| English
Learning Area - What’s News
Welcome
Principal
Education Officer - English
Steven
Figg
I hope you find the revised English website engaging, useful and easy
to navigate.
This website is the
core resource for teachers of English working with the Essential
Learnings Framework and English syllabuses in Tasmania.
It contains teaching ideas, curriculum advice, news, reviews, information
on professional learning programs and multiple links to other sites.
Research tells us that the site receives heavy
usage.
The English website was conceived and developed under the
visionary
leadership of the former Principal Education Officer - English, Charles
Morgan.
The English website will continue
to be an effective resource only if teachers keep on contributing to it.
If you have a teaching idea, unit of work, review, report, case study,
editorial - whatever - that you would be prepared to submit to the site,
please contact me through enquiries on line,
by phone (03) 6233 7284 or fax (03) 6233 6983. Your contribution will
be greatly appreciated by your professional colleagues.
Guided
Tour
This
tour will help you explore the different sections of the English website.
You will discover how the site operates and become familiar with some
of the material it contains. You do not need to complete all of the activities
— simply focus on what interests you.
You
may find it useful to print out this page before beginning your tour.
Alternatively, you can use the back button on your computer to return
to this section.
Home
Page
1. Click on
search and type in "asking better questions". This will
take you to a discussion about effective classroom questioning. Find a
teaching strategy to try with students.
2. Use the search function to locate links to author websites.
Have a look at one of the sites and reflect on its usefulness as a resource
for your teaching.
3. Look at recent additions. Find a teaching idea to use in your
classroom.
What's
News
4.
Go to Competitions and find the Nestle Write Around
Australia Competition. Go into the Nestles
site and find an approach to support student writing under "tips"
5. Go to
the professional association websites. Explore one of these sites and
find out about upcoming workshops and conferences.
6. Go to the TQA link and find out about
the new English syllabuses.
Especially
for Teachers
7.
Go to About English and click on "writing". Look at the
case study entitled "targeting text: a guided writing project".
Think about the important elements of this approach that support student
writing.
8. Go to Teaching English and click on "Key Learning Processes"
and look at "negotiation". Find some material/ideas to use in
your classroom to support this important learning process.
9. Click on "Choosing and Using Texts". Have a look at "strategies
to introduce texts". Find one or two new strategies to use with your
students.
10. Click on "Teachers Talk Teaching". Find a teaching approach
you could incorporate into your classroom.
11. Click on "Ongoing elements of an English Program". Look
at "classroom culture". Reflect on how you could use this information
to help you set up your classroom.
12.
Click on "Integrating English". What are the differences between
integrated and thematic approaches? Consider some ideas for developing
a unit that integrates English and the Arts.
13.
Go to Teaching Ideas and Units. Look closely at one of the units
and think about how you could use it with your students. Explore some
of the other links in this section. You will find lots of great teaching
ideas in "English Online New Zealand".
14.
Go to Teaching Strategies. Find a strategy you have not tried and
consider how you could incorporate it into your teaching.
15.
Go to Resources. Click on "links" and explore some of
the great sites available to support your work. This could take you a
long time!
Especially for Students
16.
Go to Book Raps and have a look at the "Ozteachernet"
bookrap calendar. Find a rap you could encourage your students to join.
Have a quick look at the archives to develop understanding of how a book
rap works. Think about how you might incorporate a book rap into your
teaching program and how you might use a book rap for assessment purposes?
17.
Click on "Discover Student Web Forums". Have a look at the texts
being discussed. Find a book discussion you could encourage your students
to join.
18.
Look at Links for Students. Identify one or two interesting sites
you could introduce to your students.
You
have now completed your tour. Of course, there is a lot more material
you could explore, but you should now have a better idea about how the
site operates and what it contains. Please send a message to me through
Enquiries Online if you have any suggestions
for improving the site.
Remember: If in doubt about where to find something, use the Search
function.
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