Teaching English

Phil is Head of Secondary Education within the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. His previous role in the faculty was Head of Professional Development, where he had strategic responsibility for the professional development of the whole education and training workforce at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. He has also worked in the faculty as Head of Humanities, responsible for Secondary and Key Stage 2/3 initial teacher training in English, Geography, History, Modern Foreign Languages, Music and RE.Prior to coming into higher education, Phil taught English for twenty years in north-west secondary schools, including ten years as Head of English. In 2009, he co-authored the Sage Publications book ′Teaching English: Developing as a Reflective Secondary Teacher′.Phil has an MSc in Education Management, is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and of NATE. He is currently working towards an EdD, where the working title of his thesis is: ′An Exploration into the Gendered Subjectivities of Male Trainee Teachers: Discourses of Masculine Identity at Work′.

′My entry into the teaching profession would have been a whole lot easier if I′d had access to this text. This book is both informative and deeply sane. Intelligent, practical and eminently sensible, and it will help to guide many a beginning teacher through their first few years in the profession - English Drama Media

• English Teachers and English Teaching - Phil RigbyPlanning for Learning - Carol EvansMore Than One Way to Teach a Lesson - Peter WoolnoughManaging Learning, Managing Learners - Lynne WarhamMonitoring Performance and Securing Progress - Alyson MidgleyTeaching Different Pupils, Teaching Different Abilities - Phil RigbyCatering for an Assessment-Driven Curriculum - Peter WoolnoughPSHE: Developing the Whole Child Through English - Carol EvansUsing ICT in English - Lynne WarhamBeyond ITT: What Next? - Carol Evans and Peter Woolnough