Creative Writing Skills for Teachers

Creative Writing Skills for Teachers

This course will help teachers design in-class activities to teach creative writing in a fun and engaging way. We will work collaboratively through a wide range of techniques that can be applied in primary and secondary classes. At the end of the course, teachers will learn strategies to make creative writing a simple, accessible and easy-to-learn process for their students.

16 May to 08 June 2023

Parents and teachers who wish to interact with the teaching community and increase their knowledge of new creative writing teaching methods.

16 May to 08 June 2023 - Sessions will be conducted every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00 to 5:00 pm

This course will be conducted online on MS Teams.

Hands-on activities to use in the classroom, course materials and a certificate of completion.

The cost is PKR 6,000 per teacher for one course. The price includes all cost materials.

Places will be offered on a first-come first serve basis until all places have been filled up. If places are available, registrations will continue until the course starts.

MODULE 1

Descriptive writing

Introduction/setting, Grammar and vocabulary techniques, Figurative Language techniques, Multi-sensory tools.

MODULE 2

Narrative writing

Unusual beginnings, Plot/characters/conflict-transitions, Strong adjectives/adverbs, Resolution/conclusion.

MODULE 3

Persuasive writing

Using reasoning and logic, Structuring examples and evidence, Rhetorical language, Eliciting vocabulary.

MODULE 4

Expository writing

Framing topic sentences, Transitions between paragraphs - connectives, Presenting facts and opinion, Techniques for clarity and precision in writing.

Facilitator

Neda Mulji

Neda Mulji is working with OUP as Senior Manager, Professional Development and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. Before joining OUP, Neda taught Communication Skills and English courses for several years as a university lecturer in Dubai. She has a BSc (Hons.) from LUMS, MA in Postcolonial Studies – Literature and Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London, a Cambridge Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGC-HE) from Middlesex University. Neda writes regularly for Dawn on topics in education and has written a book on parenting, titled ‘The Love Connection’, published by Austin Macauley, UK. She has also written a children’s story called ‘Little Jimmy’, published by OUP.

Guest Speakers

Saman Shamsie

Saman Shamsie is the author of three books for children. Her book ‘Where the Rivers Meet’ won the 10th UBL Literary Awards in the English, Children’s Literature category in 2022.
She lives in Karachi, Pakistan, where she was born and educated at the Karachi Grammar School. She graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania and in 2013, received a Master's in Education Management from the King’s College, London. She was involved in the Preston Road Community Library Campaign and later, named its Children’s Laureate. In 2016, the library held a ‘Saman Shamsie Young Writer's Challenge,’ for children.
Saman Shamsie is now a teacher at a renowned school of Karachi.



Taha Kehar

Taha Kehar is a novelist, journalist and literary critic. A law graduate from SOAS, London, Kehar is the author of Typically Tanya and Of Rift and Rivalry. His third novel, No Funeral for Nazia, will be released in the UK in 2023. He is also the co-editor of The Stained-Glass Window: Stories of the Pandemic from Pakistan.
Kehar has served as the head of The Express Tribune’s Peshawar city pages and bi-monthly books page and later worked as an assistant editor on the op-ed desk at The News. Kehar’s essays, reviews, and commentaries were published in Pakistan's leading newspapers. He recently compiled and edited the first print anthology of the initiative titled Tales from Karachi (Moringa, 2021). Kehar has also penned entries for The Literary Encyclopedia, a UK-based repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history. Kehar curates Tales from Karachi, an Instagram e-anthology that publishes flash fiction from and about Karachi.



Rabia Nafees Shah

Rabia Nafees Shah is an Assistant Professor in the English program at LUMS. Since January 2018, she has also headed the Writing stream of courses in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. She was selected as the only incoming graduate recipient of the Ruth McQuown Fellowship for one academic year at the University of Florida, where she completed her MA in English in 2009.
She also received a Certificate for Academic Achievement from the University of Florida, where she taught several writing and literature courses while studying for her Master's. Her fields of interest include Adaptation Studies, Popular Culture, Body Studies, Magical Realism, Restoration Comedy, Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Feminism, Modernism and 20th Century Studies.

Terms and Conditions

  • The course material remains OUPP's property to be used as deemed fit. Participants will receive handouts for reference.
  • The registration fee, once paid, is non-refundable regardless of attendance by the participant. Cancellations will not be accommodated.
  • Oxford University Press Pakistan reserves the right to modify presenters and course content.


For more information, email us at pd.pk@oup.com.
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