What role does literacy play in shaping successful classrooms?
In this insightful short course, Professor Larissa McLean Davies explores the crucial roles of talking, reading and writing in education. She explores how improved language and literacy practices can enhance learning for all students.
Professor McLean Davies is a leading voice in education, known for her expertise in literacy, equity and teacher development. Currently she serves as Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, where she focuses on innovative approaches to language and learning.
In this session you’ll learn about:
- the connection between student agency, wellbeing and literacy
- how integrating students’ home languages and cultural stories can enrich learning
- practical ways leaders can model literate practices and build a dialogic culture.
This course offers South Australian educators a moment to pause, reflect and engage in meaningful dialogue. Through guided questions for group discussions and prompts to reflect, you’ll be supported in taking purposeful steps within your own unique context.
Discover the shared responsibility of teachers, leaders, and principals in creating dialogic classrooms. Gain insights into how literacy extends beyond English and forms an integral part of every subject.
South Australian Department for Education employees can access this course through plink here:
Let’s talk: literacy in leadership
Time commitment: 20 - 30 minutes
This includes time for all professional readings, course content, and videos.
Watch the trailer.
Transcript
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Wellbeing is absolutely central to literacy and to learning. A young child's language, a student's language is central to the way in which they are making meaning, they are feeling comfortable and they are feeling connected. So what I guess I really want to emphasise here is that literacy isn't just in the way that we think about being able to produce certain kinds of texts or even speak certain kinds of texts. It's a way in which students can have voice, it's a way in which students can have agency and the ways we think about literacy means that we are going to be thinking particularly about equity as well.
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