Reflecting on who I am and where I want to be…
Fiction is a powerful tool to enhance learning. Embedding it into lessons supports the acquisition of curriculum content and outcomes, by presenting information in engaging and readily accessible ways, but also enhances it, by further expanding student understanding of key content at the same time as embedding valuable cross-curricular concepts. Using literature as a pathway…
An integral part of the role of TL is engaging students, teachers and the broader school community to ensure fictional texts are valued and embedded into teaching and learning programs. TL’s are in a unique position to support learning within a school as they work with teachers across all learning areas, and therefore should engage…
It is hard for me to consider how to foster a love of reading in young people who might not already do so, simply because it has always come so naturally to me! I’m coming to this degree from a secondary English teaching background, but driven primarily for my deep passion for literature. To appropriate…