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High Impact Teaching Strategies For Every Secondary Classroom (via Zoom)
High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) are evidence based instruction procedures that have demonstrated the best capacity to improve student outcomes in the classroom. The HITS include strategies such as feedback, questioning, metacognition, differentiation, multiple exposures and collaborative learning. This workshop aims to show how to apply the research in practical and effective ways to every secondary classroom, whether junior or senior, maths, humanities, health, English, science or technology. For each of the HITS, the workshop will demonstrate a range of…
Find out more »The Best Strategies and Resources For Teaching Unit 2 Literature (via Zoom)
This workshop focuses on Unit 2 Literature. The workshop will show teachers a range of strategies and resources for teaching students to respond to a text from a past era or culture and to analyse the dialogic nature of texts. In particular, this workshop will provide strategies for: teaching students to closely analyse how the language, imagery and literacy techniques of a text reveals its social and cultural context teaching students to emulate the ideas and techniques of a text…
Find out more »Strategies For Teaching The Literary Perspectives Task in Unit 4 Literature (via Zoom)
This workshop focuses specifically on the literary perspectives task for Unit 4 Literature. It will look closely at the study design and rubric to explain the task, provide examples responses and discuss different ways to assess this task. In particular, this workshop will look at how to teach students about literary theories and to discuss the ways interpretations of a text can represent these theories.
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