Housekeeping

Hunter ETA New Syllabus Afternoon

HSPA 4.30 – 6.30

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Housekeeping

• Tea, coffee, afternoon tea• Payment• Parking• Dinner• Resources available electronically• Toilets

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Best Practice/ Next Practice‘What is needed is a profession that constantly and collectively builds its knowledge base and corresponding expertise. And there needs to be a mix of committing to best practice and having the freedom, space and resources to create next practice. (p. 50)

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The big picture issues• Appreciating the English language• Focus on Asia• Understanding ATSI cultures• Sustainability and environment• Catering for EAD students• Grammar – more on this later!• Comprehension strategies – FoR? Continuum?• Specifics: spelling, punctuation, handwriting,

referencing• The challenges for K-6 are different! (next slide!)• Implementation

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http://www.tale.edu.au/tale/live/teachers/shared/BC/English_engaging_text.pdf

From the ‘Engaging personally with text’ course on the ‘Resources’ tab.

The English/ Literacy Challenge

What else could we add into the diagram?

Other key messages• The Australian Curriculum has been embedded in NSW

BOS syllabuses, which will begin implementation in 2014.

• The literacy and numeracy continuums are compatible• Those schools ‘doing’ Focus on reading, AL, L3, TOWN,

and even Best Start, will find that the syllabuses are an extension of the learning they have done

• Diversity, meeting the needs of all students, including those with learning difficulties is central to the new syllabuses

• A genuine continuum of learning

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Focus on implementation• What resources are you already

familiar with? What have you seen from DEC, Independent sectors, BOS? What do you like the look of?

• Brief discussions and report.

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Focus on implementation

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On-line tour available if we have a live connection!

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Try out this activity…

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Try this one out, too!

A critical reading of the new syllabus

Mel Dixon and Eva Gold, ETA New Syllabus Day.

Powerpoints available to members on the website: http://www.englishteacher.com.au/Events/ConferencePapers.aspx

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Sally Humphrey, Kristina Love, Louise Droga, Working Grammar.(Pearson Australia, 2011)

See p.116 for example

Practical Grammar

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Mel Dixon

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Alternatives?• Start with a theme?

• Start with a text?

• Cross-curricular?

• Skills first?• Backward

mapped approaches?

• Best Practice/ Next practice?

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Karen Yager – Concept-based approaches

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Concepts? The excel file…

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Try it for yourself!

• Is this a useful way into the new outcomes and content?

• What is your preferred method of program development?

• Will an activity like this help refresh your current scope and sequence, and your units?

• What else do you think you’ll try?

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