Professional Learning Courses
Steering Standard English
This course is a practical, teacher-focused course designed to build confidence and clarity in planning and delivering the NSW Stage 6 Standard English course. The course unpacks how to purposefully approach each HSC focus area—Texts and Human Experiences, Language, Identity and Culture, and Close Study of Literature—while showing how to structure a coherent teaching and learning program that is tightly aligned to syllabus outcomes and content.
Participants will explore how to use formative assessment strategically to support student growth, with a particular emphasis on developing writing skills across the course, including The Craft of Writing. With an emphasis on clear sequencing, explicit instruction, and manageable assessment practices, this course supports teachers to steer students toward confident reading, thinking, and writing in Standard English.
Year 12 Extension 1: Literary Worlds
This course provides teachers with strategies for programming and teaching Year 12 Extension 1: Literary Worlds. Teachers will learn how to best approach teaching the focus area in the time available and how to leverage aspects of the Year 11 Extension 1 English and Year 12 Advanced English courses.
From here, teachers will learn about the value of students developing a portfolio of writing as a means of demonstrating a strong conceptual understanding of Literary Worlds, before moving on to consider ways of modelling and scaffolding responses to examination questions. The course concludes with a focus on crafting effective feedback.
Year 11 Extension 1: Texts, Culture and Value
This professional learning course provides teachers with a clear and practical overview of the Texts, Culture and Value focus area. The course supports confident syllabus interpretation, effective text selection and pairing, and strategies for teaching critical frameworks, independent research, and sophisticated argument. Practical classroom approaches, exemplar activities, and assessment-focused guidance will equip teachers to support students in producing nuanced, conceptually driven responses that meet the intellectual demands of Extension 1.
Raising the Rigour: The Power of Protocols in the 7-10 English Classroom
This professional learning course supports Years 7–10 English teachers in developing a confident and purposeful approach to high-impact classroom practice. Participants will explore a range of practical teaching strategies, structured protocols, and Making Thinking Visible routines designed to deepen student engagement and extend learning. The course focuses on building students’ capacity to think independently, read texts critically, craft academic arguments, collaborate effectively, give and receive meaningful feedback, and reflect on their own learning. Through explicit modelling and classroom-ready applications, teachers will be equipped with adaptable strategies that support sustained literacy growth across diverse classroom contexts.
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