March 2021
English graduate teachers’ day out
This session is aimed at teachers in their early years of teaching English. It is a day that will be rich in practical activities, resources, strategies and advice for teaching years 7-12 English classes. The day will include a number of mini-workshops that will look at: Effective strategies to teach texts Effective strategies to teach writing (including vocabulary, sentence structure, creative writing, persuasive writing, essay writing and non-fiction writing) Effective strategies to teach speaking and listening How to give effective…
Find out more »May 2021
The best strategies and resources for improving reading comprehension and inference skills at Years 5-10
This practical workshop will demonstrate to teachers a range of explicit teaching procedures to improve students’ comprehension and inference of fiction and non-fiction texts. In particular, the workshop will look at: the difference between reading assessment and learning to read activities how to use strategies at the pre, during and post reading stages how to incorporate direct reading instruction into typical units such as text response, persuasive and creative writing how to create reading programs and cultures of reading
Find out more »Key strategies for improving student writing outcomes at Years 5-10
This workshop will look at the three central elements of effective writing instruction and resources and strategies that can be used to implement each of these elements: Teach vocabulary effectively: Vocabulary instruction should allow students to understand how words operate in context with other words and to equip them with skills to make a nuanced choice of words. Model both whole text level and sentence level features: Students need to understand both how to structure a whole text and the…
Find out more »How to create a scaffolded and differentiated English classroom
Students learn best when they receive effective support (scaffolding) and are given achievable challenges appropriate for their individual level (differentiation). The theory is nice – but when we have 25 students, each with different needs in our class, how do we manage this? This workshop looks at time efficient strategies for scaffolding students and differentiating their tasks in the type of routine writing, reading and speaking activities we do every day in the English classroom. Importantly, this workshop will look…
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