The Trouble with English and How to Address It: A Practical Guide to Implementing a Concept-Led Curriculum

by Zoe Helman, Sam Gibbs

This essential book will help English teachers to address the challenges and opportunities in creating a powerful, knowledge-rich, concept-led curriculum, which draws on lived experience and engages with cognitive science and other educational research. It explores persistent problems in the teaching of English, why we have struggled to address them and how we can go about creating a curriculum which enables all pupils to achieve. Written by experienced English teachers and teacher educators, the book empowers teachers to reclaim their subject as one which has the power to change lives, and to deliver it with passion and authenticity. The Trouble with English and How to Address It To equip leaders and classroom teachers with everything they might need to improve their provision, this book provides a forensic account of what to change, why and how, moving from the big picture into fine details about what we might see in a highly successful English classroom.

182 pages, Paperback

Published February 10, 2022

Reviews

[Kirsty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestly think this might be the best book I’ve read on teaching English through a conceptual lens - perfect for what I need right now.

[Phil Mc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting, thought-provoking and of practical use.