Looking forward to presenting this popular 4-part course, live via Zoom in August: Explicitly teaching the components of spelling | Tessa Daffern. Limited places available. Register now or DM for more info.

@TessaDaffern @burkeward Appreciate your guidance @TessaDaffern. You support our teachers to provide the best education we can offer our students here at @burkeward

Wonderful to connect with #teachers @burkeward @heathwild over the last few days for PL on teaching various aspects of #writing incl. sentences, spelling, vocabulary, planning, editing. Such a great team to work with, as always!

Explicitly Teaching Spelling: 4-part course with support materials. Limited places. Don't miss this opportunity.

REMINDER: Free Q&A Spell Health 🩺 Check Appointment for CoST Dashboard users is on today. This is an optional, drop-in coaching or forum-like session, exclusively open to all CoST Teacher Dashboard registered class teachers.

Last wk w/ 3 beautiful schools @Catholic Schools Broken Bay in collaborative PL: building teacher capacity for #explicit & #targeted #spelling #instruction. Many thanks to St Cecilia, St Martin & OLGC Catholic Primary Schools 4 inviting me to support the important work you do.

Looking forward to presenting this upcoming webinar on #teaching #writing, hosted by Adult Learning Australia:

Primary school teachers are welcome to join me for one of these upcoming workshops on DIFFERENTIATING & ASSESSING SPELLING : Limited places! One workshop date has now sold out. Register here: https://t.co/TLcaxEcRZs

An absolute pleasure presenting a full day workshop: 172 educators across 56 schools, Brisbane Catholic Ed. #Gabba is such an awesome venue, I must add! Huge thanks to @lucywalker & her team for inviting me to support teachers as they deepen their pedagogical content knowledge.

Thanks @PETAAConnect for the opportunity to present this #reading course in Sydney this week. #Teachers were absorbed in thoughtful conversations, learning experiences & hands-on activities. Many thanks to Hilltop Road Public School 4 hosting🙏

Disappointed to hear of such cases. I empathize, speaking from personal experience: my work has also been unethically used, yet when I’ve tried to diplomatically address the issues, I too have received denials, threats & passive aggressive reactions.

Thanks to #Bungendore Public School for hosting this PL yesterday, joined with #Gundaroo & #Sutton Public Schools. We focussed on building knowledge for responsive, targeted teaching; supporting students who find spelling hard but also extending high potential & gifted students.

DIFFERENTIATING & ASSESSING SPELLING PL Includes FREE curated professional reading materials. Back by popular demand!

Thanks to the #ACT Teacher Quality Institute #Canberra for hosting this accredited PL workshop: How to #explicitly #teach #spelling while targeting ALL learner needs & ensuring transfer to reading & writing. Also clarified errors in poor & hastily designed programs/curriculums.

It's been a super 3 days, supporting the dedicated #teachers @burkeward @heathwild, examining CoSTEY & CoST data, discussing ways to refine a targeted, systematic, explicit teaching approach, incl. how to integrate spelling instruction with reading, vocab & text composition.

Canberra Workshop: Effectively Teaching Spelling Monday 7 April #ACT TQI accredited for 5 hrs PL. Register here: https://t.co/Y06qZN2hKG

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A couple of original, early RECORDS (from 2014-2015):

I came across some of my materials, stemming from my PhD data. Here, I show my very early & personal scribbles of my qualitative analysis of just 1 student writing sample (of many) - apologies for the poor image quality, plus some early workshop materials I used at the time.

In 'record', when used as a verb, the schwa is in the 1st syllable (which is unstressed). While I'm on the topic of linguistic terms, I'd like to RECORD (verb) & set the RECORD (noun) straight 4 those who may not know the origins of some key terms & acronyms I've used for 10+ yrs