Crash Course in Grammar Semester 2

Pat Kershaw is a Literacy/English Consultant and has been with AISWA since 2009. She has taught at primary, secondary (English) and tertiary levels and has been involved in many research projects within the university sector and within AISWA, with a focus on literacy in cross-curricular and collaborative projects, which model approaches that teachers can take in the classroom. Her main areas of interest are writing, grammar, oral language and literacy across the curriculum. She works with teachers of literacy and/or English from P-10, as well as principals and teacher teams across WA to support schools with literacy requirements.

Sophia Sabatier (BA, Dip. Ed., Licence d’Anglais) has worked as an EAL/D teacher in Western Australia and France since the early 90s and is currently the Literacy Coordinator and EAL/D consultant for Independent schools in WA, as well as the President of WATESOL (the Westralian Association for Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages). These roles involve providing professional learning for and consulting with teachers from F-12 in the areas of EAL/D and general Literacy and coordinating cross-sectoral support for all EAL/D teachers across WA. Sophia was one of the two writers of ACARA’s “English as an Additional Language or Dialect Teacher Resource”, the writer of ACARA’s senior secondary EAL/D course and has extensive experience in WACE exams for EAL/D. Sophia has worked for AISWA since 2008. Prior to that, she was Project Officer of EAL/D at the Curriculum Council of WA. Before this role, she was a teacher and the Middle School Coordinator at Aranmore Catholic College, where she taught EAL/D 8-12, English 8-11, SOSE for EAL/D students and French. Sophia is an accredited trainer of Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classes (TESMC), How Language Works, Teaching young children in English in multilingual contexts, Words Their Way, Tracks to Two-Way Learning and the WA ESL/ESD Progress Map. Her interests include grammar, spelling and cross-cultural awareness. She is committed to ensuring that all children receive the education they deserve and that teachers in all subject areas understand the Literacy demands of what they teach.