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    TATE Workshop

    English and the Essential Learnings


    Statewide workshops August 2005 4.30 5.45 pm

    English in Australia
    key

    learning area domain field subject discipline

    Changing English?
    English

    is always subject to the laws of recontextualisation it takes on different forms in different contexts. No one can claim to have the one true doctrine of English.
    Nick Peim - National Association Teaching English, 2003

    Changing English?
    There

    are now many versions of English. English - an umbrella term for the many Englishes?

    Versions of English?
    literature/literary communication language

    study

    literacy
    cultural

    studies/media studies l(IT)erary l(IT)eracy

    English in Tasmania
    language

    skills personal growth cultural heritage functional/genre critical literacies critical multiliteracies?

    English
    English

    constantly leads outside itself into other fields of study.

    English

    is about nothing in particular but also, therefore, about everything.

    English
    Despite

    some uncertainties around subject English, there are common practices and familiar content in our English classrooms.

    Senior Secondary English


    English

    Studies English Communications English Writing English Applied English 2-4

    English Communications
    the

    power of language in society exploring how communications work in the modern world, particularly in Australia an inquiry approach into relevant issues and contemporary texts producing original and authentic texts

    English Studies
    the

    study of texts that emphasise the use of language to create and interpret experience imaginatively how literary texts - both print and film - represent experience texts and their contexts reflection on the nature of text, self and society

    English Writing
    exploration

    of ideas and issues through writing producing a significant body of original work crafting writing through workshop processes and investigating others writing personal reading and viewing

    English
    English

    provides us with the capacity for making meaning and reflecting on texts, language, people and the world.
    Learning, Teaching and Assessment Guide, 2005

    English
    English

    is about the textual rendering of the human experience.


    Wendy Morgan - AATE Conference, 2005

    English
    English

    is about how we represent ourselves in our world and how we make sense of representations for us in our world.
    Gunther Kress, 2005

    Essential English
    What

    does English essentially concern itself with? What does it do that no other area of the curriculum does?
    Wayne Sawyer University of Western Sydney, 2005

    Essential English
    Essential English is about:
    the

    study of language reflection on language the critique of language the creation of language

    Essential English
    In texts of the:
    imagination personal

    aesthetic

    Essential English
    In: print electronic oral and visual forms
    Wayne Sawyer University of Western Sydney, 2005

    Essential English
    The central concern with language for its own sake. The equal valuing if the critical and aesthetic domains of language. The valuing of imaginative and personal uses of language.

    Wayne Sawyer University of Western Sydney, 2005

    The Essential Learnings


    The ELs Framework aligns: Curriculum i.e. what we teach. Pedagogy i.e. how we teach. Assessment i.e. how we provide feedback to students and make judgements about learning. Reporting i.e. how we recognise and communicate judgements about learning to others.

    The Essential Learnings


    five

    essentials central to contemporary life and work a seamless curriculum guaranteed for all students K-10 concept-based, inquiry-driven world-related clear outcomes and standards

    The Essential Learnings


    Interrelates

    discipline knowledge, conceptual understanding, processes and skills to ensure connectedness and coherence in learning.
    English constantly leads outside itself into other fields of study.

    The Essential Learnings


    Provides

    a lens through which to identify and select critical content, key concepts, processes and skills from the fields of learning such as English.

    The Essential Learnings


    Discipline

    and subject knowledge will be strengthened through the Essential Learnings curriculum.
    ELs Parent & Community Pamphlet, 2005

    Essential English learning


    We

    have to get better at the disciplinary to make the transdisciplinary work.

    Professor Peter Freebody - TATE State Conference, 2005

    Shifts in approach
    Moving

    our thinking from teaching a subject called English towards the notion of English learning within an Essential Learnings curriculum.

    Shifts in approach
    From

    teaching a subject called English towards learning about, with and through the critical content, key concepts, processes and skills of the field of English

    Shifts in approach
    From

    teaching the book Looking for Alibrandi to inquiring into how the book represents family, loss, relationships and identity.

    Mending Wall
    Something there is that doesnt love a wall That sends the frozen ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. Good fences make good neighbours
    Robert Frost

    Transdisciplinary English?
    Does

    English connect to other fields of study? Do teachers of English spend time in the domains of history, philosophy, social sciences, geography, aesthetics?

    Animal Farm

    Transdisciplinary design
    Transdisciplinary

    learning connects two or more disciplines through a conceptual lens or focus to explore complex, life problems or issues.

    Transdisciplinary design
    In

    transdisciplinary learning the interactive synergy of the disciplines enables students to develop greater understanding of the problem or issue.

    Transdisciplinary design
    In

    transdisciplinary learning, disciplines maintain their integrity, informing what students need to know, (factual knowledge) understand (conceptual understanding) and be able to do (skills and processes).

    Key key elements


    Being

    literate Inquiry Being arts literate Reflective thinking

    More key key elements


    Valuing

    diversity. Building and maintaining identity and relationships. Being information literate. Being ethical. Understanding the past and creating preferred futures.

    Being literate
    working

    with the codes in which texts are constructed participating in making meaning of texts using texts critically analysing and transforming texts

    Key concepts
    Core concepts within Being literate:

    communication text language meaning

    More concepts
    Symbol, word, image, message, code, register, Standard Australian English, language mode, multimodal text, text form, text type, genre, text structure, language feature, audience, purpose, context, strategy, representation, deconstruction, construction, point of view, positioning, ideology, aesthetic appreciation, media, nonverbal communication, print text, spoken text, visual text, multimedia text, intertextuality

    The process of inquiry


    asking

    good questions defining problems gathering information thinking about possibilities making decisions justifying conclusions

    Literary inquiry involves


    enjoying

    texts exploring texts analysing texts critiquing texts appreciating texts valuing texts

    Literary inquiry
    Students ask questions about:
    how

    the book is made the narrative form

    Literary inquiry
    Students ask questions about:
    the

    structure of the text the ways in which the text relates to life

    Literary inquiry
    Students ask questions about:
    how

    does the implied author operates how might we read the text

    Literary inquiry
    Students ask questions about:
    the

    literary techniques and devices operating in the text ways in which texts relate to each other

    Designing a task
    Working

    in pairs, read the scenario and explore the questions that follow. Be prepared to share your responses.

    A learning sequence
    Whats

    new and/or different in the learning sequence? Whats simply good English teaching practice?

    Ways forward
    literary

    inquiry into texts and language for critical, personal, social and aesthetic purposes literary inquiry and reflective thinking around significant ideas and issues represented in different texts investigating texts, their contexts and relationships

    Ways forward
    applying

    English learning to communicate in public, liferelated ways extended negotiated learning ongoing elements language processes, strategies, skills, conventions

    Contact details
    Steven Figg PEO English/Curriculum Support Team School Education Division
    [email protected]

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