Events

This first workshop in our series on the best strategies for teaching junior English will focus on teaching students to read (and view) texts. Teachers will be shown a range of practical strategies to help students infer meaning in texts, identify literary devices and develop interpretations. This workshop will look at how to foster rich discussions of texts and how to create effective text assessments. Importantly, it will also suggest a range of novels and films to study across Years…

This second workshop in our series on the best strategies for teaching junior English focuses on how to teach the common writing skills of essay, persuasive and creative writing. In this workshop, teachers will be shown how to design units that embed explicit writing instruction as well frequent feedback and how to create effective assessment tasks. In addition to strategies about how to boost vocabulary, sentence and paragraph construction skills, this workshop will also show teachers how to develop their…

In this last workshop in our series on teaching junior English, we'll focus on oral presentation, class discussion and thinking skills. We'll share with teachers a whole range of strategies to help students create and deliver effective presentations. We'll also look at how to create classrooms which are rich in class discussion, deep thinking and active participation. Teachers will discover a toolkit of engagement strategies which they'll be able to deploy in a range of contexts.

This workshop looks closely at strategies, resources and tasks for teaching and assessing the areas of studies which Units 1 and 3 have in common: *Creative responses to texts *Text responses *Analysing argument This workshop is ideal for teachers who will be new to VCE English next year, are returning to it after a break or simply want some new ideas about how to approach these areas of study. By the end of this workshop, teachers will be equipped with…

This workshop looks closely at strategies, resources and tasks for teaching and assessing the areas of studies which Units 1 and 3 EAL have in common: *Creative responses to texts *Text responses *Analysing argument *The listening task This workshop is ideal for teachers who will be new to VCE English next year, are returning to it after a break or simply want some new ideas about how to approach these areas of study. By the end of this workshop, teachers…

This workshop - aimed at teachers who are new to VCAL, will be returning to teaching it next year or who simply want some new ideas - will look at practical strategies and resources for combining and teaching the following literacy outcomes: *Writing for self expression *Reading for self expression *Oracy for self expression *Writing for public debate *Reading for public debate *Oracy for exploring issues and problem solving By the end of this workshop, teachers will be equipped with…

This workshop - aimed at teachers who are new to VCAL, will be returning to teaching it next year or who simply want some new ideas - will look at practical strategies and resources for combining and teaching the following literacy outcomes: *Writing for knowledge *Reading for knowledge *Oracy for knowledge *Writing for practical purposes *Reading for practical purposes *Oracy for practical purposes By the end of this workshop, teachers will be equipped with a range of practical strategies to…

This workshop - aimed at teachers new to VCE English Language or who simply want some fresh ideas - focuses on strategies and resources for teaching these two areas of study for Unit 1: *The nature and functions of language *Language acquisition By the end of this workshop, teachers will be equipped with a wide range of strategies to build student knowledge in these areas as well as explicitly teach them how to write about these topics.

This workshop - aimed at teachers new to VCE Literature or who simply want some fresh ideas - focuses on strategies and resources for teaching these two areas of study for Unit 1: *Reading practices *Ideas and concerns in texts By the end of this workshop, teachers will be equipped with a wide range of strategies to explore these areas of study with students and to explicitly teach and scaffold them to read and respond to texts.