English Literature + Culture ┃ Ireland + UK
Tour Code: PL-EL+C-IRE+UK
English PD Tour
Ireland + UK
13 Days – Tour Dates TBC
Professional Development Program - For Educators
First Hand Insight
global epicentres
World-Class Lectures + Workshops
This tour takes teachers to Ireland and the UK on an exploration of the cultural heritage and social contexts influencing some of the world’s greatest writers.
Through workshops, tutorials and guided tours teachers have opportunities to refresh and deepen their subject knowledge and teaching practice, and bring innovative ideas, techniques and resources back to the classroom.
PROFESSIONAL Development
This tour includes hours of PD as related to syllabus content. Teachers should add the PD to eTAMS or their personal log.
*Self-education expenses directly related to employment for Australian teachers, may be tax deductible. Seek advice from your tax agent or the ATO
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Tour Highlights
Explore Irish literary heritage through the eyes of Swift, Heaney, Beckett, and Shaw. Tour Trinity College incl Book of Kells, attend a Beckett workshop and a performance at the Abbey Theatre.
Engage with Oxford’s rich literary history and historic Magdalen College – focus on the works of Lewis, TS Eliot and Heaney and visit the magnificent Bodleian Library.
Explore the home of The Bard at Stratford-upon-Avon – visit Shakespeare’s House, go behind the scenes at the Swan Theatre and enjoy an RSC performance.
Tour the Lakes District, synonymous with Wordsworth’s poetry and the Romantic Movement. Then, via the evocative Parsonage Museum at Hawarth, to Manchester for a tutorial on Gaskell’s North and South.
Discover Bath’s Roman origins and Georgian streetscapes synonymous with Jane Austen and her critique of class and manners. Touch on the writings of ST Coleridge.
End the tour with three memorable days in London. Attend an iIntensive Shakespeare workshop. Get immersed in the writings of Keats, Orwell, Forster, Dickens, Donne, and Woolf through tutorials and fascinating guided walks. Performance at The Globe.
Combine a stimulating learning journey with time to visit iconic landmarks – Stonehenge, St Paul’s, Westminster Abbey, TATE Modern plus a West End musical.
Your On-Tour Academic Expert
Marilyn Pretorius
I have been teaching English for too many years to mention. I retain my passion through my love of literature and the lessons writers from all over the world convey about love and life.
To impart some of this wisdom to young people is, to me, the greatest gift. To teach young people the joy to be found in English literature is a bonus. Over many years of teaching, I have acquired a depth of knowledge that I could only dream of when I was very young and discovered reading.
I am particularly interested in the therapy literature can provide to troubled souls, and how literature can help. I am a dedicated educator and very interested in teaching gifted students and to this end participated in a research project which resulted in a publication in 1999 titled: Gifted students in secondary schools: differentiating the curriculum / Miraca U.M. Gross, Bronwyn Sleap, Marilyn Pretorius
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Age: Participants must be over 18 years of age to participate in the program
Travel documentation:
Participants must ensure that they:
Have a valid passport with six months’ validity from their return date to Australia
Obtain any required visas for travel to the destination country, plus any additional visas required for holders of non-Australian passports
Obtain their own travel insurance
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This tour includes hours of PD as related to syllabus content. Teachers should add the PD to eTAMS or their personal log.
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Register Interest to join the mailing list for updates on this tour. Once the tour reaches its minimum interest requirement of attending teachers, you will receive a copy of the booking form and tour payment schedule. A non-refundable deposit will then be payable to confirm your place.
The final balance of the tour price is due 120 days prior to departure.
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You certainly can! Anyone can travel on our PL tours, however, non-teachers should be aware the content will be targeted to the relevant syllabus and based on a certain level of prior knowledge. Should any participant choose not to attend one of the planned activities, there would be no refund for an unused portion of the tour.
Please note - Participants must be over 18 years of age to attend the tour, and attendees who are not teachers in Australia may not be able to acquire PL hours or tax deductions.