3L: Language and literacy for learning (Perth Metro event)

Description

Better teaching for all through a better understanding of language.
3L puts language at the heart of every teacher’s toolkit. Whether you are teaching Science, Mathematics or Art, whether you are teaching children in their primary language or not, this course can transform your work.
By focusing on how students and teachers make meaning across the curriculum, 3L promotes an integrated, whole-school approach that allows all teachers to become effective teachers of literacy. A comprehensive and innovative professional development program for educators seeking to extend their understandings about language and literacy.

Who is it for?
3L is relevant for all classroom teachers in all school contexts.
3L is aimed specifically at teachers working with students aged between 8 and 18 years.

What will I learn?
How student literacy is a capacity for making meaning across the whole curriculum, predominantly through language and visuals
The ways that language underpins learning
Teaching practices that will build up students’ language and visual resources so that they can be successful learners across all learning areas
Teaching practices that address students' language and learning needs in a holistic and explicit manner
Positive strategies for self-reflection and self-appraisal
How to develop collaborative working relationships with other teachers across subject areas

The program aims to:

• make the workings of the language system explicit in order to appreciate the role language plays in constructing knowledge across all learning areas
• build understandings about the patterned ways meanings are made within and across genres so that educators are able to develop students’ language resources to enable them 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.

Course Content
Module 1: Language and literacy in teaching and learning
Module 2: The role of language in learning and scaffolding
Module 3: Learning about language: supporting students to comprehend texts (part 1)
Module 4: Learning about language: supporting students to comprehend texts (part 2)
Module 5: Developing students’ vocabulary
Module 6: Supporting writing
Module 7: Supporting listening and assessing language development
Module 8: Programming and assessing: setting up successful frameworks

The course entails 20 hours of face-to-face learning (four days), which, when combined with between-module readings and activities, is equivalent to more than 45 hours of professional development for teachers.

It is expected that teachers registering for this course will attend all four sessions.

• 29 March
• 29 April
• 24 May
• 24 June