AUT25-24 An introduction to teaching ‘Othello’

Date: Wednesday 10th September
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 ways of approaching and understanding Othello, a single text
only on the Leaving Certificate course three times previously in the
years since 2000.
● Examine in detail key scenes, including Act I scene i and Act III scene
iii.
● Consider problematic elements of the play, including racial and gender
issues.
● Point the way to useful and interesting resources for teachers, in books
and online.

Presenter:

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.