World by Mr Brett Lucas |
|
Working with the English subject benchmark statement
This activity is designed to familiarise early career lecturers with the English Benchmark Statement, and the principles underlying such documents. It consists of three parts: 1. An overview of the activity; 2. An activity that can be done with a group (useful to leaders of accredited courses); 3. An activity that can be carried out by individual lecturers.
Shared with the World by Mr Brett Lucas |
|
What is the Professional Standards Framework?
A factsheet designed to introduce the UK Professional Standards Framework (PSF) and explain how it relates to the teaching resources developed for the professional development resources in the collection.
Shared with the World by Mr Brett Lucas |
|
Working with the Creative Writing subject benchmark statement
This resource is designed to introduce lecturers to the Creative Writing Benchmark Statement, and to help them gain a deeper understanding of how the Benchmark works and how it can be applied in practice. It invites individuals or a group to explore for themselves the significance and value of this kind of document. This resource consists of three parts. 1. An overview of the activity 2. Using the Creative Writing Benchmark: an Individual Activity 3. Using the Creative Writing Benchmark: a Group activity.
Shared with the World by Mr Brett Lucas |
|
Writing & the teacher
This resource contains a set of activities that use 'Imaginative writing' in various ways as a tool for thinking and learning. Like many of the resources in The Pool, it aims to breach the barriers between subject thinking and educational thinking. The resource is made up of an introduction and two different activities: Activity 1: helps teachers and supporters of learning to explore the way in which their values and experience inform their minute-to-minute pedagogic decisions. Activity 2: involves identifying metaphors for teaching and then exploring them in practical ways.
Shared with the World by Mr Brett Lucas |
|
Hearing yourself teach
This resource is a development of the familiar idea of a learning journal. It represents an invitation to use private writing as a medium for extending and reflecting upon teaching experience. Thus it focuses on the use of reflective dialogue to defamiliarise day-to-day experience, and consciously improve teaching practice. The resource consists of an introduction and an activity for individuals to undertake in their own time.
Shared with the World by Mr Brett Lucas |
|
Working with threshold concepts
The object of this resource is to help colleagues in English and related subjects appreciate and work with a concept which brings together subject thinking and knowledge with educational thinking.
Shared with the World by Mr Brett Lucas |