Supporting students’ literacy development in science: webinar 6 [postponed from Oct. 21]
Supporting students’ literacy development in science [postponed from Oct 21.]
Online professional development in teaching secondary science to EAL/D students
Webinar 6 – Integrating science, language and literacy
Science teachers | EAL/D teachers | Literacy educators |
Are your students having difficulty in transferring their knowledge to exams and written work? | Do you want to support your EAL/D students in secondary science? | Do you want to support student literacy and language in secondary science? |
Do they have problems with the Student Research Project? | Do you want great language and literacy strategies for teaching through science? | Do you want to learn more about 7–10 science and talk like a science teacher? |
Do you want them to be more engaged and take more responsibility in their science learning? | Do you want team-teaching skills and ideas in working collaboratively with science teachers? | Do you want literacy teaching ideas that work in secondary science? |
Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education (SICLE) and Sydney School of Education and Social Work have joined forces to create a unique online learning opportunity for teachers to participate in NESA accredited professional development.
Completing any of the six 90-minute workshops in the Supporting Student’s Literacy Development in Science online program will contribute 90 minutes of NESA-registered PD, addressing the descriptors listed below from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW:
Webinar 6 – Integrating science, language and literacy – November 18 [postponed from October 21] – 6.3.2
to attend and we will send you a Zoom link.
Presenters will be practising teachers, as well as researchers and teacher educators from Sydney University, who were involved in a Department of Education-funded projects in 2019 that partnered with eight secondary-school teams of science, EAL/D and literacy teachers working with Year 8 classes to develop student engagement and improved outcomes in secondary science.