English Professional Learning

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

NSW CURRICULUM REFORM

NSW DoE literacy statewide staffroom (teams)

You will need to join the TEAMS channel to access the professional learning recordings. Well worth adding to your dashboard.

nsw dept digital curriculum

Effective Reading

NSW DEPT OF EDUCATION

PODCAST

COGNITIVE LOAD THEORY

Research from cognitive load theory has produced a number of instructional techniques that are directly transferable to the classroom.

cOGNITIVE LOAD AND

READING INSTRUCTION

Differentiated Instruction

science of reading PODCAST

Science of Reading: The Podcast delivers the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading. Each episode takes a conversational approach and explores a timely topic related to the Science of Reading.

knowledge for teachers PODCAST

Knowledge for teachers: In the Knowledge for Teachers podcast, host Brendan Lee will be chatting to researchers, teachers and experts about what evidence-informed education is and the nuances involved with actually implementing effective and sustainable school based education.

Shanahan on literacy

Timothy Shanahan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he was Founding Director of the UIC Center for Literacy. Previously, he was director of reading for the Chicago Public Schools. He is author/editor of more than 200 publications on literacy education. His research emphasizes the connections between reading and writing, literacy in the disciplines, and improvement of reading achievement.

Tim is past president of the International Literacy Association. He served as a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Literacy under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and he helped lead the National Reading Panel, convened at the request of Congress to evaluate research on the teaching reading, a major influence on reading education. He chaired two other federal research review panels: the National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth, and the National Early Literacy Panel, and helped write the Common Core State Standards.

He was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2007, and is a former first-grade teacher.

Emina Mclean blog

Emina's background is in speech-language pathology, education, child and adolescent psychiatry, and public health. She is a researcher, lecturer, primary school English and Literacy leader, and doctoral student, researching the reading and writing skills of university students. Emina also works as a professional learning provider, consultant, and coach in schools across Australia.

Emina's interests are evidence-based practice in education, language and literacy instruction, cognition, mental health, pedagogy, professional learning, and the speech pathology-teaching interface in schools. She is passionate about working with teachers to develop rigorous literary assessment and instructional practices.

At a loss for words

How a Flawed Idea is Teaching Millions of Kids to be Poor Readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.

By Emily Handford

Retrieval practice

Retrieval practice boosts learning by pulling information out of students’ heads, rather than trying to cram information in. We want to decrease the extraneous load on our students working memory by embedding knowledge into their long term memory. If we can increase how often the learner has to retrieve information, “every time that information is retrieved, or an answer is generated, it changes that original memory to make it stronger” (Jones, 2020).

tips for teachers

This is a free new resource created by the amazing Craig Barton and includes links to podcasts and videos from people such as Dylan Wiliam, Harry Fletcher-Wood, Kate Jones, Tom Sherrington, Adam Boxer and many more. There are topics such as lesson planning, assessment, questioning, learning and remembering, behaviour and relationships.

Australian education research organisation

AERO’s vision is for Australia to achieve excellence and equity in educational outcomes for all children and young people through effective use of evidence.

In support of this vision, we:

generate high-quality evidence
present high-quality evidence that is relevant and accessible
encourage adoption and effective implementation of evidence in practice and policy.

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