Steven has received numerous invitations to speak at events by Classics organisations both in the UK and abroad.
Most recently he has participated or will participate in the following events:
2018
September 15: Book Launch – Forward with Classics at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford.
August 24: Euroclassica annual conference. University College London. ‘What is the Latin which we teach in schools?’
July 30 – August 3: Director of ArLT Summer School at Uppingham School, Uppingham.
July 22-23: Classics for All teacher training for Bishop Challoner’s School, London.
June 28-30: American Classical League (by video-link!) with Ben Joffie – Montana.
June 26-27: Classics for All teacher training for Aureus School, Didcot.
June 23: CSCP Annual Conference, Cambridge. Slavery in the CLC: learning the language through vivid and engaging narrative.
June 21: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
June 16: Hands-Up Education event at the Museum of London. ‘Text + Image = Understanding.’
June 6: Teaching CLC: Guildford Classical Association Teachmeet, St Catherine’s School.
May 16: Classics teachers’ event at Newham for Wad-Ham and Classics for All.
April 13: Classics for All training event at Bishop Challoner’s School, London.
April 6-9: Classical Association Annual Conference, Leicester. CUCD Panel: Communicative Latin Teaching in Schools and Universities: paper to present and workshop; convener of ARLT Panel on classroom pedagogy.
March 29: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
March 26: Classics teachers’ event at Lea Manor High School, Luton, for Classics for All.
21 March: Classics teachers’ event for the Manchester Classical Association.
14 March: Classics for All training event at Addey and Stanhope School.
February 26: Classics for All training event at Hope Valley College, Derbyshire.
February 22: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
February 20: Initial Teacher Training at Liverpool Hope University.
February 13: Initial Teacher Training with Cambridge PGCE at Bath Museum.
February 12: Initial Teacher Training for the KCL PGCE, London.
February 2: Initial Teacher Training for the Sussex PGCE, University of Sussex.
January 29: Classics for All training event at Aureus School, Didcot.
January 25: Classics for All event at King’s College London.
January 25: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
January 18: Classics for All Training event at Gildridge House School, Eastbourne.
January 15: Initial Teacher Training at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool.
January 11: Initial Teacher Training at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool.
January 4: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
2017
December 4-5: Initial Teacher Training at Liverpool Hope University.
November 20-21: Initial Teacher Training at Liverpool Hope University.
November 30 2017: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
November 27-28 2017: Teacher Training (KS3) at The Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis
November 21 2017: Classics for All Training event, London. CfA hubs presentation; The State of Classics Education.
November 6-7 2017: Initial Teacher Training at Liverpool Hope University.
October 19 2017: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
October 10 2017: Teacher Training with Minimus at Wisborough Primary School, Billingshurst.
October 5 2017: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
October 3 2017: Initial Teacher Training at Liverpool Hope University.
September 26 2017: Initial Teacher Training at Liverpool Hope University.
September 21 2017: Teachmeet at Norwich Castle Museum for VI Form Classics Teachers in the Norwich area.
September 18-19 2017: Teacher Training at St Leonard’s Academy, West St Leonards.
September 14 2017: Initial Teacher Training at Harris Academies ITE, London.
September 13 2017: Teaching Students with Anxiety Conference: ‘Narrative, Fantasy and Latin; a teenager talks about his worlds’. Paper at TLAR at the Institute of Classical Studies, London.
September 11 2017: PGCE Cambridge and PGCE Harris Academy Initial Teacher Education courses commence.
September 6 2017: Teacher Training at Southborough School, Surbiton
September 5 2017: Teacher Training with Minimus at Elm Tree Primary School, Lowestoft.
July 2017: Teacher training at Peacehaven Community School, East Sussex.
July 2017: Teacher training at Norwich Castle.
July 2017: Teacher training at Stowupland School, Suffolk.
July 2017: Teacher training at Manningtree High School, Essex.
July 2017: Teacher training at St Leonard’s Academy, East Sussex
July 2017: Association for Latin Teaching Summer School, Uppingham School. Starting to Teach CLC.
June 2017: American Classical League Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US: ‘The Reading Approach IS Comprehensible Input.’
June 2017: CSCP Annual Conference, Cambridge. ‘Starting to Teach the CLC’ and ‘The narrative matters: CLC scope and sequence’.
May 2017: Teacher Training for the Sussex PGCE: ‘Rome as our classroom.’ Rome, Italy.
May 2017: Teacher Training at Harris Academy Chafford Hundred
April 2017: Classical Association Annual Conference, Canterbury. Round table discussion on ‘University-School Classics Outreach’.
April 2017: Minimus training day at the University of Birmingham
April 2017: Teacher Training for the Australian Classical Association, Sydney, Australia
March 2017: Teacher Training for Grieg City Academy, London.
March 2017: Association for Latin Teaching INSET, Solihull: ‘Communicative approaches to Latin teaching’
March 2017: Teacher Training on the Sussex Classics PGCE ‘ICT and Latin teaching’ and ‘Teaching Latin Literature’
March 2017: Teacher Training for Jewish Community School, London.
February 2017: Classics for All Teacher Training, London: ‘Teaching challenging Latin grammar’ and ‘Teaching Latin literature’.
January 2017: Starting to Teach Classics conference, Newtown, Wales. ‘Why offer Classics in our schools?‘ and ‘Teaching Latin language’
January 2017: Meeting with Minister for Education, Wales, to discuss the provision of training for the Welsh Education Department.
2016
November 2016: Filming for Latin teaching, at University of Oxford.
October 2016: Book-signing at Bloomsbury, in conversation with Professor Edith Hall (KCL).
October 2016: Training observation for Suffolk and Norfolk SCITT.
September 2016: PGCE Cambridge starts. Harris Academy ITT starts.
August 2016: Classics for All ‘Beginners’ Latin’ Training at UCL.
July 2016: ARLT Summer School at Ratcliffe College, Leicester. ‘Teaching CLC for beginners’.
June 2016: Panel speaker at the Prince’s Trust Institute, Homerton College, Cambridge.
April 2016: Classical Association Conference: Paper for the CUCD Panel ‘Gove’s Classicists’ on the state of Classics teaching under the new education reforms; chaired Living Latin panel; presented at the CfA round table discussion on Teaching Classics in the UK.
March 2016: Lecture at University of Sussex for the PGCE in Classics ‘ICT and Latin teaching’ and ‘Teaching Latin literature’.
March 2016: ARLT INSET Day at UCL: ‘CLC Digital resources – classroom practice’.
February 2016: Discussion with Ministry for Education, Wales, about Classics in the Curriculum and Initial Teacher Education.
February 2016: ICT and Classics teacher training at King’s College, London, for the PGCE.
February 2016: Living Latin Conference, at Fordham University, New York, US.
February 2016: Teacher Training for CfA in Cardiff.
January 2016: Teacher Training workshops for WJEC in London and Birmingham.
January 2016: Presentation on teaching approaches for the Classical Association, Manchester.
January 2016: Teacher Training for CfA at Harris Academy Bromley.
2015
November 2015: Seminar at University of Swansea.
October 2015: Teacher Training for CfA at Plymouth: Devonport School for Boys.
September 2015: Classics in Communities Conference, Cambridge. Organized the conference.
July 2015: ARLT Summer School, Monmouth. ‘Teaching CLC for Beginners’.
July 2015: Classical Association of South Africa Biennial Conference: Paper: ‘Developments in Classics Education in the UK 2010 to the present.’
June 2015: Storrs, USA: ACL Workshops.
April 2015: Classical Association Conference, University of Bristol. Conference paper: ‘Growing Classics in state schools: initiatives to increase opportunities for Classics teacher training in response to government policy 2013-14.’
March 2015: Classics and the CLC, workshop at University of Sussex PGCE.
March 2015: Teacher Training talk at University of Swansea.
March 2015: ARLT INSET, Leeds. Workshop on CLC.
March 2015: Teacher Training talk at University of Cambridge.
February 2015: ICT and Classics teacher training at King’s College, London, for the PGCE.
February 2015: Teacher Training talk at University of Reading.
February 2015: Teacher Training at University of Exeter.
February 2015: Teacher Training talk at University of Nottingham.
February 2015: Teacher Training at University of Liverpool.
2014
November 2014: Talk to potential Classics teachers at University of Warwick.
August 2014: DfE / CSCP Teacher Training week-long course for non-specialists, at St Katharine’s College, Oxford.
July 2014: ARLT Summer School, Durham. ‘Teaching CLC’.
July 2014: Teacher Training in East Dereham for non-specialists.
July 2014: INSET for teachers at Wadham College, Oxford.
June 2014: Williamsburg, USA: ACL Workshops.
May 2014: Teacher Training in North Walsham for non-specialists.
April 2014: Classical Association Conference, University of Nottingham. Conference paper: ‘Teaching Controversial Subjects in the Secondary School. ‘
March 2104: CSCP INSET ‘Language Skills for CLC Books 3 and 4’ for non-specialists and beginning teachers. Manchester.
February 2014: INSET training event at King’s College, London on ‘ICT and Classics teaching.’
February 2014: Teaching Workshop for BA students at the University of Nottingham.
February 2014: iLatin and eGreek conference, London. presented a paper on ‘Digital technology in the secondary Classics classroom.’
2013
December 2013: CSCP INSET ‘Language Skills for CLC Books 1 and 2’ for non-specialists and beginning teachers. Manchester.
December 2013: CSCP INSET ‘Teaching CLC Book 1’ for non-specialists and beginning teachers. London.
November 2013: Invited Speaker at the Classics in Communities Conference. ‘The North Norfolk Latin Cluster project: a Case Study.’ Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
November 2013: Seminar: ‘Primary School Teaching Opportunities.’ With London Network for Languages, University of Westminster.
November 2013: Myth Workshop for MA students at the University of Nottingham.
October 2013: Teacher Training Development INSET at the School of St Anne and St Katharine, Abingdon.
September 2013: JACT Classical Civilization INSET at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford.
July 2013: NACCP workshops in Memphis, USA, on ‘Teaching the CLC’ for American teachers.
June 2013: Memphis, USA: ACL pre-institute: Workshops (with Will Griffiths) ‘(How) does the reading approach work?’
June 2013: CSCP / British Museum presentation: ‘Using material culture to teach about the Romans’ (with Richard Woff).
June 2013: Keynote Speaker at GreekForYou International Symposium, Bristol. ‘Making Greek count.’
April 2013: North Walsham High School, Norfolk. Training workshops on starting to teach Latin for non-specialist teachers.
April 2013: Politeia round-table discussion on Latin and the Government’s proposed EBCs.
April 2013: Classical Association Conference, Reading. Conference paper: ‘The impact of the higher fees regime on applicants for teacher training in Classics.’
March 2103: INSET Training event for the GSA at Edgbaston High School, on ‘New ways of teaching Latin Literature.’
March 2013: OCR stakeholder forum on new GCSEs and A Levels, Cambridge.
March 2013: CUCD Classics forum at Downing College, Cambridge.
March 2013: INSET training event at King’s School, Taunton, on ‘ICT and Prep School Latin.’
March 2013: ARLT INSET training at Loughborough Grammar School on ‘Teaching CLC Book 1.’
February 2013: INSET training event at King’s College, London on ‘ICT and Classics teaching.’
February 2013: INSET training event at Henrietta Barnett School, North London, on ‘New ways of teaching GCSE and A Level Latin Literature.’
January 2013: Presentation about Teacher Training for Classics at the invitation of Lord Aberdare to the Teaching Agency, London.
January 2013: Presentation about Classics in Independent – State School Partnerships at the ISSP Forum, Department of Education, London.
2012
December 2012: Politeia round-table discussion on Latin and the Government’s proposed EBCs.
December 2012: British Museum round-table discussion on the Pompeii Exhibition.
November 2012: University of Cambridge. Talk for Classics graduate and employment event.
August 2012: CSCP, New York. Workshops on ‘Teaching the CLC’ for US teachers.
July 2012: CSCP, Dallas. Workshops on ‘Teaching the CLC’ for US teachers.
July 2012: ARLT Summer School, Moreton Hall School, Oswestry. Workshops on ‘Using the CLC Digital Resources.’
June 2012: CSCP Annual Conference, Cambridge. Workshop on ‘Teaching CLC Book 3 on a limited timetable.’
June 2012: Classics for All, London. Conference on strategies for extending opportunities for the study of Classics in state maintained schools.
May 2012: North Walsham High School, Norfolk. Workshops on starting to teach Latin for non-specialist teachers.
May 2012: Varndean College, E Sussex. Workshops on starting to teach latin for non-specialist teachers.
May 2012: Merton College, Oxford. Development of a new website for JACT.
April 2012: OCR, Cambridge. PGCE, GTP and NQT training event.
April 2012: Classical Association Conference, Exeter. Presented a paper on ‘The experiences of GTP teacher trainees in Classics.’
February 2012: University of Leeds. Talk to a Classics graduate and employment event.
January 2012: King’s College London. Classics and ICT workshop.
2011
November 2011: Wadham College, Oxford. Organised and presented at Classics in Comprehensives conference. ‘Why do Headteachers want Latin?’
November 2011: Wadham College, Oxford. Didaskalos Conference on Ancient History Teaching.
October 2011: The British School at Rome. Organsied joint BSR / JACT workshops for ‘Teaching extra-mural Classics.’
September 2011: The British Museum / JACT. Workshop on ‘Teaching extra-mural Classics.’
July 2011: ARLT Summer School, Charterhouse School, Guildford.Workshops on ‘Active apporaches to teaching Greek drama.’
June 2011: CSCP Annual Conference, Cambridge. Workshops on ‘Teaching Latin on a limited timetable.’
June 2011: JACT / Friends of Classics ‘Red Book’ conference.
May 2011: The Stephen Perse Foundation. Comenius visit to Trier.
may 2011: JACT INSET, Liverpool. Seminar on teacher training.
March 2011: WJEC INSET, Birmingham and London. Workshop on ‘Teaching CLC Books 1 and 2 for the non-specialist.’
February 2011: University of Leeds. Talk for the Classic graduate and employment event.
2010
December 2010: University of Warwick. Talk for the Classics graduate and employment event.
September 2010: JACT INSET, London. Workshop on ‘Digital technology and Classics.’
July 2010: ARLT Summer School, Sheffield. Workshops on ‘Blending language and cultural background in the CLC.’
2009
September 2009: JACT INSET, London. Keynote lecture: ‘(R)evolution in Classics.’
July 2009: ARLT Summer School, Bristol. Keynote lecture: ‘Classics now and in the future.’ Workshop on differentiation and Classics.
