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Teaching Literacy
(Strategies for the Expert Teacher)

Overview

Strategies for the Expert Teacher has been specifically developed to assist experienced teachers seeking more strategies to supplement their literacy programs and extend their students.

Students’ learning is deepened by opportunities to engage in reading, writing and talk around a variety of texts and across many different instructional contexts. Teacher expertise is critical in facilitating the instructional context and instructing, scaffolding and prompting students to develop greater levels of proficiency and independence across their learning.

"Angela, you constantly amaze me with your huge knowledge and you motivate me with your practical ideas. Your workshops are energising, thought-provoking, stimulating and I love them!"

Debra Cochrane
Eagle Junction State School

Course outline

This workshop provides background information and practical strategies to support students to:

improve oral communication skills
develop higher levels of thinking and extend the literacy conversation in reading
develop higher order knowledge of skills across the continuum of literacy learning
teach for content literacy
use work stations to support independence
develop greater control over their learning.

Participant's will

build on their existing knowledge of literacy acquisition and learning
gather additional strategies to implement into the daily program
increase their knowledge of how to better support students to assume greater control over their own learning