Across two workshops, Beverly Derewianka will work with participants to explore how we can support students鈥� writing achievement as they progress through the middle years, valuing the distinctive contributions of primary and secondary teachers. Across the two sessions we will focus on what evidence-based, explicit teaching and knowledge building actually look like in practice and how to embed the process of writing a text in an authentic curriculum task.
The Australian Curriculum (AC) requires students to become confident at comprehending and creating texts in all learning areas. The demands for comprehending and creating texts becomes increasingly complex across the transition from primary to secondary schools. This increasing complexity of curriculum demands includes engagement with multimodal and hybrid texts and discipline-specific ways of using language.
Across two sessions, we will explore how we can support students’ writing achievement as they progress through the middle years, valuing the distinctive contributions of primary and secondary teachers. Across the two sessions we will focus on what evidence-based, explicit teaching and knowledge building actually look like in practice and how to embed the process of writing a text in an authentic curriculum task, including:
PLEASE NOTE the following:
Because this 2 session workshop with Beverly Derewianka will be delivered online via Zoom, it is open to 美姬社区Members, as well as Non-Members, in both Australia and other countries.
THESE WORKSHOP SESSIONS WILL NOT BE RECORDED and LATE REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE.
Please contact the organiser 美姬社区Meanjin President - Frances Hoyte at fhoyte@tpg.com.au if you have any questions about this professional learning event.
Beverly Derewianka is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has worked in the field of Language Education at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels, and has spent over thirty years as a literacy/EAL teacher educator at the Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral levels.
Beverly has acted as consultant to various curriculum bodies nationally and internationally, contributing to policy design and assessment procedures. She has written several extremely useful and much championed books for teachers based on her research into students’ literacy development. Her publications include Exploring How Texts Work, A (New) Grammar Companion: For Teachers, School Discourse: Learning to Write across the Years of Schooling (with Frances Christie) and Teaching Language in Context (with Pauline Jones).
Although officially retired, Beverly currently works with schools in all states of Australia and overseas supporting teachers in raising students’ literacy outcomes.
Online Via Zoom - A Zoom Meeting Link will be sent at least two days prior to the first session.
$ 60 Individual (non-student) Members
$ 30 Individual Student Members & Retired Members
$ 90 Institutional/School Sub-members (for each Sub-member)
$ 180 Non-Members
$ 50 Non-Member Students
ALL Prices are inclusive of GST.
SCHOOL SUB-MEMBER Reminder: To be sure your school sub-members are charged the Sub-Member price make sure you register each person separately, and that they are listed as sub-members on your school membership profile. If your school's primary email contact is attending the workshop, they also need to be listed as a sub-member on the school's membership profile.
ALSO, Members, please make sure you use the email address associated with your 美姬社区Membership when registering, to ensure you are charged Member prices.
PLEASE NOTE: ALEA’s Online Professional Learning guidelines, Privacy Statement, and Refund and Cancellation Policy apply to this event. View the policies at www.alea.edu.au/about/alea-policies-and-procedures/
REGISTRATION for the 2 Workshops CLOSES 5:00 p.m. (AEST) Monday 25 August 2025.
A Zoom meeting link will be sent to registrants two days before the first workshop. This will be the Zoom meeting link for both sessions.
To contact the event organisers, email Frances Hoyte - 美姬社区Meanjin Local Council President at fhoyte@tpg.com.au
For help with membership status, contact the 美姬社区National Office at office@alea.edu.au
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Meet your Teacher Registration requirementsIf you are a Queensland educator then you might use this professional learning opportunity to meet the Queensland College of Teachers (QCT) teacher registration requirements, which are, as follows:
The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) you undertake must have regard to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and demonstrate:
A balance across the following areas
Employer/school directed and supported CPD
Teacher identified CPD
A range of types of CPD activities
Completion of at least the minimum annual amount required.
AITSL Teacher StandardsParticipate in this Professional Learning event to fulfill AITSL standards 6.1, 6.2, & 7.2:
2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area.
6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs.
6.3 Engage in professional learning and improve practice
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7.4 Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities