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2009 AATE/ ALEA National Conference, Wrest Point Conference Centre 9-12 July FRIDAY 11.00 - 12.30 Derwent 3 Audience: Secondary Bridge the divide: supporting students to deal with the literacy demands across all learning areas CHRISTOPHER WITT, LYNDA CUMMING Many learning area teachers baulk at the idea of having to teach ‘reading’ or ‘writing’ to their students, especially when there is so much content to get through. These teachers would also agree that student success would be enhanced across the middle and secondary schools with improved literacy skills. It is possible to bridge this divide and support students to deal with the literacy demands in learning areas, at the same time as enhancing content understanding. This session will explore a repertoire of literacy strategies that can be applied to a variety of texts generally used across learning areas. It will also explore highly practical and innovative teaching and learning activities linked to the improved use of these strategies. These ideas can be taken straight back to any classroom to successfully support the literacy demands of different learning areas in middle and secondary schools. Come along and gather some practical, hands-on approaches and ideas to use and to share with subject area teachers in your school. Biographies Christopher Witt is a consultant for STEPS Professional Development based in South Australia. He is currently creating a professional development resource for middle/secondary teachers to help students deal with literacy demands across all learning areas. Previous to this, Chris was the Curriculum Adviser for the Hills Murraylands District in South Australia. For five years he enjoyed supporting teachers across the District to improve literacy and mathematics teaching and outcomes. Lynda Cumming is an educational consultant with STEPS Professional Development specialising in literacy. In this role Lynda conducts professional development courses for K-10 teachers nationally and internationally. Prior to joining the STEPS team in 2007, Lynda worked for the Education Department of Western Australia for over 25 years. She enjoyed a variety of roles including classroom teacher, specialist literacy teacher and leadership positions in schools. 11.00 - 12.30 Wellington 1 Audience: Primary Secondary Accelerating progress in Grades 3-8 literacy: comprehension scores and more … NEAL PITCHES Neale Pitches will discuss new research evidence-based teaching and learning approaches that show promise for accelerated literacy progress for all students in Grades 3 to 8 – offering more equitable outcomes for ESOL students and strugglers and excellence for able readers. Neale will share an international, Australian and New Zealand research base, and the teaching/ learning approaches that come from it. He will offer a ‘21st Century’ vision for shared and guided reading – improving comprehension scores, vocabulary and fluency. He will use a variety of short texts from English, science, maths and social studies literacy. He’ll show video models, hyperlinked glossaries for vocabulary instruction, digital teaching tools and classroom data (from New Zealand AsTTle testing) that show promise of stunning acceleration. He will also discuss how to build background knowledge and how students work cooperatively on difficult texts to ‘crack the code’, then become reflective readers in a classroom learning community. Neale will focus on metacognition – often the missing strategy in literacy instruction – and show ways to deeply engage students in their learning and monitoring their own progress. He will demonstrate real-time enquiry learning using digital texts and show practical examples of modeling, thinkaloud, interactive whole-group instruction, interactive guided reading, audio-assisted learning, cooperative learning and independent application – to benefit comprehension, vocabulary and fluency learning in Grades 3 to 8. 24
Bridging Divides: ensuring access, equity and quality in literacy and English education Biography Neale Pitches is CEO of Lift Education in New Zealand. Following a career as a teacher and principal in rural, inner city and suburban schools, Neale became the founding CEO of Learning Media, a company dedicated to the publication of quality classroom literacy and numeracy resources. Neale presents internationally on literacy and school leadership, focusing on how to teach comprehension strategies across the curriculum and on the alignment of school leadership with effective practice. He continues to pioneer innovative literacy materials through his leadership of CSI: Comprehension Strategies Instruction, a mixed digital, audio and hard copy resource for middle schooling. Neale was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education in 2003. FRIDAY 11.00 - 12.30 Tasman B Audience: Early Years Bridging the divide with Writer’s Notebook: highlighting Grades K - 2 EMMA FOLO, JENNY CLEMENTS, SARAH STENTON A whole school approach to develop young writers who are engaged, are explicitly taught the craft of writing and can select from a range of text forms has created a buzz at St Leonards Primary School in Launceston. The key to engaging students in writing is the Writer’s Notebook - personalised in Grades 3 to 6, and whole class Prep to Grade 2. Notebooks are filled with thoughts, ideas, observations and things we wonder about, hope for or want to know more about. The main emphasis of the notebook in the early years is to scaffold the students’ learning about writing and develop their thinking skills through whole class modelling and discussion. During Grade 2, students start to explore their own seeds, often in partnership with their older buddies. Classes place their idea (or seed) into their notebook, do some exploratory thinking and then shape their idea into a topic or text type. Teachers model the use of a range of simple scaffolds to support their unpacking of ideas. Critical to the success of this approach is the explicit teaching of different text forms. This starts here in the early years when teachers discuss, model and create shared texts. Each student in Grades 3 to 6 has a personalised Writer’s Gift - a celebration of published work. Each and every child is given the support needed to achieve success. Our primary students are now able to articulate the purpose of their writing and the forms it can take. St Leonards was the 2007 Tasmanian National Excellence in Literacy winner with writing revitalised and learning outcomes improved with this whole school focus. Biographies Emma Folo is an early childhood teacher at St. Leonards Primary School who is currently working in Kindergarten and Flying Start. She is a Literacy Mentor and has used Writer’s Notebook in classes from K-2. Jenny Clements is currently teaching Grade 5/6 at St Leonards. She has been a Literacy Resource Teacher and is a Literacy Mentor and a Speaking and Listening First Steps Facilitator. She has also been involved in helping disseminate the Writer’s Notebook concept to early childhood teachers for Learning Services North. Sarah Stenton is teaching Prep/1 at St Leonards Primary School and has been involved in the Literacy Mentor Program. She was also a spokesperson on our DVD called Writing Rocks at St. Leonards. 25
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