Date:     Tuesday 27th January 2026
Time:     7.00 - 8.00 pm
Venue:  Online via Zoom

Target Audience: Junior Cycle English Teachers

This one-hour webinar will explore the development of writing skills in the English classroom, with an emphasis on sharing scaffolded approaches to writing which may help students to appreciate the ‘craft’ of writing. It is aimed at Junior Cycle and Transition Year levels of teaching.

Bio of Presenter: Selena Wilkes

Selena has been a teacher since 1989. She was an SEC examiner and advising examiner in Higher Level English for twenty four years and an advisor in English and literacy with PDST for three years. She currently teaches English, Geography and Chinese in New Cross College, Finglas, Dublin, and lectures in The School of Education PME programme in UCD. Her hobbies include scuba-diving and boring people with photographs of her dogs.