Alison Wilcox

Speaker Summary

For many years Alison worked as a teacher, both in England and Scotland. Whilst teaching, she developed Descriptosaurus as a resource for her own teaching to scaffold and develop students’ creative writing, with dramatic results. The first Descriptosaurus book was published in 2009 and following its success, Alison gave up full-time teaching to research and write. To keep updated with current practices and issues, Alison has been involved in research projects. She works with schools and students to develop new resources and conducts workshops for organisations, teaching alliances and schools.