Learning Areas
Teaching Standards
General Description
Visualising and Verbalising is an essential aspect of understanding and comprehending the world. Many students struggle with these skills and face many challenges when reading, comprehending, following instructions and understanding the intentions of others. This course will provide teachers with skills to work closely with students to develop these skills. We will work on words, sentences, paragraphs, main idea comprehension and inferencing that will equip teachers with classroom strategies to help their struggling readers. A range of fiction, non-fiction and visual texts will be used to model classroom practice. Teachers will become aware of the language to use when assisting such students with visualising words, sentences and paragraphs. We will take the opportunity to develop classroom lesson plans adaptable for any classroom.
Audience
Classroom teachers, remedial support teachers
Available Delivery Formats
This course contributes to 5.0 professional development hours.
Occurrences
There are no occurrences of Face to Face in Australia (NSW) at this time.
Sessions
Working with words
1 hour
An opening explanation of the research behind visualising and verbalising. Working with the word and detailed description.
Working with sentences
1 hour and 30 minutes
Visualising and verbalising at the sentence level. Dividing sentences and developing student awareness of the visual elements of sentences.
Working with paragraphs and concepts
1 hour and 30 minutes
Visualising and verbalising at the paragraph level. Working on whole paragraph comprehension. Visualising words, sentences and collections of sentences in quick succession to make meaning of the world.
Developing classroom resources
1 hour
Teacher tools. Practising with texts and creating lesson plans adaptable for classroom use. This includes working with fiction and non-fiction.
What To Bring
Pen, paper
User Rating
4.8Latest Reviews
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24/09/2013
Great strategies. Easy to use.
24/09/2013
I can use Everything I learnt today =) I found it very practical & informative.
24/09/2013
Great grounding for vocab ideas.
24/09/2013
Very interesting and helpful.
24/09/2013
May not be very useful to the students I teach but it provided training to enhance my report. Writing skill which is essential in doing comprehensive, accurate reports.
24/09/2013
Very calm and easy to follow!
by Mary Verykios on
19/09/2012
Really enjoyed this course / day because of the hands on activities. The many ideas I can actually work with depending on the students I teach, how and higher level teachers
19/09/2012
Very hands on which helps to consolidate knowledge, was not rushed and easy to follow pace
19/09/2012
Very hands on. Lots of resources, clear and well presented
19/09/2012
Brilliant, practical, useful, informative and well presented
by Natalie Smith on
19/09/2012
Joanne very knowledgeable, great resources and practical strategies. Great small group and hands on activities
by Tim Wyatt on
19/09/2012
Well presented with plenty of activities to buck up the oral info. This helped to ‘visualise’ the implementation of course in class
About the team
Joanne Manning
Creator
Joanne Manning is an experienced educator working in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning and English for over 20 years. Passionate about motivating students to develop a love for the English literature and language, Joanne has sought to integrate a number of research-based pedagogical methods into classroom practice. The integration of Strategies-based practices has informed her teaching of reading and creative writing. Joanne has pursued further studies in English teaching through Columbia University Teachers' College, studying a number of models of thinking. Joanne has presented on a range of topics regarding English, Differentiation, Learning Enhancement, Creative Writing and Teaching and Learning areas across all sectors of education. She holds a PhD in English literature.