Subject Knowledge Audit (SKA): PGCE and GTP Secondary English 2012-13 Name:

This SKA document will be updated throughout the year and checked with your tutor at each review point on the course so it is important that it is a working document and that you update it regularly- it is an ever E X P A N D I N G document! Add to it whenever you have read or taught next texts or developed any of the skill areas and perhaps use a new colour and record the date each time you update as you will be able to see clearly (and so will your mentor) which areas you are developing. Entries need to be dated and the SKA needs to be shown to your mentor especially at induction and prior to review times at the university. In preparation for reviews, you will be asked to upload your SKA onto the English VLE.

Use the National Curriculum for English, KS3 & 4 (QCA, 2007), & GCSE/A Level syllabuses, e.g. identify key texts to read & details of knowledge to be acquired in English Literature, Language, Media and Drama (practical).Use symbols: U – unconfident B – basic G – good/QTS Standard S – strong - in each box

CURRICULUM CONTENT
Based on NC & GCSE/A Level specifications / July - indicate current level of knowledge: courses/university qualifications, work or other experience and personal reading,including pre-course work.Formal updates need to be made prior to each review:
Review 1 – December
Review 2 – January
Review 3 – March
Review 4 – end of course June
Speaking & Listening
Presentations, using visual aids: IWB, PowerPoint/
MovieMaker. Effective use of Pair and Group talk.
Drama (practical)
Knowledge and experience of using drama approaches & techniques: hot-seating, conscience alley, tableaux, forum theatre…
Drama texts read/studied from a range of periods
Friel, Pinter, Stoppard, Miller, Jacobean tragedy…
Reading
Children and young adult lit. See KS2/3 list & GCSE texts
Fiction 20/21C
Including contemporary texts
Fiction 19/18 C
Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Gaskell, Conan Doyle...
Texts from different cultures and traditions (poetry, prose, drama) Walcott, Desai, Agard, Nichols, Angelou…
Literary Heritage:
e.g. Shakespeare
Brontes, Dickens, Coleridge
Greek Myths
Orwell, TS Eliot.
Poetry 20/21 C
Plath, Heaney, Duffy, Armitage…
Poetry pre-20C e.g
Victorian
Romantic, 18th C
Metaphysical
Elizabethan
Medieval & Old Eng
Reading for Meaning
Different critical approaches, e.g:
Feminist, Marxist
Poststructuralist
Postcolonial
Psychoanalytic…
Non-fiction and multimodal texts:
journalism, travel, essays, reportage, literary non-fiction, biography, film, radio TV, computer games.
ICT and English
Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, MovieMaker, Excel, internet; electronic journal searches.
Standard English
Variations in written & spoken SE; influences includ. technology. History of SE as world lang.
Multilingualism/EAL
Linguistic knowl:
Word classes & their grammatical functions.
Structure of phrases, clauses & sentences: simple, compound/complex
Paragraph structure
Structure of whole texts: cohesion and coherence. Structure & conventions of different genres.
(For A Level Lang: sociolinguistics, lang. acquisition, stylistics, etc)
Creativity with written, spoken and visual language. Do you see yourself as a writer? Creative, short-story, poetry, personal/academic writing; art/design; drama & oral performances. Music or dance.
Cross-curricular knowledge/exp in Arts, sport, etc.

Record of a range of texts written specifically for pupils of secondary school age – 30 or more – e x p a n d as you go!

Title / Author / Themes/Commentary / Key Passages and Teaching Ideas / Reading bridges/links to other texts for contrast, comparison, or a more challenging read
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Pre-course subject knowledge background
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University awarding degree
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Subject/Class
Relevant subject qualification at O-level/GCSE/CSE or other quals / Subject and Areas Studied / Grade
Relevant qualifications at A-level or equivalent / Subject and Areas Studied
Include topics studied, and other related subjects / Grade
Degree & post-graduate qualifications/ subject experience / Subject and Areas Studied
Include modules/areas studied with a brief synopsis of what was covered / Year
Please note any further subject experience you have had, e.g. drama, media, editing newspaper, work etc
Please note any particular interest you have in any aspect of your subject.
Mentors from both placements to see and make any comments with dates.
Agreed/amended or comments by Curriculum Tutor
Dates

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