Materials Creation

Bespoke teaching materials for adult training, teacher training, and academic outreach programmes. Working independently or with your subject expert(s), I’ll create the materials and resources for lively hands-on sessions, using best practice process-teaching approaches.

Materials & resources

Completely original materials based on process-learning, using games, activities, and discussion to deepen and solidify understanding
Design and layout of materials included
Detailed teaching notes supplied for facilitators
All materials supplied as ready-to-go printables

If you would like, I can also deliver the inaugural workshop / course or present a showcase session of a selection of the materials to your team.

Contact me to discuss how I can help you and your group with materials creation.

Experience

BirdWords (EWA and Creative Multilingualism of the University of Oxford)

In conjunction with EWA and Creative Multilingualism of the University of Oxford, I worked with their subject expert to create five sessions to encourage engagement with bird studies and the language around them. The sessions were designed for use around the world and all needed to flow together or stand alone, and be age-flexible, locally oriented for anywhere in the world, multi-lingual, and resource-flexible. The completed project is available here.

Literary Analysis for French Baccalaureate

Using the new French Baccalaureate syllabus for English Literary Analysis, I created and delivered a two-week intensive course to teach French teachers the new subject expertise they required. This covered the eight core themes they needed to address in their teaching, vocabulary for literary analysis of both prose and poetry, and an introduction to 37 significant classic or contemporary literary works in English. It also took them through an unseen text to replicate their students’ experience and showcase teaching strategies they could adopt.

Regent flagship courses (Regent Oxford)

Working in conjunction with another Senior Teacher, I created two new flagship courses to the Head Office’s brief, for use across the Regent Group. This included creating new resources, printable materials, and teaching notes.

Oxford County Council Skills and Learning creative writing workshops

I created and delivered three eight-week half-day / evening courses, adapted to OCC requirements and student needs: Shape of Stories, Create Great Characters, and Imaginary Worlds (the latter a simplified version of the later Writers’ Greenhouse course).

The Writers’ Greenhouse

As the Writers’ Greenhouse, since 2011 I’ve created one 12-week course (Story Elements), four 8-week courses (Imaginary Worlds, Starting Points, Meddling with Poetry, and Writing in Style), and fourteen full-day workshops. I create two new full-day workshops each year and one new course approximately every two years.

Megan worked with me to create a series of five workshops on the ways we use language to know nature—specifically, in this case, birds. This was part of a multi-year project called Creative Multilingualism, funded by the AHRC. After creating a detailed lesson plan for teachers for each focus topic, Megan and I implemented the workshops during two conferences, in Oxford and London. It was a pleasure to work through the details with Megan, and to watch her extraordinary abilities to transform ideas into organized step-by-step lesson plans that other teachers can follow. Things get colour-coded, timing is worked out with precision, and fun materials are created to go with each workshop. Megan is gifted with pedagogical second sight for combining just enough back-and-forth between interactive group work, multi-sensory examples, lecture/explanation, and individual discovery/ writing. In the workshops, people laughed. They talked about the ideas generated as they left the room. Can't recommend Megan Kerr highly enough!

Felice S. Wyndham, Ph.D., www.narratinglandscapes.net
Ethnoecology Drector, the Ethno-ornithology World Atlas (EWAtlas.net)
Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford

Contact me to discuss how I can help you and your group with materials creation and to ask any questions.