The Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy

Part 1: Effective Literacy Teaching In High Schools

Episode Summary

Addressing the varied literacy levels in high school is a big challenge for teachers. Literacy leader Misty Adoniou joins us to discuss.

Episode Notes

Addressing the varied literacy levels in high school is a big challenge for teachers, and helping students with low literacy can be difficult. 

Joining us to discuss this is literacy expert Misty Adoniou, Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Canberra and Principal Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, and a leader in the literacy research and practice field.

The conversation covers:

• Misty’s background and current work in high schools, greatly enjoying helping teachers apply research directly in their classroom, and specifically about the teaching of Writing, Spelling, Grammar and English as an Additional Language.
• How to shift teachers’ learning and students’ outcomes, through apprenticing teachers into teaching literacy strategies in their specific discipline: Science, Mathematics, History etc
• How teaching vocabulary in a discipline is a very useful starting point. Misty explains that 80% of words students come across in high school are multi-morphemic words that they haven’t encountered before
• How the high school timetable, with students encountering 5-6 disciplines in one day, can be looked at in exciting and positive ways, and explained as such to students
• The two major concerns of high school teachers: students lacking skills in writing, and little motivation to write, and how this can be unpacked and addressed
• How teachers can teach writing skills more effectively – like a scientist, a mathematician, historian etc., and the example of a lab report in Science.
• How the teaching of skills and strategies can occur in each lesson for only about 10 minutes, based on excellent models of writing in that discipline. And how passion for your discipline is key to teaching it.

And many more practical tips and insights!

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The Teacher’s Tool Kit For Literacy is the free podcast for motivated teachers and school leaders who want the latest tips, tricks and tools to inspire their students and school community in literacy learning. 

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Episode Transcription

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