English Meet 2024

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The first two English Meets in Dublin were a pleasure: like-minded teachers sharing good practice in a low-key friendly setting on an early-summer evening. At the bottom of this post there is a list of the kinds of things talked about, and you can also read reports on 2023 and 2022.

(Free) tickets available now.

So we’re going for a hat-trick, on the evening of Wednesday 1st May, at Whispering House, St Columba’s College, Dublin D16CH92 (the reception area for the two researchED Dublin conferences).

Presentations:

  • Miriam Barragry: Approaches to Creative Writing in the English Classroom

  • Michael Browne: Creating a Poetry Anthology

  • Annie Donnelly: Supporting students with dyslexia in the English classroom.

  • Kev Dowling: Teaching Film and Writing at Junior Cycle

  • Amy Earley: Encouraging students to engage with the page in plays and create scenes in a shoebox

  • Aoife Fleming: Effective Feedback in Senior Cycle English

  • Julian Girdham: The Comparative: a simple classroom approach to revision.

  • Rebecca Morrin: Literacy Word Builders

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.

English Meet 2023