Carl Hendrick

Name: Carl Hendrick
Twitter name: @C_Hendrick
Sector: Secondary
Subject taught (if applicable): English
Position: Head of Research/Head of English
What is your advice about? Teaching Secondary English

1: If you’re spending more time cutting up things and putting them in envelopes than knowing your subject inside out, then you’re doing it wrong.

2: Kids will not die if they don’t talk in class for half an hour, in fact they might even enjoy the silence.

3: If you don’t give kids an awareness of the rich tradition of literature then their understanding of the present will be impoverished.

4: Literature is an exploration of what it means to live, to die, to love, to lose everything. Always remember that when dealing with kids who struggle with these things.

5: People who read a lot sound like they read a lot.
People who don’t read a lot sound like they don’t…