24TRA287 Revising and thinking about 'King Lear' for the Leaving Certificate
Date: Wednesday, 16th October 2024
Time: 7 pm - 8 pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Target Audience: Senior Cycle English teachers
This webinar for teachers of post-primary English will:
- Outline effective ways to revise 'King Lear' in class in the final months before the Leaving Certificate exam and suggest how students can use strategies to exercise their own critical thinking.
- Provide practical strategies for students' independent work.
- Look at the particular challenges of this play as a single text.
- Suggest online and reading resources to widen teachers' own knowledge of the text.
Bio of Presenter: Julian Girdham
Julian Girdham is an experienced English teacher and conference presenter. He also organises researchED Dublin, a major international educational conference on evidence-based practice, which took place in his school, St Columba's College in Dublin, in 2019 and 2022, as well as an annual summer 'English Meet' for teachers of Leaving Certificate English. His resources are at www.juliangirdham.com.
Course Details
| Course Start Date / Time | 16-10-2024 7:00 pm |
| Course End Date / Time | 16-10-2024 8:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 16-10-2024 7:15 pm |
| Available place | 1000 |
| Fee | Free |
| Number Hours | 1 |
| Speaker | Julian Girdham |
| Location | Online |