Success in literacy and learning is a comprehensive and innovative professional development program for educators seeking to extend their understandings about language and literacy.
The program aims to;
- Make the workings of the language system explicit in constructing knowledge across all learning areas and in all facets of teaching and learning
- Build understandings about the patterned ways meanings are made within and across genres so that educators are able to develop students’ language resources to understand and produce those genres
- Enable participants to understand and use the differences between spoken and written language, both as a teaching and a learning tool
- Develop the ability to assess language explicitly and efficiently to support the learning of all students
- Promote a teaching and learning cycle that provides opportunities for an explicit focus on language as part of a rich learning environment.
- Part 1
Module 1: Building understandings of genre and register
Module 2: Applying understandings of genre and register
- Part 2
Module 3: Representing experience
Module 4: Focusing on language resources for representing experience
- Part 3
Module 5: Making connections—Working with clauses
Module 6: Making connections across a text
- Part 4
Module 7: Language for organising meanings—Orientation and flow
Module 8: The power and the passion—Interacting with others
- Part 5
Module 9: Taking a stance—Expressing attitude and engaging with other views
Module 10: Macro-scaffolding language and learning