The FE English Swap Shop

Programmes

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This event has now taken place. But you can access all the video-presentations and event related content below!

1. Welcome

A warm, warm welcome to the very first ‘FE English Swap Shop: By FE Teachers, For FE Teachers’ sponsored by touchconsulting Ltd. We are using the hashtags #FEswapShop #English for today so please tag the event and our sponsors (@touchcons_FE) into your social media posts.

You’ll find the agenda below including all timings and links for Zoom.

Right now, check out the welcome videos below then browse the agenda for the day. Please note that the three pathways (16-19 Pathway; Adult English; ESOL) will be running simultaneously throughout the day.

We recommend bookmarking this landing page, so you can pop back to it with ease throughout the day.

Welcome Video

Welcome to the FE English Swap Shop! – Check out a welcome video from Hollie Barnes in readiness for the day [2 mins: 37 secs].

What is an #ideasroom?

Have you seen ‘ideas room’ on the schedule but not sure what one is? Check out this video by @MarsMaths for more info..[3 mins: 29 secs]

2. Agenda

When?	Where?	What?
Block 1: 09:00 - 09:30
09:00 - 09:15	Zoom Room	Please feel free to join Chloë for a brief Zoom orientation, if you wish.
09:15 - 09:25	Main Zoom Room Meeting ID: 961 8454 8417 Passcode: not required	Join Chloë & Hollie for a welcome chat.
Block 2: 09:30 - 10:00 Workshops		For recordings of all workshops, scroll down to Section 4, 'Resources'.
09:30 - 10:00	16-19 Room	16-19 Pathway : Elizabeth Draper 'Tried and Tested Ideas : How to Make READING Happen in Further Education.' 'Levels of literacy indicate life-chances, life expectancy:.'Reading poverty’ and 'reading-shame' are regularly encountered in FE English classes. I am going to tell you my story of 5 years of work tackling these difficult aspects of our working lives 'head-on'. - Looking at how a positive reading culture can be created , not just within English classrooms but, importantly, across colleges as a whole.
09:30 - 10:00	Adult English Room	Adult English Pathway: Karen Gowlett 'Quality Questioning in the English classroom.' Why do we ask questions in our lessons? What’s a question you ask often and why? How do we create a thinking culture in class? Bring along your ideas: leave with a new question or technique to enhance thinking and questioning in your classroom.
09:30 - 10:00	ESOL Room	ESOL Pathway: Rachel Öner 'Using infographics to pracatice all four skills.' This session will examine how useful infographics are to the ESOL classroom. We will look at how infographics can be used from Entry level to Level 2, from basic conversation practice to encouraging critical thinking skills. The session should provide a solid base for tutors to want to further explore using infographics and how to exploit them to create tasks in reading, writing and speaking and listening. It will also discuss differentiation.
Block 3: 10:05 - 11:00 Teachmeet
Please note, all our teachmeets will be recorded and added to the PDN YouTube (bit.ly/PDNYoutube) after the event. However, please don’t let this discourage you from attending them live to support your peers as they share their top English tips!
10:05 - 11:00	16-19 Room	16-19 Pathway: Anne Chester 'Developing learners’ vocabularies: the power of lean.' Piers Alexander 'Creation of Concepts in GCSE Resit English.' Matt Gordon 'Contexts of slavery.'
10:05 - 11:00	Adult English Room	Adult English Pathway: Nicola Milton: 'Jamming with Jamboard' Eleanor Blair 'Using a mobile phone as a visualiser in GCSE English' Shelley Wilkinson 'A flipped exam'
10:05 - 11:00	ESOL Room	ESOL Pathway: Eve Shepherd 'BookWidgets', Sarah Robertshaw 'The Great ESOL Bake Off', Graeme Edwards 'Dialect Awareness' Laureal Lawrence 'Using the likert scale with pre-entry'
11:00 - 11:15	Break: please do get a cuppa, and take a break
Block 4: 11:15 - 11:45 Workshops
11:15 - 11:45	16-19 Room	16-19 Pathway: Josh Spears 'Supporting Students in Cultural Poverty' The need for creativity within society has never been greater and English Language at GCSE is how learners grow into their creative selves. However, imagination is under threat from cultural poverty, with more and more learners unable to access experiences in their own lives which impacts their progress and personal development. This talk aims to explore the how, why and what can be done to fight this.
11:15 - 11:45	Adult English Room	Adult English Pathway: Steph Gilford 'Thinking outside of the VLE' How can we make it easier for our adult learners to continue to learn online? How can we make the experience more organised, and use the tools and skills we’ve acquired ? A talk on how we can make online learning easy for adult learners as we move forward.
11:15 - 11:45	ESOL Room	ESOL Pathway: Jonny Kay 'Leadership in FE English: motivating and managing performance' With an enormously challenging 2020/21 coming to a close, attention turns to next year. This session will focus on strategies and innovations to tackle the challenges which await in 2021/22. Here, Jonny will share his approaches to improving attendance, managing student behaviour, motivating staff and approaches to support challenging staff.
Block 6: 11:50-12:45 Ideas Rooms.
For more information on Ideas Rooms, do check out this fantastic video from @MarsMaths
11:50-12:45	Zoom Room	Join us in the Main Zoom Room for a chance to all come together to collaborate, share and talk with all other English educators here today!
Block 7: 12:50 - 13:00 Close
12:50 - 13:00	Zoom Room	Closing talk from Hollie Barnes & Chloë Hynes Some final thoughts to takeaway from today, thank yous and a chance for you to feedback on your experience today.

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