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Additonal Professional Development for NT DEET staff

The timetable below provides detail of all Accelerated Literacy Workshops already scheduled for 2008 for NT AL School staff. Only NT AL School staff can apply to attend these workshops. Please contact the DEET NALP team office on 8999 3228 for further information and application requirements.

timetable

 

Professional Development

Accelerated Literacy Professional Development intensive workshop

Due to increased demand, Charles Darwin University is now offering an intensive five-day workshop in the Accelerated Literacy method. The course will be both theoretical and practical, equipping participants to use the methodology in their day-to-day literacy teaching.

2008 Course Dates

September 29 - October 3

Professional Development Intensive course information

For NT DEET staff and NT Accelerated Literacy school staff:

• flyer
• enrolment from

For all other practitioners (outside of NT DEET schools or NT Accelerated Literacy schools)

• flyer
• enrolment form

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Other professional development

NALP's training package has three professional development (PD) sessions:

Professional Development One (PD1) - a two day course

Professional Development Two (PD2) - a one day course

Professional Development Three (PD3) - a one day course

PD1 aims to provide teachers with skills to implement the Accelerated Literacy teaching sequence. As well as the theories that underpin the program, the emphasis is on developing a routine that includes literate orientation, transformations and spelling. PD2 and PD3 focus on spelling and writing.

All three sessions include handouts for teachers, which serve as a reminder of key aspects of the sessions and an aid to workshop activities during the sessions.

Professional Development One (PD1) –

An introduction to Accelerated Literacy

PD1 provides background information to the Accelerated Literacy program and introduces the key concepts that underpin the program. It aims to provide enough information and support for participants to start to teach Accelerated Literacy to their class.

This session covers:

Day one

• Background
• Teaching the discourse of schooling
• The difference between oral and literate discourse
• Consequences of working on low-level oral texts over time
• How to teach literate discourse to students with low literacy levels
• The Zone of Proximal Development
• The Accelerated Literacy teaching sequence
• Preparation and planning for teaching the Accelerated Literacy teaching sequence
• Implementing the Accelerated Literacy teaching sequence

Day two
Contains transcripts of two lessons on ‘The Lion and the Mouse’.  These transcripts allow participants to reflect on the lessons and what to discuss from them, without always having to watch the video.  The transcripts have been divided into lesson stages and annotated with times that match the video.   The transcripts comprise:
Day 1:  Low Order Book Orientation and High Order Book Orientation
Day 2:  Low Order Book Orientation; High Order Book Orientation and Transformations

Professional Development 2 (PD2) – Transformations and Spelling

The aim of PD2 is to investigate how children learn to spell and how this spelling knowledge is taught through the Accelerated Literacy teaching sequence.  The role of transformations in spelling is also covered, with particular emphasis on how transformations can be used to prepare children for working on spelling.

PD2 is comprised of:

Part one - focuses on the stages of spelling and the complexity of spelling knowledge students need to learn as they develop into correct spellers. This session also includes discussions about the importance of avoiding mental overload and stress in the learning process, and how the Accelerated Literacy teaching sequence deals with this by spelling from words the children know well.

Part two - discussion returns to transformations and how they are used to bring students to a point where they have some known words which can then be used as a resource for spelling.The session then returns to spelling again to consider activities that scaffold students into negotiating the stages of spelling as effectively as possible. This is supported by some video examples of transformations and spelling at different year levels.

Professional Development 3 (PD3) -

Writing

PD3 investigates oral and written language in more details by reviewing an important concept (briefly covered in PD1) on which teaching in the program is based: that to teach students to be fully participating members of a literate society we have to teach from literate texts.

The session covers:

• The difference between oral and written language
• A review of the Accelerated Literacy teaching sequence
• Writing techniques used in narrative texts
• How to teach writing techniques

 

For further information on the Professional Development training sessions, please contact the DEET NALP team.