WRITING 2024

Improving Writing Outcomes Project- Session 4 of 4

Area of focus

Literacy

When

9:00 am - 4:00 pm Thu 7th Nov 2024

Where

The Grange Estate, 4A Commonwealth Lane, Campbell Town, TAS, 7210

Who should attend

Staff from Independent Schools who have attended the previous sessions:

  • Literacy Leaders.
  • Teachers.

Who is speaking

Linda McKillop, Suzie Keil, Sarah Woodcock-Davis.

Overview

This is the last in a series of 4 practical and interactive sessions that aim to support teachers and Literacy Leaders to build their capacity and pedagogical knowledge in the writing domain. Schools and teachers will once again be offered the opportunity to have one of our consultants visit their school to offer support, mentoring and feedback.

Content

Recent research has highlighted the need for high quality professional learning options for teachers in the writing domain. Such professional learning should include building teacher knowledge about the qualities of good writing and explicit sentence level instruction.

Session 4 will cover:

  • Unpacking V9 of the Australian Curriculum.
  • Data literacy - interpreting student writing results from this year’s NAPLAN results and using the data to inform practice.
  • Tips on how to writing assess writing.
  • The Writing Revolution Session 2, including the importance of developing a whole school approach to establish consistency in curriculum and the teaching of writing.
  • An introduction to the Organisation Trait.
  • Follow up and sharing of practice and ideas from previous session.
  • An opportunity for reflection and celebration.


For full details of our Improving Writing Outcomes Project and/or to register for the project, please click the following link:


Improving Writing Outcomes Project Registration Page

What you will learn

This professional learning will include content that falls within the following AITSL Standards and/or the National Quality Standard:

AITSL FOCUS AREAS

  • 1.2.
  • 2.5.
  • 5.2.
  • 6.2.
  • 6.3.

Click link below for a copy of the AITSL Standards:

AITSL STANDARDS



NATIONAL QUALITY STANDARD ELEMENTS:

  • N/a.

Click link below for a copy of the National Quality Standard:

NATIONAL QUALITY STANDARD

Important information

Cancellation:

If you have registered for this event (see Terms and Conditions below) and are subsequently unable to attend, we ask that you advise us of your absence as soon as possible.

For this session, please email any such notice of cancellation to: swoodcockdavis@ist.tas.edu.au

Terms and Conditions:

All participants are required to individually register to attend this session. If you do not register for the event you will not receive a certificate of attendance.

Registration Confirmation:

For any issues receiving your registration confirmation please check your spam/junk folder, for further assistance please email professionallearning@ist.tas.edu.au

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