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Useful material for teachers and students

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2013 memberships now due

Registrations now open
http://www.englishliteracyconference.com.au/index.php?id=46&year=1

Annual Conference: Call for Papers

This years conference, Innovation, is all about the art of implementing new ideas. Let us seize the opportunity of the release of the NSW Syllabus K-10 and the new HSC Prescriptions to revisit and renew our programs and practices.
ETA (NSW) invites English teachers and educators to submit outlines for presentations, posters and workshops that address the following aspects of innovation for the teaching and learning of secondary English:

Ideas for implementing the new English K-10 syllabus
HSC text prescriptions
Concept based programming
Managing change and faculty renewal

Online response to Call for Papers here

Forthcoming Events

July

26th July Refining your Program
27th July Learn to think → Think to learn: Making English meaningful, relevant and engaging.
31st July 3rd Session of the Head teacher Series - Personalising the Learning. Consider joining our AITSL funded research project.

August

31st August HSC Students CountDown

November

22nd and 23rd November Annual Conference: Innovation

More detailed information on all events and online booking.

Programming for the New Syllabus

A resource on programming the new syllabus has been written with collaborative faculty professional development in mind and can be used for faculty meetings. It has three sections

Essential Programming - outlining the basics of producing a program
Understanding Program Design - going into greater detail about aspects of programming
Theoretical Underpinnings - for those who wish to extend their professional development in curriculum study

and contains activities for and approaches to programming as well as recordings of PowerPoint presentations at the ETA programming conference. This may be purchased through the ETA shop.

The other faculty package developed for the new syllabus is Teaching Voice, which offers ways of teaching and programming this element of English from years 7-10 as a foundation for the concept in Years 11 and 12. View Table of Contents. Both packages are available for online purchase at ETA shop.