As the academic year gains momentum and with the renewed 2025 Ofsted Framework, it’s vital to keep disciplinary literacy at the forefront of classroom practice. Beyond general literacy, disciplinary literacy equips students with the tools to think, read, and write like subject experts.
To support this, the BAWESS research team is offering a series of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions for participating and interested schools. These practical workshops are designed to deepen understanding and enhance classroom strategies around language and literacy in subject teaching. The topics include:
– Supporting students to know and write the genres of their subjects: Explore how subject-specific language shapes meaning and supports learning
– Moving students from spoken language to technical, written language: the register continuum : Learn how to scaffold students’ movement between everyday and academic language
– Unpacking command words in exams : Understand how key instructional words and phrases are used in exam questions across disciplines
– Introducing Data-Driven Learning to support the development of disciplinary literacy: Discover how corpus-assisted approached to disciplinary literacy can inform your teaching practice
These sessions are grounded in our current research focusing on disciplinary literacy in exam years and offer practical insights for classroom application. Whether you’re looking to refine your approach or introduce new strategies, we’d love to collaborate with you.
If you’re interested in having us deliver one or more of these sessions at your school, please get in touch with us at bawess@bath.ac.uk or express your interest via this sign-up form.
Let’s work together to make disciplinary literacy a sustained and impactful part of every learner’s journey.
If you’re not involved in the BAWESS project and would like to take part, find out more about participating on our website, fill in this form or contact us at bawess@bath.ac.uk.
