Description
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 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.
The teacher development course incorporates group discussion, small group activities, classroom-based research and highly practical readings. It is designed to develop teachers’ understandings about language and literacy, using a functional model of language. Trained tutors deliver 30 hours of face-to-face professional development in 10 modules which, when combined with module activities and readings, is equivalent to more than 50 hours of professional development for teachers and may be accepted as RPL in some university courses.
It is expected that teachers registering for this course will attend all five sessions.
Presenters
Patricia Kershaw (AISWA Staff)
Literacy Consultant
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.
Terms & Conditions
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Segments
Event Segment
Date / Time
27 Feb 2019 Starts: 08:30 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : In Person
PL Hours : 6.50
Event Segment
Date / Time
20 Mar 2019 Starts: 08:30 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : In Person
PL Hours : 6.50
Event Segment
Date / Time
9 Apr 2019 Starts: 08:30 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : In Person
PL Hours : 6.50
Event Segment
Date / Time
21 May 2019 Starts: 08:30 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : In Person
PL Hours : 6.50
Event Segment
Date / Time
11 Jun 2019 Starts: 08:30 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : In Person
PL Hours : 6.50
Learning Area
- Literacy
School Area
- Middle Primary (3-6)
- Secondary (7-10)
- Senior Secondary (11 - 12)