Teacher CPD · Secondary Schools

Teaching LCA English and Communications

A course for teachers of LCA English and Communications, including teachers who come to it from History, Business, Art or another subject. It starts with who LCA students are and how to rebuild their relationship with reading and writing, how to cut reading load without cutting the challenge, and how to build oral confidence through talk in every lesson. It walks all four modules, maps the seventeen Key Assignments across two years, and shows how to take a Key Assignment from first draft to finished piece and verify a Communication Portfolio. You plan exam preparation into ordinary lessons for the written and oral examinations, which together carry twelve of the subject's sixteen credits. Eleven of the fifteen lessons show a real student lesson from the Coding Ireland LCA English and Communications course.
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€39
Enrolment per teacher
What's included
  • Self paced
  • Online course
  • Step-by-step lessons
  • Certificate from Coding Ireland

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Where English and Communications sits in LCA, what it is assessed on, and an honest measurement of where you are starting from. Participants locate the subject in the programme, state the 16-credit assessment structure precisely, and complete a baseline self-efficacy audit across the five areas the course develops.

Welcome, Confidence Audit and the Lead Learner Mindset for the LCA English Classroom
LCA English at a Glance: Modules, Key Assignments, Credits

Teaching reading and writing to students they have already failed, putting a real text in front of the class anyway, and building oral confidence as an everyday habit rather than an examination block. Participants leave with a repertoire of literacy-first moves and a redesigned lesson opening of their own.

Students Who Have Stopped Reading and Writing, and Repairing the Relationship
Putting a Text in Front of Them Anyway: Reading Load, Read-aloud and the Reading Interactives
Talk as the Everyday Mode: Building Oral Confidence in Every Lesson

What each of the four modules actually asks for, how its units build toward its Key Assignments, and where it is easy to plan past something. Participants leave with a worked plan for the module they will teach first, and a clear sense of content areas that carry disproportionate examination weight.

M1 Personal and Social Communication: Identity, the Anchor Text and the Journal That Runs for Two Years
Module 2 at a Glance: Six Criteria, Bias Mark-up and Planning the Charter
M3 Communication in Media: Media Forms, Design, Advertising and Film
M4 Express Yourself: Song, Poetry, Drama and the Personal Composition

Seventeen Key Assignments across two years, most of them the visible end of a workshop chain, all of them evidenced from one Communication Portfolio that the class teacher verifies. Participants leave with a seventeen-KA two-year map, a scaffolded workshop sequence, and a judged sample portfolio.

Seventeen Key Assignments Across Two Years: the Map, the Cadence and the Banking Points
Running a Prep, Draft, Bank Workshop Sequence
Verifying the Communication Portfolio

Twelve of the sixteen credits are awarded by an external examiner, split 67% written and 33% oral, and two of the largest assessed areas are not named after any module. Participants leave with an examination preparation plan, a named plan for audio-visual and oral coverage, a post-course confidence audit, and final implementation intentions.

The Written Paper: One Shape, Five Times
Off the Map: Audio Visual and the Oral Examination
Progression, Community and Final Reflection

Where English and Communications sits in LCA, what it is assessed on, and an honest measurement of where you are starting from. Participants locate the subject in the programme, state the 16-credit assessment structure precisely, and complete a baseline self-efficacy audit across the five areas the course develops.

Welcome, Confidence Audit and the Lead Learner Mindset for the LCA English Classroom
LCA English at a Glance: Modules, Key Assignments, Credits

Teaching reading and writing to students they have already failed, putting a real text in front of the class anyway, and building oral confidence as an everyday habit rather than an examination block. Participants leave with a repertoire of literacy-first moves and a redesigned lesson opening of their own.

Students Who Have Stopped Reading and Writing, and Repairing the Relationship
Putting a Text in Front of Them Anyway: Reading Load, Read-aloud and the Reading Interactives
Talk as the Everyday Mode: Building Oral Confidence in Every Lesson

What each of the four modules actually asks for, how its units build toward its Key Assignments, and where it is easy to plan past something. Participants leave with a worked plan for the module they will teach first, and a clear sense of content areas that carry disproportionate examination weight.

M1 Personal and Social Communication: Identity, the Anchor Text and the Journal That Runs for Two Years
Module 2 at a Glance: Six Criteria, Bias Mark-up and Planning the Charter
M3 Communication in Media: Media Forms, Design, Advertising and Film
M4 Express Yourself: Song, Poetry, Drama and the Personal Composition

Seventeen Key Assignments across two years, most of them the visible end of a workshop chain, all of them evidenced from one Communication Portfolio that the class teacher verifies. Participants leave with a seventeen-KA two-year map, a scaffolded workshop sequence, and a judged sample portfolio.

Seventeen Key Assignments Across Two Years: the Map, the Cadence and the Banking Points
Running a Prep, Draft, Bank Workshop Sequence
Verifying the Communication Portfolio

Twelve of the sixteen credits are awarded by an external examiner, split 67% written and 33% oral, and two of the largest assessed areas are not named after any module. Participants leave with an examination preparation plan, a named plan for audio-visual and oral coverage, a post-course confidence audit, and final implementation intentions.

The Written Paper: One Shape, Five Times
Off the Map: Audio Visual and the Oral Examination
Progression, Community and Final Reflection

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