Strong writing skills enable students to think clearly, communicate ideas precisely and demonstrate deep subject understanding. This course supports secondary teachers in developing effective approaches to teaching writing across the curriculum. Aligned with the DfE Writing Framework (2025), it provides practical, research-informed strategies to help students build fluency, structure and confidence in their written work.
Teachers will explore how writing can be used not only to demonstrate knowledge but also to develop thinking and disciplinary understanding. The course examines how planning, drafting and revising support reasoning and conceptual clarity across subjects. Participants will also learn how to strengthen sentence control, paragraph structure and overall organisation to improve the precision and impact of students’ writing.
Through practical classroom strategies and reflective activities, teachers will explore how modelling, scaffolding and purposeful writing tasks can support extended writing and independence. The course also considers how feedback, reflection and revision practices help students develop agency and pride in their work.
Key themes include:
– Using writing to deepen thinking and disciplinary understanding
– Developing fluency, sentence control and structural coherence
– Writing for purpose and audience across different subjects
– Modelling and scaffolding complex writing using gradual release
– Using feedback, reflection and revision to develop writer agency
Course outcome: Teachers will gain practical strategies to support high-quality writing across the secondary curriculum, helping students develop clarity, confidence and independence as writers within their subject disciplines.
Teachers will explore how writing can be used not only to demonstrate knowledge but also to develop thinking and disciplinary understanding. The course examines how planning, drafting and revising support reasoning and conceptual clarity across subjects. Participants will also learn how to strengthen sentence control, paragraph structure and overall organisation to improve the precision and impact of students’ writing.
Through practical classroom strategies and reflective activities, teachers will explore how modelling, scaffolding and purposeful writing tasks can support extended writing and independence. The course also considers how feedback, reflection and revision practices help students develop agency and pride in their work.
Key themes include:
– Using writing to deepen thinking and disciplinary understanding
– Developing fluency, sentence control and structural coherence
– Writing for purpose and audience across different subjects
– Modelling and scaffolding complex writing using gradual release
– Using feedback, reflection and revision to develop writer agency
Course outcome: Teachers will gain practical strategies to support high-quality writing across the secondary curriculum, helping students develop clarity, confidence and independence as writers within their subject disciplines.