English Meet 2025 — Julian Girdham

One of the pleasures of post-pandemic times has been having gatherings of English teachers on a May evening sharing practice and just … being together. So why not again, on:

Thursday 8th May 2025, 7.00-9.00pm (refreshments from 6.30pm)
Whispering House, St Columba’s College, Dublin 16, D16CH92.

Get in touch if you fancy presenting (15 minute presentations - see some examples below)

Lower down this post is a list of the topics which have come up in the first three years, and you can also read reports on 2024, 2023 and 2022.

(Free) tickets available now (and lower down). Speakers and topics will be put there, and here, when decided.

Previous topics:

Introducing Poetry Analysis to Weak Junior Cycle Students.
Encouraging reading among Junior pupils.
A quick overview of the problem of creating atmosphere.
The Writing Revolution: Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler.
Swiss Army Knife (exploding) quotations.
Senior Cycle poetry: linking texts.
An introduction to teaching Shakespeare.
Formative feedback in the classroom.
Promoting authentic expression in the Leaving Certificate.
Whole class feedback and live marking.
Perspective and narrative voices in short fiction.
Using quotations to think about texts.
Approaches to Creative Writing in the English Classroom
Creating a Poetry Anthology
Supporting students with dyslexia in the English classroom.
Teaching Film and Writing at Junior Cycle
Effective Feedback in Senior Cycle English
The Comparative: a simple classroom approach to revision.
Literacy Word Builders