Links to English teaching sites at the Guardian

Related reading

• The Machine Gunners — Teaching Activities, links and videos

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaul5qhenY0 BBC Schools Radio has produced an excellent scheme of work on The Machine Gunners, which can be accessed here.

• The Teachers’ Standards and English Teaching

  Some interesting ideas about educating English teachers in relation to Teaching Standards set in 2012… However, these standards are less emphasized now than when I wrote this article.

• Aesthetic Learning, Creative Writing and English Teaching

  ‘Aesthetic learning’ can be helpful for English teachers, because we are all ‘aesthetic learners’: we learn to appreciate the qualities of the worlds we inhabit, whether actual or virtual.

• Wilfred Owen’s poetry — a Prezi with links to YouTube explanations of the poems

  Wilfred Owen’s poetry and life on Prezi

• Mindfulness and English Teaching

  Is English a mindful subject? How can mindfulness help English teachers teach their subject? I argue that awareness of the present moment can help learners appreciate the qualities of literature.