Webinars, Conversations and Professional Development Archives

UKLA Conversations series: Story Making in Troubled Times

Jasen Booton and Lisa Stephenson discuss ‘What role does making stories and sharing stories have in troubled times?’

Webinars

UKLA Conversations Series: ‘Teaching Poetry’

Hear Rebecca Simpson Hargreaves talking with Christine Lockwood about the joys of teaching poetry.

UKLA Conversations Series: ‘Finding Critical Literacies’

UKLA Conversations Series: Online Teaching & Learning in ITE

Webinars

UKLA Webinar Series – Jennifer Rowsell, Affective Aperture: Exploring the role of photography in literacy research and teaching

This webinar offers ways of building literacy teaching and research around photography as a powerful emotional and intellectual way into meaning making.

UKLA Webinar Series – Julia Gillen, Social Media in the Early 20th Century

In this presentation with a Q&A, Julia Gillen explains why it is reasonable to call Edwardian picture postcards social media.

Webinars

UKLA Webinar Series – Navan Govender, Critical Literacy & Close Reading

In this video I explore how close reading in the secondary English classroom might be approached from a critical literacy perspective by engaging with language, literacy, and power.

UKLA Webinar Series – Sabine Little, Supporting Multilingualism in the Classroom

This talk explains why heritage language development is important, and how everyday school literacy practices can be adapted to include multilingualism.

UKLA Webinar Series – Debra Myhill, Grammar in the Spotlight

Improve your understanding of verb phrases and noun phrases

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Curriculum review and planning tool

The review and planning tool will help providers to support the development of a school curriculum as well as the English curriculum. The review format means that the materials can be used by tutors, schools, groups of schools or individuals as a means of identifying strengths and areas for attention and development.

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Reading and Writing Fact Cards: Professional Development Activities

UKLA has published key professional development activities to support the popular reading and writing fact cards. The activities are designed to support professional development in schools and will be invaluable to literacy leaders in running training and staff meetings. You can download cards on a range of topics, including Grammar, Spelling, Puncuation and Working with stories.

Webinars, Conversations and Professional Development