Presenter: Steven Kolber

Course Length: 1 hour(s)

Description:
Every curriculum decision we make, including the texts we use in our classroom, makes a difference to student learning. When we make conscious choices about the texts we use, and how we teach with those texts, we make a statement about what is important to us as a teacher. In this session the presenter, an award winning teacher who has published widely on the role of schools in promoting democracy, will outline how they make choices about the texts they use in the classroom. Texts can include the books we use in English classrooms, the textbooks across any subject, the visual and audio material we select, and the short extracts from media sources and other printed material. This session is about how you make a difference in your curriculum choices.

Standards addressed:

• 2.2.2 Content selection and organisation
• 2.5.2 Literacy and numeracy strategies