Where do I start? Stimulating ideas for literacy-rich primary classrooms

Attention:

Classroom teachers, Librarians, Beginning teachers, Stage coordinators 

Title:

Where do I start? Stimulating ideas for literacy-rich primary classrooms  

Presenter:

Robyn Wild  

Date:
Time:

Monday 15 March 2010
3.30 pm for registration/tea & coffee 4pm start– 6 pm finish 

Venue: 

Building 23, G, Room 2
Bankstown Campus – University of Western Sydney Bullecourt Avenue Milperra 

Cost: 

$40 per person (includes copy of Robyn’s book) and afternoon tea  

Program details: 

This professional development will provide teachers with effective literacy teaching and learning strategies to enhance planning and development of primary students. The focus is on how teachers should teach reading and writing, making students confident readers and writers, and planning and preparing reading and writing activities. 

Standards: 

2 Teachers know their students and how they learn
2.2.2 Apply knowledge of the typical stages of students’ physical, social and intellectual development as well as an awareness of exceptions to general patterns.
2.2.3 Apply practical and theoretical knowledge and understandings of the different approaches to learning to enhance student outcomes.
6. Teachers continually improve their professional knowledge and practice.
6.2.3 Teachers engage in professional development to extend and refine teaching and learning practices.
7.Teachers are actively engaged members of their profession and the wider community
7.2.4 Interact and network with colleagues and community stakeholders in educational forums.  

Registration: 

Go to: https://ipay.uws.edu.au/intro.asp to register and pay for the course for the course. Ipay offers the facility to pay by cheque (which schools require), credit card or B Pay.