Based on the latest developments in educational and linguistic research, the course is designed to help teachers who:

• want to explore interesting and engaging methods for teaching grammar in relation to a range of texts, genres and styles;
• want to learn about recent developments in stylistics and how this can be incorporated into a meaningful grammar pedagogy;
• want usable and accessible teaching ideas to take back into their own classrooms;
• want to maintain and develop their students’ KS2 grammatical knowledge.

You will receive an email with the invitation and instructions a week before the course starts.

Course Description

This course is an interactive workshop, delivered online over half a day, with plenty of time for discussion and questions.

You'll explore various aspects of English grammar in relation to a range of literary and non-literary texts, and explore ways to integrate this into your own teaching.

You’ll see how knowledge about grammar can be used as a tool to analyse texts. This approach, using clear criteria and a consistent toolset, provides you with the means to analyse a wide range of texts in the classroom. 

This course is completely tailored to the 2014 UK National Curriculum, so you can be confident that you'll learn about English grammar as specified in the curriculum. 

The course aims to help you:

• understand methods, approaches and principles for teaching grammar in context;
• be able to apply grammatical knowledge in analysing a range of literary and non-literary texts;
• understand how grammar works as a meaning-making resource;
• feel confident in the methods used to analyse English grammar, and use that confidence to enthuse your students in the classroom

Who this course is for

This course is designed for primary and secondary school teachers who wish to explore ideas for applying and integrating grammar and knowledge about language into their teaching. This course presupposes that you have some basic grammatical knowledge, perhaps as a result of participating on our other course, English Grammar for Teachers (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifelearning/courses/english-grammar-for-teachers). Before taking Teaching English Grammar in Context we recommend that you explore the content and glossary on www.englicious.org (free sign-up).

The English Grammar for Teachers course is designed to build confidence in subject knowledge. Teaching English Grammar in Context is designed to apply that subject knowledge. If you feel you have very little or no explicit knowledge of English grammar, we recommend that you take the English Grammar for Teachers course first. 

Benefits of taking this course

For teachers

• You'll build confidence in teaching grammar and understand how to integrate grammatical knowledge into your own lessons and schemes of work;
• You’ll explore an accessible and enabling pedagogy for the teaching of grammar;
• You'll meet other teachers and discuss ideas and issues;
• You’ll be taught by UCL experts in grammar and educational linguistics.

For schools

• Your teaching staff will be up-to-date with innovative methods for teaching grammar, informed by the latest research in stylistics, grammar and literary linguistics;
• Your staff will be confident in the classroom and able to engage and enthuse pupils in grammar as part of the curriculum;
• Your school will be meeting the requirements of each Key Stage in the National Curriculum. 

For pupils

• Pupils will learn about grammar in a fun and applied way;
• They'll learn how grammar works as a meaning-making resource;
• They can use Englicious to practise what they've learnt and test their knowledge;
• They can improve their confidence in grammar; 
• Englicious will help pupils improve their GCSE and A-level results. 

Note that a certificate of attendance is available for those who request it.

This training session will be delivered on Microsoft Teams from 09:30 to 13:00 on the advertised date.