Structured Classroom Talk: Strategies to Promote Group Work and Discussion (PP)

Structured Classroom Talk: Strategies to Promote Group Work and Discussion (PP)

DATE:    Tuesday, 13th January 2026 
TIME:     7pm - 8pm
VENUE: Online Via Zoom

Target Audience: Junior Cycle & Transition Year English Teachers

This one-hour webinar will explore strategies to encourage students to communicate actively and effectively as speakers and listeners in the English classroom, with an emphasis on small group collaboration and peer review activities. It is aimed at Junior Cycle and Transition Year levels of teaching.

Bio of Presenter: Selena Wilkes



Selena has been a teacher since 1989. She was an SEC examiner and advising examiner in Higher Level English for twenty four years and an advisor in English and literacy with PDST for three years. She currently teaches English, Geography and Chinese in New Cross College, Finglas, Dublin, and lectures in The School of Education PME programme in UCD. Her hobbies include scuba-diving and boring people with photographs of her dogs.