The Writing Teacher Workshop | Years 4-8
Dr Helen Walls with Freedom Literacy
Freedom Literacy is thrilled to be hosting Dr Helen Walls, The Writing Teacher, for two one-day workshops.
This high-quality professional learning will support all teachers’ writing instruction. It is especially timely for teachers who have shifted towards a Structured Literacy approach and are now bolstering their writing practice.
Cost includes the resources noted below, morning tea and lunch.
About the event
Teaching of Writing: The ‘what’ and ‘how’ of effective instruction.
Dr Helen Walls will unpack ‘the science of writing’ and its implications for teaching practice. She will summarise empirical research into writing development, and share a set of methods to increase student motivation and accelerate progress. We want you to leave feeling confident to deliver a fun and effective programme – the very next day.
All attendees will receive a folder of key resources, including guides for teaching handwriting and sentence structure, Helen’s spelling programme, and a copy of her scope and sequence of compositional goals.
This will be a fun and interactive day. You are invited to bring writing samples from the students you work with so that we can tailor our discussion to the particular needs of your classes.
We hope to see you there.
Course content
- The importance of fluent handwriting, and ways to make this age appropriate for older students.
- Teaching spelling. We will cover teacher content knowledge, as well as assessment and instructional routines.
- Teaching sentence structures. We will cover teacher content knowledge as well as teaching methods.
- Teaching the writing processes – planning, re-reading, revising and evaluating.
- Formative assessment and the selection of powerful learning goals.
- Key elements of the writing lesson, including modelling, supported writing, and feedback.
- Contexts that work to inspire your students.
About Helen
Dr Helen Walls is a teacher, professional learning facilitator, and educational researcher, with twenty year’s experience working in schools. For her doctoral thesis, Helen conducted two empirical studies to investigate best practice methods for the teaching of writing. She has spoken at national conferences and has published with The Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties and The Education Hub. Helen is an associate of Cognition Education and Tātai Angitu of Massey University.
Hi,
I am a SPELD teacher as well as working at Lytton High with students who have literacy needs. SPELD will pay for my fees. I would love to be able to attend.
Can you please email me to let me know that I have a place on the course.
Thank you,
Kay