INOTE Conference 2019

Notes and links from the keynote at the annual conference of the Irish National Organisation of Teachers of English in Portlaoise on Saturday 12th October 2019.

Link to presentation. 

Collection of tweets and resources.

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researchED

• Irish site
• Home site
• Video of Saturday 5th October 2019

 Books

• Daniel Willingham: The Reading Mind & Why Don't Students Like School? | @DTWillingham
• Oliver Caviglioli: Dual Coding for Teachers | @olicav
• Tom Sherrington: The Learning Rainforest, Rosenshine's Principles in Action, The Learning Rainforest Fieldbook | @teacherhead.
• Yana Weinstein & Megan Sumeracki: Understanding How We Learn: a visual guide. Learning Scientists | @AceThatTest.
• Pooja K. Agarwal and Patrice M. Bain: Powerful Teaching: unleash the science of learning. www.retrievalpractice.org
• Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow.
• Thomas Newkirk: Minds Made for Stories & The Art of Slow Reading | @Tom_Newkirk.
• Some recent books for English teachers: suggestions. 
• Donalyn Miller: The Book Whisperer | @donalynbooks
• Kenny Pieper: Reading for Pleasure | @kennypieper
• Maryanne Wolf: Reader, Come Home - the reading brain in a digital world 
• Meghan Cox Gurdon: The Enchanted House - the miraculous power of reading aloud in the age of distraction | @MeghanGurdon
• Kelly Gallagher: Readicide & Write Like This | Article of the Week | @KellyGToGo
• Carl Hendrick and Robin Macpherson: What Does this Look Like in the Classroom? bridging the gap between research and practice. |
  @C_Hendrick

Vocabulary

• Alex Quigley: Closing the Vocabulary Gap | @huntingenglish
• Haggard Hawks | @Haggard Hawks
• Robert Macfarlane - Word of the Day | @RobGMacfarlane
• Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris: The Lost Words
• Susie Dent | @susie_dent
• T.P. Dolan: A Dictionary of Hiberno-English

Online

• www.quizlet.com 
• Comparative judgment: No More Marking (Daisy Christodoulou) | @daisychristo
• Geoff Barton: 12 Things Great English Teachers Do | @RealGeoffBarton
• www.retrievalpractice.org | @PoojaAgarwal
• Self-publishing: Lulu.com. 
• Helen Zaltzman's The Allusionist podcast
•  SCC English: Article of the Week

Some more recommended books

• Sinead Gleeson: Constellations
• Emily Pine: Notes to Self
• Tim Winton: The Boy Behind the Curtain
• Rachel Cusk: Kudos, Transit and Outline, as well as Coventry (essays)
• Robert Macfarlane: The Old Ways, Landmarks, Underland.
• Joseph O'Connor: Shadowplay
• David Park: Travelling in a Strange Land
• Melatu Uche Okorie: This Hostel Life