Webinars

Live cast and recorded

Stay in the loop with PETAA webinars for members. Our growing series explores tips and topics relevant to your day-to-day work: the practical ins and outs of teaching English, language and literacies in the classroom and the inspirational moments and aspects of teaching. We aim to provide an exciting range of presenters and discussion areas — to deliver to you wherever you are.

Each webinar will run from 45–60 minutes, and the live cast will take place over lunchtime, or after school times where you can participate in a Q&A with the guest speaker(s).

Please note: PETAA webinars are not accredited professional learning.

If you can’t make the live session, recordings will be accessible for members below.

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Forthcoming

Sharing stories for healing — With Boori Monty Pryor

Live cast Thursday 24 June 2021 3:30–4:15 pm AEST

Before we enter National NAIDOC Week 2021, on 4–11 July 2021 with the theme, Heal Country, join us in conversation with legendary storyteller and inaugural Australian children's laureate (2012–2013) Boori Monty Pryor. Boori's new book Story Doctors, illustrated by Rita Sinclair, is ‘a book for everybody’ that travels from the first footsteps on this land through 80,000 years of strength, sickness and possibility. Boori will talk about the creation of Story Doctors, his experience workshopping the book with early learning students in classrooms across Australia, and how we can share quality children’s literature with students as an act of healing.

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Educational Equality through Scaffolding — With Carmel Leahy

Live cast Tuesday 13 July 2021 3:30–4:15 pm AEST

Explore effective ways to scaffold the literacy of students so they can fully participate in the Australian Curriculum with Carmel Leahy through her insightful case study. In 2017, a high school class at Yiyili Aboriginal Community School prepared for a trip to Canberra using the classic text Animal Farm by George Orwell.

The literacy levels of the students ranged from non-readers to almost mainstream levels of attainment. Learn about the scaffolded literacy program Carmel used to ensure the work was sufficiently differentiated for all students to participate fully and learn the literacy skill set they needed to explore the field of mainstream government and politics.

Above: At the ASFLA Conference 2016, from left to right: Robyn Cox (PETAA President at the time), Carmel Leahy and Sally Humphrey (Conference Convenor and PETAA author). Carmel Leahy was in that year awarded the inaugural Sue Bremner Scholarship — learn more and read her submission Language as Social Power.

Note this webinar is free for members and available to non-members for $50 (+GST) — follow the link below to register.

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Bringing history to life in children’s literature — With Anna Ciddor

Live cast Wednesday 21 July 2021 3:30–4:15 pm AEST

In Anna Ciddor’s newest book for children aged 8–13, The Boy who Stepped Through Time, her protagonist Perry visits a crumbling ruin while on holiday in France and is transported back 1700 years to the Roman Empire! Join us in conversation with Anna, who loves finding out the tiniest details of the past to flesh out her stores, as we discuss the time-slip adventure narratives, her writing and research process, and how you can support your students in making the past feel alive again.

As a rich and related resource, explore the English for the Australian Curriculum unit of work for Upper Primary Imagining Ancient Rome.

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