The Guardian – Holly Welham
“It’s hard to say why I decided to become a teacher. It might sound strange, but it just seemed to come naturally. I knew early on it was what I wanted to do and I went straight to teacher training college after school. You can’t beat the feeling of seeing something click for a pupil. I’ve been involved in the Bradford primary media literacy project since it began three years ago. Along with a handful of other teachers, I was asked to embed film into literacy lessons and track whether it had an impact on results. Initially, the idea was to use it to develop writing skills, but I quickly noticed that it had a massive impact on reading as well. The children were using their reasoning skills to analyse films, and it had a positive effect on their comprehension of texts. Before we introduced the initiative we were getting average progress in reading and writing, but now the children have achieved above the expected progress.”(more)