Course description
All teachers want their students to be effective learners.
In order to achieve this, our secondary students must be effective readers.
This professional learning day is designed to upskill secondary teachers with ways to support their students to access the rich, challenging texts taught across the ACF, TASC and VET curricula.
Emina McLean will assist teachers to develop their understanding of ways to plan for and explicitly teach subject vocabulary, build reading fluency across the curriculum, and also provide scaffolds for accountable independent reading tasks.
Teachers will develop a deeper understanding of text complexity in their subject areas, and ways to tailor the reading tasks to match text with student knowledge and skills.
Emina will also guide teachers through documenting their planning for reading in their subjects, and through reflective practices, assess the impact of these changes on teaching and learning.
This professional learning will support the staged implementation of structured literacy within a multi-tiered system of support.
Course outcomes
Participants will develop a deeper understanding of:
- Text complexity in their subject area/s
- Ways to plan for and explicitly teach subject vocabulary
- Ways to build reading fluency across the curriculum
- Approaches to improving reading comprehension across the curriculum
- Accountable independent reading tasks to support the learning of subject content
- Ways to tailor the reading tasks to match text complexity and student knowledge and skills
- Reflective practices to assess the impact of changes to teaching and learning
- Instruction, assessment and curriculum
Australian Professional Standards
- Standard 2 – Know content and how to teach it
- Standard 3 – Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
- Standard 5 – Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
- Standard 6 – Engage in professional learning