Meet Our Online Teachers in Residence 2010!
Primary: 
Lucy Young originally graduated with a law degree but eventually stopped fighting the inevitable and, like her brother, followed in the footsteps of her mother and aunt in becoming a teacher. Like the rest of her family she has a keen personal interest in books and takes part in a book club in her home town of Forfar.
She has worked in Andover Primary School as an Infant Teacher in P2/3 class for the last two years, having worked in other schools across Angus. In Andover she hosts several out of school clubs linked to reading, she is a leader within the reading working group party and promotes an engagement in reading at all levels of the school community, including Keys to Literacy and Literature Circles.
Lucy has previously worked with teenagers in education excluded from mainstream school and is especially interested in the creative arts and supporting children with social and emotional challenges.
Lucy enjoys using picture books and novels within her class to capture children’s interest as a context to stimulate and promote pace and challenge as desired by the principles underpinning the Curriculum for Excellence.
Lucy is excited about the challenges that lie ahead and the support from both Scottish Book Trust and Angus Council in promoting the enjoyment and value of reading for her class and school.
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Secondary:
Michael Stephenson teaches at Inveralmond Community High School in Livingston, where he’s a member of a great English department and a not-so-great staff football team.
As a teacher he has a particular interest in modern Scottish literature, ICT and creative writing.
He enjoys finding innovative approaches to English teaching, though it’s been suggested that this is all merely a desperate ploy to avoid actually doing any marking. In real life his happiest times are spent walking up hills, writing poems, playing fives and listening to Dylan. He lives in Bathgate.
Michael’s really excited about the online teacher-in-residence post – especially the chance to connect with and learn from teachers, writers and pupils across Scotland.
When it’s over, he’ll probably buy a cardigan and a Creedence tape and start working on his ten-pin bowling.
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Click here to download Michael's teaching resources on Adaptation.
