Hazel Grove High School are currently looking for a dedicated Teacher of English and Media, who can contribute to our commitment to providing exceptional teaching and learning experiences. You will be responsible for delivering English and Media lessons that align with the appropriate curriculum standards, while maintaining high levels of teaching and learning. This post is suitable for both experienced teachers or newly qualified teachers.
“Once you learn to read you will be free forever.” - Fredrick Douglass
Our curriculum will endeavour to provide students with the powerful knowledge, which can too often be hidden from view. In doing so, our aim is to provide students with the knowledge to make the implicit, explicit. The powerful knowledge curriculum in English will be deliberately and coherently sequenced to take the shape of a chronological narrative; a narrative that aims to support pupils in making sense of both the literary canon and texts from across a rich, cultural spectrum of literature. In particular, students will be tasked with exploring the timeless and universal threads that run through and connect written texts, regardless of their place in history or their place of origin. The sequence of the curriculum also endeavours to ensure that the knowledge taught is rich; in that it is taught to be remembered by our students, not merely encountered.
“Digital natives are bombarded with vast volumes of information in today’s electronic society, which calls for an even greater emphasis on critical thinking and research skills.” – Timothy Van Slyke
Powerful knowledge in media studies starts from the understanding that everything presented in the media is a construction, shaped by the context it exists in. It is from this understanding that learners can analyse representations and in turn produce convincing media products. Media studies empowers students to become critical receivers of the media and question what they are faced with through the exploration of a diverse range of rich media texts. Through questioning and a diet of critical theories, learners develop a deeper understanding of media products, industries and audiences.
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