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Housekeeping

Housekeeping. Hunter ETA New Syllabus Afternoon HSPA 4.30 – 6.30. Housekeeping. Tea, coffee, afternoon tea P ayment Parking Dinner Resources available electronically Toilets. Best Practice/ Next Practice.

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Housekeeping

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  1. Housekeeping Hunter ETA New Syllabus Afternoon HSPA 4.30 – 6.30 Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  2. Housekeeping • Tea, coffee, afternoon tea • Payment • Parking • Dinner • Resources available electronically • Toilets Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  3. 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) Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  4. 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 Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  5. The English/ Literacy Challenge From the ‘Engaging personally with text’ course on the ‘Resources’ tab. What else could we add into the diagram? http://www.tale.edu.au/tale/live/teachers/shared/BC/English_engaging_text.pdf Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  6. 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 Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  7. 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. Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  8. Focus on implementation Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  9. On-line tour available if we have a live connection! Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

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  11. Try out this activity… Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  12. Try this one out, too! Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  13. 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 Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

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  20. Sally Humphrey, Kristina Love, Louise Droga, Working Grammar. (Pearson Australia, 2011) See p.116 for example Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  21. Practical Grammar Mel Dixon Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

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  23. Alternatives? • Start with a theme? • Start with a text? • Cross-curricular? • Skills first? • Backward mapped approaches? • Best Practice/ Next practice? Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  24. Karen Yager – Concept-based approaches Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  25. Concepts? The excel file… Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

  26. 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? Hunter ETA New Syllabus afternoon

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