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Select from the full list of courses face-to-face and online further below, or explore tailored learning options for your school team to build a professional learning community.

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Please note that whilst all PETAA face to face Professional Learning has been suspended over the past few months, the gradual return to face-to-face learning will occur under strict COVID safe guidelines as explained in PETAA’s COVID Safe Policy (.pdf 177 kB) with advice for attendees and host venues. You can also find resources for schools and parents with students in self isolation or quarantine on our Online Teaching Support page.

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Online: Launching spelling through reading and writing
Online: Launching spelling through reading and writing
Presented by Robyn Wild. While most Kindergarten teachers don’t use formal spelling programs or include weekly Friday dictations into their literacy routines, the teaching of spelling is their core business. So, what are they doing? Join us while we see and hear how children are introduced to words, letters and letter patterns during shared reading and shared and interactive writing, and then use this information as they create their own... Details
When: March 29 – May 3, 2021
Where: Online
Online: Joint construction — informative
Online: Joint construction — informative
Presented by Joanne Rossbridge, this course is designed to develop knowledge and metalanguage to explore how to support students in the joint construction of informative texts. Choice of model texts will be considered by looking at examples from subject areas such as History, Science and Geography. Teachers will be provided with ways to read model texts in order to identify a focus on language choices across a range of informative texts. Links between modelling, reconstruction and... Details
When: April 11 – May 16, 2021
Where: Online
Online: Supporting EAL/D students in our classrooms 2
Online: Supporting EAL/D students in our classrooms 2
Presented by Dr Jennifer Hammond and Maya Cranitch. Supporting EAL/D students in our classrooms is a three part course designed to address the contributions and educational needs of diverse EAL/D students in Australian schools, including those who have recently arrived and who may be from refugee backgrounds. Drawing upon principles and practices of EAL/D pedagogy to support mainstream and EAL/D teachers in planning and implementing programs that meet the needs of EAL/D students in... Details
When: April 12 – May 10, 2021
Where: Online
Online: Intro to English language and sentence grammar
Online: Intro to English language and sentence grammar
An online course presented by Dr. Rod Campbell, demonstrating that teaching English grammar (or more correctly, teaching students the knowledge and skills for writing English) can be creative, engaging and effective.

When: May 3–31, 2021
Where: Online
Live Webinar: The power and potential of picture books
Live Webinar: The power and potential of picture books
Free Webinar for members only. Author Radhiah Chowdhury is currently a commissioning editor and audio producer for children and adults at Penguin Random House Australia and has edited books for children at Scholastic Australia, Allen & Unwin and Giramondo. She is passionate about stories that reflect all the magnificent, different facets and experiences of our community, and has been an advocate for representative publishing in her work as both an editor and an author. Her picture... Details
When: May 6, 2021
Where: Online
Online: Going Meta - Enabling rich talk about writing
Online: Going Meta - Enabling rich talk about writing
Presented and moderated by Professor Debra Myhill, and comprising 5 distinct modules, this comprehensive course looks at what is meant by metalinguistic understanding, how to plan writing lessons which foster understanding of language choices and how to generate metalinguistic talk in your classroom. It explores metalinguistic modelling of choices in writing and unpacks writing as a craft. Each module will involve reference to research and underlying understandings combined with a... Details
When: May 10 – June 4, 2021
Where: Online
Online: Teaching grammar with rich literature
Online: Teaching grammar with rich literature
Presented and moderated by Jennifer Asha. Using rich literature to teach writing, with quality texts as a springboard for explicit grammar instruction. What makes a quality text a good resource for teaching sentence level grammar?

When: May 10 – June 14, 2021
Where: Online
Live Webinar: Organising the English/literacy block
Live Webinar: Organising the English/literacy block
Free Webinar for members only. For beginning teachers. Join us for a webinar with senior literacy academic Dr Kaye Lowe (author of Writing the Future and For the Love of Reading; facilitator of popular PETAA online course Supporting Struggling Readers) as she shares top tips for beginning teachers - focusing on best practice ways to organise the English and literacy block. This webinar is designed for pre-service and early-career teachers, and will include time for you to ask... Details
When: May 11, 2021
Where: Online
Online: Supporting EAL/D students in our classrooms 3
Online: Supporting EAL/D students in our classrooms 3
Presented by Dr Jennifer Hammond and Maya Cranitch. Supporting EAL/D students in our classrooms is a three part course designed to address the contributions and educational needs of diverse EAL/D students in Australian schools, including those who have recently arrived and who may be from refugee backgrounds. Drawing upon principles and practices of EAL/D pedagogy to support mainstream and EAL/D teachers in planning and implementing programs that meet the needs of EAL/D students in... Details
When: May 17 – June 21, 2021
Where: Online
Online: Supporting Struggling Readers
Online: Supporting Struggling Readers
Presented and moderated by Dr Kaye Lowe, author of For The Love of Reading and Writing The Future. This workshop is a practical examination of the reading process and demonstrates strategies that support readers to comprehend texts and develop a love of reading. It provides evidence-based strategies that eliminate the stress and anxiety too often experienced by struggling... Details
When: May 24 – June 25, 2021
Where: Online
Online: A text based approach to teaching phonics
Online: A text based approach to teaching phonics
This practical workshop, presented by Dr. Leonie Arthur and Dr. Margery Hertzberg, will focus on the use of authentic texts to teach phonics in the early years of school.

When: May 24 – June 28, 2021
Where: Online
Building vocabulary
Building vocabulary
Presented by Annette Gray. A broad, rich and constantly growing vocabulary is a powerful component of students’ literacy and learning success. The correlation between vocabulary knowledge and literacy success is well-established, with vocabulary responsible for up to 80% of comprehension. Successful instruction is that which has as its primary goal the understanding of new concepts, not just new words (Nagy 1988), and is context and meaning-based within the fundamental purpose of... Details
When: May 26, 2021
Where: Mudgee, NSW
Live Webinar: Poetry for life
Live Webinar: Poetry for life
Reading poetry and prose with primary students. Free Webinar for members only. With Wendy Orr. Wendy is the author of Nim’s Island, Dragonfly Song, and many more books for children and young people. They have won awards in Australia and around the world and have been translated into twenty-eight languages. In her Bronze Age adventure novel Cuckoo’s Flight, Wendy uses verse and prose alike to build Clio’s world and tell her story. Join us in conversation with Wendy as we talk about... Details
When: May 26, 2021
Where: Online
Books & Bubbles
Books & Bubbles
A special event presented by Jennifer Asha. Come along to discover and explore quality children's literature while sipping on a glass of bubbles!

When: May 27, 2021
Where: Newtown
Exploring how texts work in science
Exploring how texts work in science
Presented by Bronwyn Custance and Tony Hole. What are the core text types reflected in the Australian Curriculum; Science, and how do we support our learners in reading and writing science texts to successfully construct and represent their learning?

When: May 28 – June 18, 2021
Where: Cowandilla, SA