Reflecting on who I am and where I want to be…
As a lifelong lover of literature, I was drawn to this subject and the immense possibilities it could provide to my future career. Coming from a secondary English background, I already felt fairly confident in my ability to foster a love of reading and use literature to open new avenues for student engagement, empathy and learning.…
Fiction is a powerful tool to enhance learning. Embedding it into lessons supports the acquisition of curriculum content and outcomes, by presenting information in engaging and readily accessible ways, but also enhances it, by further expanding student understanding of key content at the same time as embedding valuable cross-curricular concepts. Using literature as a pathway…