From little things big things grow: enhancing literacy learning for secondary students in rural and regional Australia

Title
From little things big things grow: enhancing literacy learning for secondary students in rural and regional Australia
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Clary, Deidre
Feez, Susan
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0977-2640
Email: sfeez@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sfeez
Garvey, Amanda
Partridge, Rebecca
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:17718
Abstract
Overall, the educational achievement of rural and regional students is lower than that of students elsewhere. To address uneven student achievement, a regional NSW high school, in collaboration with the local university, adopted a whole school approach to literacy teaching and learning. The literacy pedagogy adopted by the school has been applied to meet the specific literacy demands of each learning area. How teachers implementing the pedagogy have been supported by a school-university partnership is documented in this paper. A key outcome of the professional learning is that teachers in years 7 and 8 are expected to develop a language shared with colleagues and students for talking about the literacy demands of the learning areas so literacy knowledge and skills gained in one learning area can be applied in other learning areas.
Link
Citation
Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 25(1), p. 26-37
ISSN
1839-7387
Start page
26
End page
37

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