Session and Presenter Information
Virginia Ayliffe
Virginia Ayliffe is Principal Project Officer for Literacy in the Policy and Resource Development Unit, K-12 Resources branch of the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). She is an experienced teacher of English in Queensland schools.
Prep – Year 6: Feedback to improve writing
What is feedback?
What opportunities are there for feedback in the Languages learning area in the Australian Curriculum?
What does feedback for writing look like?
Practical strategies for feedback and writing.
Year 7-10 Cognitions in the Australian Curriculum: Understanding their impact on writing
What are cognitions?
Where can we find them in the Languages learning area in the Australian Curriculum?
How can we support writing to demonstrate the cognitions?
Practical strategies for skills to improve writing.
Virginia Ayliffe is Principal Project Officer for Literacy in the Policy and Resource Development Unit, K-12 Resources branch of the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). She is an experienced teacher of English in Queensland schools.
Prep – Year 6: Feedback to improve writing
What is feedback?
What opportunities are there for feedback in the Languages learning area in the Australian Curriculum?
What does feedback for writing look like?
Practical strategies for feedback and writing.
Year 7-10 Cognitions in the Australian Curriculum: Understanding their impact on writing
What are cognitions?
Where can we find them in the Languages learning area in the Australian Curriculum?
How can we support writing to demonstrate the cognitions?
Practical strategies for skills to improve writing.
Kay Bence
Kay Bence is an Experienced Senior Teacher in Queensland who has taught Chinese from Years 6 and 7 to 12 for almost 25 years. She has been a strong supporter of the shift to Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching CCLT for about six years, conducting workshops in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne encouraging teachers to make the shift but more importantly providing a ‘how to’ approach to making that shift in the classroom.
It takes times and certainly cannot be achieved in one year. Teachers need to experiment with ideas and strategies til they find what they can most competently employ to reach the goal of a CI classroom.
It is relatively easy to talk about what you are going to do in class to make your CI lessons but Kay wants these workshops to focus on creating a journey of stepping stones so that teachers can actually use CI to get to their goal of a CI classroom.
Stepping Stones to Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching CCLT for the Junior School.
Stepping Stones to Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching CCLT for the Middle School.
Kay Bence is an Experienced Senior Teacher in Queensland who has taught Chinese from Years 6 and 7 to 12 for almost 25 years. She has been a strong supporter of the shift to Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching CCLT for about six years, conducting workshops in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne encouraging teachers to make the shift but more importantly providing a ‘how to’ approach to making that shift in the classroom.
It takes times and certainly cannot be achieved in one year. Teachers need to experiment with ideas and strategies til they find what they can most competently employ to reach the goal of a CI classroom.
It is relatively easy to talk about what you are going to do in class to make your CI lessons but Kay wants these workshops to focus on creating a journey of stepping stones so that teachers can actually use CI to get to their goal of a CI classroom.
Stepping Stones to Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching CCLT for the Junior School.
- What does a CI classroom look like? What do you think your CI classroom could look like next year? – Identify the goals that you want to achieve by the end of next year.
- Obstacles to implementing a CCLT approach – Some things you can change and some you can’t and how these impact on achieving your goals.
- Discussion and demonstration of a key CI activities teachers can use in Week 1 of 2019
- Examination of a range of beginning activities already in use that can be converted to CI activities
- Small group practice of key TPRS strategies as well as basic storytelling, and student interaction
Stepping Stones to Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching CCLT for the Middle School.
- What does a CI classroom look like? What do you think your CI classroom could look like next year? – Identify the goals that you want to achieve by the end of next year.
- Obstacles to implementing a CCLT approach – Some things you can change and some you can’t and how these impact on achieving your goals.
- Discussion and demonstration of a key CI activities teachers can use in Week 1 of 2019
- Examination of a range of beginning activities already in use that can be converted to CI activities
- Small group practice of key TPRS strategies as well as basic storytelling, and student interaction
Margot Johnston
Margot Johnston is a teacher of Chinese and French at St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School. Margot has a keen interest in technology in both her personal and professional life. She uses a range of digital tools to engage students in their learning and inform her teaching.
Finding the Right Technology
This workshop will introduce you to a range of digital tools, including Nearpod, Powtoon, some free quality PowerPoint game templates as well as unique and fun activities you can create in Onenote, and other tools that can be used to engage students in their learning and collect data on student progress. After seeing and experiencing the tools from a student’s perspective, teachers will have the opportunity to play with and explore the tools that interest them, with the presenter on hand to help and offer advice. Bring your own laptop or use the computers in the room to get started on building a digital toolkit with your own topics and classes in mind.
Margot Johnston is a teacher of Chinese and French at St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School. Margot has a keen interest in technology in both her personal and professional life. She uses a range of digital tools to engage students in their learning and inform her teaching.
Finding the Right Technology
This workshop will introduce you to a range of digital tools, including Nearpod, Powtoon, some free quality PowerPoint game templates as well as unique and fun activities you can create in Onenote, and other tools that can be used to engage students in their learning and collect data on student progress. After seeing and experiencing the tools from a student’s perspective, teachers will have the opportunity to play with and explore the tools that interest them, with the presenter on hand to help and offer advice. Bring your own laptop or use the computers in the room to get started on building a digital toolkit with your own topics and classes in mind.