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Teaching poetry can be tricky even with the most willing students, but it can seem an impossible task when the focus is pre-twentieth century poetry, and the students are decidedly unenthusiastic. This challenge was taken up by one teacher, and his account of a case study involving six secondary pupils over a three-year period includes some impressive successes. Through journal responses to poems, and planned discussion in pairs and groups, pupils’ interpretations and analyses grew in their sophistication. Could ‘responsive teaching’, which allows readers to respond to the text freely before the teacher’s input, be the way to tackle the poetry problem? Find out more in this intriguing article. |
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| pre conference resources |
 Video clips and presentation slides from our previous pre conferences, are now available online.
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CERUKplus is the only free database of current education and children’s service research projects in the UK. CERUKplus would like to include practitioner research undertaken as part of masters degree courses or levels 3 + 4 of the Teacher Learning Academy in 2010, and would like to hear from practitioners interested in doing so. We are committed to supporting teachers and lecturers in their research work and building connections between communities of practice. |
| research engaged schools |
 The contribution of research to school improvement has been a matter of considerable debate. It is widely argued that educational practice should be more evidence based, but it is acknowledged that this is not easy to achieve. |
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