Lesley Day

On this episode of Why Teach?, English teacher Lesley Day further explores - and answers - that always-tricky question from students: "Yeah, but what are we learning this for?" Lesley talks about how the process of building and applying skills training and drills in PE class can be brought across to other classes, demonstrating for students their longer-term learning goals. We talk about 'Black out poetry' and how Lesley uses the process to teach theme in narrative to a Year 11 English class, and reverse engineers that process for the subsequent poetry analysis unit.

If you're a new English teacher, an experienced one, or looking forward to becoming one, you won't want to miss this episode.

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