The course is based on a three-part video presentation by educator, teacher and global citizenship advocate Rod Yule with an intensive focus on approaches to explicit teaching of persuasion texts, multimodal literacy, and reading comprehension strategies and references units and resources on the Global Words website. Learning is extended by the opportunity to interact with the course moderator Jennifer Asha and with colleagues on a dedicated wikispace, to share and develop your own ideas for classroom activities.

Completing this course will contribute 5 hours of  online learning addressing 2.2.2, 2.4.2, 3.2.2 of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient accreditation.