I gave the keynote presentation at the Irish National Organisation of Teachers of English annual conference in October 2019 in Portlaoise. It’s below (I hope plenty of it doesn’t make sense, since it depends on the commentary).
‘The Building Blocks of the English Classroom’ looked at vocabulary, how cognitive science can assist us, ways of increasing reading, and how modelling can help.
A new venture for Thursday 23rd April 2020 (Shakespeare's birthday): an evening dedicated to sharing ideas about teaching Leaving Certificate English.
Venue: Whispering House at our school, www.stcolumbas.ie (which was the venue on October 5th for the first-ever Irish researchED) in South Dublin. 7.00pm to 9.00pm. It will be free to attend, but will be ticketed (ticketing via EventBrite later down the line). See the venue here.
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