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This is the tale of life lived large, a collection of uproarious
and often moving stories spanning 60 years, from Geoff's youth as a
clothes obsessed Jewish suedehead, hanging out in Tottenham
dancehalls, via straight Bowie Boy frequenting London's gay clubs,
gender confusion in Manhattan's Studio 54, and on to huge career
success as a screenwriter. I have been a fly-pitcher working out of
a suitcase, a kitchen porter at Jewish functions, and flogged suits
to Nigerians down Brick Lane market. I was the singer in a
much-loved culty punk band the Leyton Buzzards, a floppy-haired pop
star in Modern Romance, a songwriter, and record producer. I wrote
a gay anthem for John Waters drag queen muse Divine, worked as
journalist and restaurant critic for style magazines The Face and
Arena, before becoming a successful writer and producer of TV
comedy. I then wrote a couple of films, one of which, Kinky Boots'
became a Tony Award winning Broadway stage show. With a cast
ranging from local oddballs to international celebrities, Geoff
Deane's unique take on the world is only matched by his
extraordinary use of language which combines Cockney rhyming slang
with Yiddish and a smattering of Polari
This practical book is chiefly intended to help English teachers
tackle an area of the new English programme that causes anxiety and
about which a large proportion are still uncertain: grammar.
Grammar has been an uncertain classroom topic for many years;
taught often as a duty, without real progression. In this book, the
latest knowledge about grammar is treated as a central component of
the meaning making process, in both reading and writing. Pupils can
become better readers and write with greater confidence and control
as a result of using this approach to grammar. Teachers of other
subjects may also benefit from knowing how to integrate some
grammatical teaching into the textual interactions of their
lessons.
Being able to read well is one of the most important literacy
requirements in our society. It is fundamental to almost all
secondary school subjects and the English programme in particular.
The new Key Stage 3 focus on teaching reading compels us to find
exciting ways to engage young people with texts that they will
continue with and develop themselves.
This text supplements the training currently being offered to all
secondary English departments. It offers a view of the place of the
English "strand" in the overall Key Stage 3 strategy and gives
support to English departments in their preparations for a new way
of working. It aims to encourage English teachers to review their
current schemes of work, offering suggestions for more substantial
teaching and learning modules, as well as practical ideas for
classroom use and recommended resources.;The book: interprets and
explains the NLS document for busy practitioners; reinforces the
messages of the National Literacy Strategy (NLS); spells out the
expectations of the framework and offers guidance on how to fulfil
them; and describes and explains the types of teaching methods to
improve students' learning.
This revised and updated edition takes into account the greater
recognition of language users in schools and the working parties
which have been set up to enable the more able to enjoy
opportunities to display and develop their special talents. This
new edition also explores models of language learning and offers
some strands of linguistic development on which teachers of
English/literacy can build more specific developmental intentions.
This book will help teachers recognize, challenge and support
children who show advanced skills in reading and writing so that
they can enable them to achieve their full potential. Through
exploring effective ways in which pupils can be assisted to develop
linguistically, teachers will be better prepared for planning
appropriately differentiated activities for these pupils. Areas
covered include methods of challenging and improving able readers
and writers, and learning from alternative text sources.
The book will be particularly helpful to language coordinators in
primary schools, heads of English departments and teachers of
English in secondary schools. It will also be of interest to
parents of able language users.
Focusing on how teachers can improve the ways in which they plan
their lessons, this book demonstrates how careful planning allows
the further development of learning approaches. The author presents
a clear understanding of how these approaches can be used by the
teacher to assess themselves and their students learning through:
careful consideration of how certain approaches to learning can
improve a student's grasp of reading, writing, speaking and
listening discussions on how theories and research from leading
experts can be applied in the classroom advice on how to use
government strategies and ultimately work beyond them to develop
learning in the classroom an examination of learning for children
of different abilities. Helping teachers to develop good practice
and understanding of learning in a familiar subject context, this
book is essential for all those concerned in the teaching of
secondary English.
This revised and updated edition takes into account the greater
recognition of language users in schools and the working parties
which have been set up to enable the more able to enjoy
opportunities to display and develop their special talents. This
new edition also explores models of language learning and offers
some strands of linguistic development on which teachers of
English/literacy can build more specific developmental intentions.
This book will help teachers recognize, challenge and support
children who show advanced skills in reading and writing so that
they can enable them to achieve their full potential. Through
exploring effective ways in which pupils can be assisted to develop
linguistically, teachers will be better prepared for planning
appropriately differentiated activities for these pupils. Areas
covered include methods of challenging and improving able readers
and writers, and learning from alternative text sources. The book
will be particularly helpful to language coordinators in primary
schools, heads of English departments and teachers of English in
secondary schools. It will also be of interest to parents of able
language users.
This book will supplement the training currently being offered to
all secondary English departments. It offers a view of the place of
the English 'strand' in the overall Key Stage 3 strategy and gives
support to English departments in their preparations for a new way
of working. It will encourage English teachers to review their
current schemes of work, offering suggestions for more substantial
teaching and learning modules, as well as practical ideas for
classroom use and recommended resources. The book interprets and
explains the NLS document for busy practitioners; reinforces the
messages of the National Literacy Strategy (NLS); spells out the
expectations of the framework and offer guidance on how to fulfil
them; and describes and explains the types of teaching methods to
improve students' learning. This book includes many practical ideas
for classroom activities and offers direct support for the less
confident English teacher. The book is equally valuable to students
and practicing teachers.
This book outlines several approaches to reading which challenge
former classroom practices. It is through these approaches that all
students - from reluctant boys to the most able of either gender -
can continue to grow as readers and develop their readiness to seek
meaning in texts.
Focusing on how teachers can improve the ways in which they plan
their lessons, this book demonstrates how careful planning allows
the further development of learning approaches. The author presents
a clear understanding of how these approaches can be used by the
teacher to assess themselves and their students' learning through:
careful consideration of how certain approaches to learning can
improve a student's grasp of reading, writing, speaking and
listening discussions on how theories and research from leading
experts can be applied in the classroom advice on how to use
government strategies and ultimately work beyond them to develop
learning in the classroom an examination of learning for children
of different abilities. Helping teachers to develop good practice
and understanding of learning in a familiar subject context, this
book is essential for all those concerned in the teaching of
secondary English.
This Brief provides a theoretical and conceptual development of a
new Risk Assessment Toolbox (RAT) for the early detection of
violent extremists. It is based on a neurocognitive perspective,
conceptualized as 'neuroplasticity-in-action' arising from
brain-based neural patterns expressed in mind-based cognitive
pathways likely to form a mind-set of violent extremism. This
neurocognitive-based Risk Assessment Toolbox (RAT) is comprised of
two distinct components: a cognitive indicators instrument that
serves as an early detection checklist for trained practitioners,
and a software visualisation program. The Brief includes: A
framework of contemporary approaches to the risk assessment of
violence as well as the background context for the current research
project on 'violent extremism' and its related concepts of
'terrorism' and 'radicalisation,' out of which the RAT was
developed. A detailed overview of RAT and a pilot case study
experiment to highlight the practical value and utility of this
neurocognitive Risk Assessment Toolbox. Preliminary research
findings of a study conducted with a sample of recognized experts
(academics and practitioners) in several countries around the
world, to fine tune and validate the risk parameters of the two
components that constitute RAT (Risk Assessment Toolbox). The
current stage of development of RAT as a practitioner-based system
for the early detection of potentially violent extremists as well
as its strategic intelligence implications for using a
neurocognitive risk assessment approach to violent extremism is
discussed. Research limitations and plans for future research
studies. This work will be of interest to researchers in
Criminology and Criminal Justice interested in studying violent
extremism, terrorism and crime prevention and intervention and
policing, as well as researchers in related fields of Forensic
Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Work or Social
Intervention.
This practical book is chiefly intended to help English teachers
tackle an area of the new English programme that causes anxiety and
about which a large proportion are still uncertain: grammar.
Grammar has been an uncertain classroom topic for many years;
taught often as a duty, without real progression. In this book, the
latest knowledge about grammar is treated as a central component of
the meaning making process, in both reading and writing. Pupils can
become better readers and write with greater confidence and control
as a result of using this approach to grammar. Teachers of other
subjects may also benefit from knowing how to integrate some
grammatical teaching into the textual interactions of their
lessons.
'Geoff Dean's English for Gifted and Talented Students 11-18 is a
principled and pragmatic book that will provide Heads of Department
with a foundation in this important area of curriculum development'
- English Drama Media 'The really surprising thing about Geoff
Dean's book is that you come away from it with more than you
expected....[This] book shows the English teacher how to plan for
and deliver those life-changing moments in the classroom' - G &
T Update Includes CD-Rom `This is a sourcebook of ideas and gives
valuable information about the latest research on learning and
teaching, as well as signposting the way forward in providing for
the most able in English. It recognises the questions posed by new
technologies, and gives guidance on how to harness these changes to
help equip talented young people for life in the twenty first
century' - Jude Brigley, Director of Learning and Teaching at
Cardiff High School, and Chair of NACE CYMRU Are you stuck for ways
to stretch your best English students? By focusing on what excites
and motivates all learners, this book provides you with a clear
guide to ensuring sound provision for your gifted and talented
students. Included is advice on: o how to identify more able
students o what to do to get other staff on board o successful
strategies for working with more able students o using ICT
effectively in lessons and activities o how to measure students'
progress o personalised learning There is an accompanying CD which
contains photocopiable material which will help you plan your
lessons and departmental strategy.
'Geoff Dean's English for Gifted and Talented Students 11-18 is a
principled and pragmatic book that will provide Heads of Department
with a foundation in this important area of curriculum development'
- English Drama Media 'The really surprising thing about Geoff
Dean's book is that you come away from it with more than you
expected....[This] book shows the English teacher how to plan for
and deliver those life-changing moments in the classroom' - G &
T Update Includes CD-Rom `This is a sourcebook of ideas and gives
valuable information about the latest research on learning and
teaching, as well as signposting the way forward in providing for
the most able in English. It recognises the questions posed by new
technologies, and gives guidance on how to harness these changes to
help equip talented young people for life in the twenty first
century' - Jude Brigley, Director of Learning and Teaching at
Cardiff High School, and Chair of NACE CYMRU Are you stuck for ways
to stretch your best English students? By focusing on what excites
and motivates all learners, this book provides you with a clear
guide to ensuring sound provision for your gifted and talented
students. Included is advice on: o how to identify more able
students o what to do to get other staff on board o successful
strategies for working with more able students o using ICT
effectively in lessons and activities o how to measure students'
progress o personalised learning There is an accompanying CD which
contains photocopiable material which will help you plan your
lessons and departmental strategy.
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Geoff Dean, George Dean
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