Andrew McCallum
@AndrewEMC
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Director, English and Media Centre, author of Creativity and Learning in Secondary English (Routledge). Now posting only on Bluesky @andrewemc.bsky.social
Joined November 2013
I've gone across to Bluesky. My infrequent posting will just be there from now on. @andrewemc.bsky.social
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RT @BarbaraBleiman: This is an absolute must-read by the brilliant @DamsonEd! Some of us have been trying to make these points for a long…
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RT @EngMediaCentre: Spring course programme up and ready to book. Including the Spring Webinar Package, with access for all your department…
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RT @warwickmansell: Jaw is dropping afresh on reading this, even tho general position on Ofsted's misuse of research ev in these reviews is…
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RT @RealGeoffBarton: "Stifle talk and you stifle thinking. Stifle thinking and you stifle learning ... ": a terrific, uplifting account of…
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@BarbaraBleiman Brilliant blog, Barbara, and well done for speaking out. It's time to move on from the 'discourse of derision' used for so long to discredit + erroneously label sound, established practices
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RT @BarbaraBleiman: I offered some thoughts to the arguments about knowledge that blew up on X a few days ago. X isn't great for extended…
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@EngMediaCentre @thecockerill @NATEfeed Get in touch when you officially start - so pleased for you and for NATE
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RT @BarbaraBleiman: Terrific piece, opening up serious questions that go well beyond what to ‘keep in’, ‘add’ or ‘lose’ in curriculum refor…
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RT @BarbaraBleiman: At what point will govt sit up & take notice? GCSE English results are of critical importance to students, for future s…
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RT @EngMediaCentre: EMC CPD Online: Grammar – Getting the Balance Right at KS3 (6.11.24) Andrew cuts through the myths and misconceptions…
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RT @EngMediaCentre: EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Assessment – Principles & Practices (19.11.24) "I came away buzzing with ideas and a vision of h…
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RT @EngMediaCentre: EMC CPD Online: Audience with a GCSE Poet – Liz Berry, AQA Worlds and Lives (24.10.24) A chance to hear live from poet…
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@ahernahern @BarbaraBleiman We're not advocating just showing students texts. We're advocating getting students working on texts, noticing things in texts, big + small. Our concern is with the excessive focus on bottom up, component-led approaches + assumption that this is what 'some kids' need most
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@ahernahern @BarbaraBleiman I don't think we are. Most secondary English teaching should start with the composite whole, not the component part. Work at sentence level has its uses but as a relative minor strand. Starting with the component part too often strips the subject of meaning - in all kinds of ways
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@BarbaraBleiman @ahernahern @damyhill Absolutely the best research on teaching grammar + syntax. A shocking omission if anyone advocating ways to teach these does not reference + recognise the value and integrity of this work
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@ahernahern @BarbaraBleiman It can be. But all students by secondary are not uninitiated, even if they continue to struggle. To think so risks fetishising difficulty + disadvantage, basing a whole set of pedagogical principles on profound deficits that don't exist in that form
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Really interesting blog from @SocialistEdu which rightly locates Tory policy in the Black Papers of the 1970s. What the blog could have added was how deeply racist some of those papers were
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@ahernahern @BarbaraBleiman Yet research across the decades suggests looking for this is more reliable than working to tight set of marking criteria. Britton in the 60s, Sadler in the 80s, Dylan Wiliam in the 90s/00s, Bethan Marshall up to the present day. Look for the small stuff + you miss the point
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