The Water Replies : What do you look for in a teaching resource?

Teachers of all kinds are invited to this informal discussion, as research for upcoming publication A Guide to Teaching Contemporary Poetry'

4pm - 5pm : Zoom

Mon 24th August

The Water Replies : What do you look for in a teaching resource?

Join us for an informal discussion regarding the challenges of teaching contemporary poetry, curriculum checkpoints faced within creative writing and what you look for in a successful teaching resource, as we develop upcoming publication, A Guide to Teaching Contemporary Poetry.

Teachers from all subjects and year groups are invited to join these sessions.

These sessions have been made possible through support from Royal Opera House Bridge.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts which will directly help us to deliver an accessible, inspiring teaching resource.

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As part of Estuary 2021, our mass-participatory project The Water Replies invites people from across South Essex and North Kent to get involved in creating a collective response, capturing the unique relationship between the great Thames Estuary and the lives of those living along the coastline.

In place of the creative training sessions we had planned before COVID-19's limitations, we are pleased to be developing ‘A Guide To Teaching Contemporary Poetry’ - a publication for teachers, guided and inspired by two amazing poets, Selina Nwulu and Caroline Bird.

We invite you to share your insights and feedback on this publication as it develops, in order to provide a resource which will offer support and inspiration for an often overlooked part of the creative writing curriculum - contemporary poetry.

This publication will feature questions, provocations, poems and suggestions which you can put to use quickly within your classroom, applicable for primary, secondary, SEN and HE classes. To accompany the book, we will also have a pack of worksheets available to download for free online, with resources suitable for a range of ages and abilities. We invite teachers and students to submit creative responses to be exhibited at Estuary 2021, using our poetry guide and digital worksheets as inspiration.

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‘A Guide to Teaching Contemporary Poetry’ will be released in the Autumn term of 2020.

To receive a FREE copy (printed or PDF), please contact:

Metal (for South Essex teachers) : paige@metalculture.com

Cement Fields (for North Kent teachers) : dzifa@cementfields.org