Literacy work in schools
The English Teacher Guru has been busy. Here are some of the schools and organisations he has worked with recently.
March 2010
- Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (Darling Downs): ‘Writing Compressed Narratives for NAPLAN’
- Western Learning Network (Brisbane): ‘Strategies for supporting reading and writing of struggling students’ and ‘Teaching writing: what really counts?’
- Padua College: ‘Seven Secrets Students Need to Know Before September (QCS Writing Task)’ (for students)
- Sheldon College: ‘Writing Compressed Narratives for NAPLAN’
- Wynnum State High School: ‘Seven Secrets Students Need to Know Before September (QCS Writing Task)’ (for students)
April 2010
- Franciscan Schools’ Conference (Padua College): ‘Practical Strategies for Developing Reading Comprehension’; ‘Writing Compressed Narratives for NAPLAN and QCS Writing Tasks’; ‘Everyday Literacy Implications of the Literacy Demands of National Testing’
- Association of Independent Schools (South Australia): ‘Practical Grammar’
- Western Learning Network (Brisbane): ‘Practical ideas for developing inferential comprehension’ and ‘Writing effective student assessment tasks’
- Ryan Catholic College (Townsville): ‘Seven Secrets Students Need to Know Before September (QCS Writing Task)’ (for students); ’Writing Compressed Narratives for NAPLAN’ (for students); ’Practical ideas for developing inferential comprehension’; ‘English and the Aesthetic’; ‘Practical Grammar’
May 2010
- Fairholme College (Toowoomba): ‘Seven Secrets Students Need to Know Before September (QCS Writing Task)’ (for students); ’English and the Aesthetic’ (staff); ‘Literacy Demands of Testing and Academic Reading and Writing’ (staff)
June 2010
- Padua College (Brisbane): general literacy PD
July 2010
- Balmoral State High School: presentation to students in writing compressed narratives
- Kirwan State High School (Townsville): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Cathedral College (Townsville): student presentations on QCS Writing Task
- Canon Hill College (Brisbane): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Bayside College (Brisbane): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Dalby State High School and Our Lady of the Southern Cross College: student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’ and teacher presentations on improving student writing
- Merrimac State High School (Gold Coast): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Balmoral State High School: literacy PD for staff
August 2010
- St Ursula’s College (Toowoomba): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Helensvale State High School (Gold Coast): literacy PD for staff
- Victoria Point State High School (Brisbane): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- English Teachers Association of Queensland State Conference: workshop on Australian English Curriculum
- St Laurence’s College (Brisbane): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Tara State College: student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Nudgee College (Brisbane): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Wynnum State High School (Brisbane): student presentation on the ‘Seven Secrets’
- Australian Literacy Educator’s Association (Toowoomba): keynote address and workshop on Australian National Curriculum
September 2010
- King’s Baptist College (Adelaide): staff workshops on grammar and persuasion
October
- Balmoral State High School (Brisbane): staff workshops on literacy
