This essay explores the creativity and learning that can take place when students are given the opportunity to go beyond the GCSE set poems and create their own poetry anthologies. I argue that in the process of creating a poetry anthology, students are encouraged to engage on a deeper and ...
My old English teacher surprised me when he expressed support for the alterations: “Of course you run the risk of it becoming purely a memory game. But then we already tell pupils to learn the poems so they don’t waste time flicking through the anthology in exams.” Memorising the poems...
The study's author, English teacher and ESIS founder Rachel Fenn, said it's not enough for exam boards to expand their set text lists in an effort to diversify - texts need to be replaced otherwise teachers will continue to lean on old favourites. The research suggests that on...
Changing EnglishDymoke, S. (2002) `The dead hand of the exam: The impact of the NEAB anthology on poetry teaching at GCSE', Changing English, 9 (1), 85-93.Dymoke, S. (2002). The dead hand of the exam: The impact of the NEAB anthology on poetry teaching at GCSE. Changing ...