Steps Out of Time by Katharine Soper

Steps Out of Time by Katharine Soper

Leading English in the Primary School is a comprehensive guide for both aspiring and experienced leaders of primary English. It supports you in navigating your way through the role and offers practical guidance to help you develop a clear understanding of how to improve the teaching of English in your school.

Written by experts with extensive experience of both leadership and the primary classroom, it explores skills required for effective subject leadership while continually considering the specific implications for English. With action and reflection points throughout the book, it offers a detailed introduction to:

• the role of the English subject leader
• implementing strategy and vision
• adapting to new educational policy
• methods for leading teaching and learning
• how and why leaders evaluate and monitor progress
• contemporary changes to the curriculum.

Rich case studies reveal how schools lead English in practice and provide real-life examples of English subject leaders' decision-making processes and actions. Grounding the subject leader role in the current curriculum, Leading English in the Primary School is a source of advice, support and inspiration for all professionals embracing the complex, challenging, yet fulfilling role of Primary English Leader.

Katharine B. Soper has worked as a French professor, an attorney practicing divorce law and insurance defense law, a divorce mediator, a writer and editor at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a University of Michigan administrator. Earlier in her life, she supervised line-walkers on the Alaska pipeline, guided student tours to France and Spain, and taught English to mid-level executives in Bogota, Colombia, and to air traffic controllers at the Bordeaux International Airport. But of all her adventures, the one that most profoundly changed her life came at age fifty-seven when she first walked the Camino Frances from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, to Santiago de Compostella, Spain. The journal she kept during this 800-kilometer trek is the basis for Steps Out of Time: One Woman's Journey on the Camino.