Professional Learning
School-based professional learning
Joanne offers a range of options to support professional learning needs to develop students’ language and literacy across the curriculum in both primary and secondary schools. Options include:
- workshops or presentations
- series of workshops
- small group planning sessions
- planning followed by demonstration lessons and debrief sessions.
Duration and session lengths can be negotiated and include after school hours, staff development days and in school time. Detailed short and long terms plans can be designed with a combination of modes to support ongoing targeted plans across a year or several years.
Content can be negotiated and created specifically, to address a school’s particular needs and school plans. Please feel free to make contact to discuss possibilities and options.
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Other professional learning
Grammar, Language and Literacy
When: Thursday 4:30-6:00pm AEST 8, 15, 22, 29 May; 5 June 2025
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Interactive through Zoom
An introductory course suitable for educators and literacy support staff
This five session interactive Zoom course is presented by Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton. It aims to develop understandings of some of the grammatical concepts important to learning about language, explore the grammatical features of some quality children’s literature and investigate some of the ways young students can be supported in learning about language.
Grammar and Teaching
When: 4:30-6:30pm AEDT/AEST Tuesday 11, 18 & 25 March; 1 April; 6, 13, 20 & 27 May; 3, 10, 17 & 24 June 2025
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Interactive through Zoom
This 12 course is presented by both Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton online through Zoom. Participants explore those features of grammar necessary for students to master by the end of the middle years of schooling; develop understandings of the grammatical concepts outlined in syllabus documents and in NAPLAN; define a pedagogy which includes the teaching of grammar in meaningful contexts relating to the subject matter of the curriculum.
Grammar and Teaching Encore
When: 4:30-6:30pm AEDT Thursday 6, 13, 20, 27 March; 3 April 2025
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Interactive through Zoom
This online course is presented by both Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton. It is aimed at teachers who have already completed the 12 week Grammar and Teaching course. Knowledge about selecting and using a range of texts to support understanding about literacy and literature will be developed by building on participants’ understanding of a functional model of language and how it is applied in relevant curriculum and syllabus documents.
Tell me your story: Supporting EAL/D students from K-8
REGISTER THROUGH CPL
When: Friday 1, 15 & 29 November 2024
Location: Surry Hills, Sydney
Tell me your story: Supporting EAL/D students from K-8
REGISTER THROUGH CPL
When: Tuesday 29 October 2024
Location: Kingston, ACT
This one day course, through the Centre for Professional Learning, is presented by both Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton. It aims to develop understandings and strategies for participants who support EAL/D students in both small groups and mainstream classrooms.
