We asked students in the University of the West of England’s PGCE Secondary English Group to select articles from The Use of English they think will be of use to trainee and newly qualified teachers.
Selection criteria decided by the group:
- Does the article ‘speak to me’ as a new teacher about English? About education?
- Does it introduce me to an author I have not yet read but know I might teach next year?
- Does it give me a new way into a text that I already know?
- Would it have helped me with a PGCE course essay and I wish I had seen it earlier?!
We are pleased to be able to make these available as a free resource.
Authors and Texts
- David Almond and the First Person Narrative: Roger Calvert (UE 60.3 Summer 2009)
- David Almond, Part 2: Roger Calvert (UE 61.1 Autumn 2009)
- William Blake (1757-1827) London (1793): Peter Cash (UE 63.2 Spring 2012)
- Emily Brontë and Sir Walter Scott: Ian Brinton (UE 60.2 Spring 2009)
- Wuthering Heights and Lord David Cecil: Paul Fletcher (UE 60.2 Spring 2009)
- Teaching Dickens in the Modern Classroom: Laura-Jane Evans-Jones (UE 64.1 Autumn 2012)
- Great Expectations Realised or Disappointed? Using Screen Adaptations in the Classroom: Natalie Fong (UE 66.3 Summer 2015)
- Learning, Literature and Remembrance in English Classrooms: Ann-Marie Einhaus (UE 65.3 Summer 2014)
- Re-reading and Reading Ahead: teaching the literature of the First World War afresh: Susie Wilson (UE 65.3 Summer 2014)
- Teaching the Poetry of the First World War at Key Stage 4: Vivien Whelpton (UE 65.2 Spring 2014)
- A Close Reading of Seven Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Part 1: Peter Cash (UE 60.2 Spring 2009)
- A Close Reading of Seven Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Parts 2 and 3: Peter Cash (UE 61.1 Autumn 2009)
- A Close Reading of Seven Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Part 4: Peter Cash (UE 61.2 Spring 2010)
- Shakespeare’s True Counterfeit: Henry IV Part I: Paul Dean (UE 63/2 Spring 2012)
- Shakespeare and Cultural Literacy: Catherine M.S. Alexander (UE 64.3 Summer 2013)
- Have You Ever Thought of Teaching . . . Zadie Smith’s White Teeth?: Pamela Bickley (UE 63.1 Autumn 2011)
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Of Mice and Men (1937): Peter Cash (UE 63.3 Summer 2012)
- In Praise of the Short Story: Jenny Stevens (UE 64.3 Summer 2013)
- Love and Marriage Across the ‘Borderline’: A journey through the multiethnic classics 1590-1950: Robert Jeffcoate (UE 62.1 Autumn 2010)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: Peter Barry (UE 65.1 Autumn 2013)
- Why I Like Teaching KS3 Students about Robin Hood, King Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf and the Heroes of Classical Myth: Vanessa Vasey (UE 62.2 Spring 2011)
- Why Teach Poetry?: Ian Brinton (UE 62.3 Summer 2011)
- Assessment: A Good Servant but a Poor Master?: John Haddon (UE 61.3 Summer 2010)
Pedagogy
- Assessment: A Good Servant but a Poor Master?: Rob Penman (UE 63.2 Spring 2012)
- Assessment and APP: Thoughts on a Journey: Jane Davies and Jackie Easter (UE 63.2 Spring 2012)
- Assessment of English at Key Stage 4: An Imaginative and Creative View: Gabrielle Cliff Hodges (UE 64.2 Spring 2013)
- Away with Words: Teaching Creativity in the Classroom: Matthew Oliver (UE 63.3 Summer 2012)
- Back to the Future and Forward Again: the new GCSE English Literature: Keith Geary (UE 66.2 Spring 2015)
- Battling Against the Tide: the Perspective of a PGCE English Tutor on the Changes in ITE: Judith Kneen (UE 63.2 Spring 2012)
- David Holbrook, 1923-2011: A personal tribute: Martin Hayden
- ‘Pondering Life by Metaphor’: David Holbrook and the Work of English Teaching: Adrian Barlow (UE 63.2 Spring 2012)
- ‘The Land of Lost Content?’ A Teacher’s View of the Return to Linear A Levels: Carol Atherton (UE 65.1 Autumn 2013)
- Learning to Teach English: Laura-Jane Evans-Jones (UE 63.2 Spring 2012)
- Reclaiming English: Geoff Barton (UE 63.2 Spring 2012)
- Reclaiming Our Pedagogical Territory:: Yvonne Williams (UE 64.2 Spring 2013)
- Taking Back the Reins: the new English Language GCSE: Carol Atherton (UE 66.2 Spring 2015)
- TalkTalk then WriteWrite: Karen John (UE 63.3 Summer 2012)
- Three Perspectives from a Newly Qualified Teacher: Aimee Rhead (UE 60.1 Autumn 2008)
- Transition from Year 6 to Year 7 in the English Department: Gill Parker (UE 62.2 Spring 2011)
- University Learning in Schools: Taking PhD Research into the Classroom: Katie Clemmey and Dr Mary Henes (UE 66.1 Autumn 2014)
- What are HE Institutions Looking for from A Level English Literature? Steve Watts (UE 65.1 Autumn 2013)