AUT25-26 Revising and Thinking about ‘Macbeth’ for the Leaving Certificate

Date: Tuesday 18th November 2025
Time: 7.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue: Online via Zoom

Target Audience: Senior Cycle English Teachers

This webinar for teachers of post-primary English will:
● Outline effective ways to revise Macbeth in class in the final
months before the Leaving Certificate exam and suggest how
students can use strategies to exercise their own critical thinking.
● Provide practical strategies for students independent work.
● Look at the particular challenges of this play as a single text.
● Suggest online and reading resources to widen teachers own
knowledge of the text.

Presenter: Julian Girdham

Julian Girdham is an experienced English teacher and conference presenter.
He has organised researchED Dublin, a major international educational
conference on evidence-based practice, which has twice taken place in his
school, St Columbas College in Dublin, as well as an annual summer English
Meet for teachers of English. His resources are at www.juliangirdham.com,
including a fortnightly newsletter on books and teaching. He also writes for a
variety of publications, including the Irish Times and Leader magazine.