GHTANT and ETANT continue their tradition of collaboration on professional learning for teachers of English and the humanities. 

FREE FOR GHTANT OR ETANT MEMBERS

MEMBER'S GUEST - a member can bring one colleague for free. This ticket must be ordered simultaneously with the member ticket. 

$30.00 FOR NON-MEMBERS (Why not consider joining? GHTANT can be joined on this website by clicking the GHTANT logo at the top and navigating to memberships, with ETANT memberships available here.

FREE HALF-DAY FOR CLASSROOM DRONE ESSENTIALS WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

A more readable program should have been emailed to you by your association, but information on the sessions is below, with a schedule for the day following.

IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THE SIMULTANEOUS "SHE MAPS CLASSROOM DRONE ESSENTIAL" WORKSHOPS you are able to choose two sessions in the morning or afternoon if you wish to combine that event with this one. 

You will choose your sessions at registration. 

Session information

SESSION ONE

Option 1

Title:                   Approaches to Online Learning

Presenter:         Bruce Cameron

Location:            E17

Description:       COVID19 forced teachers into considering teaching by distance. What many of us discovered is that some principles of distance education can assist with student engagement and practice even in the face-to-face environment. Working with Stage 2 English at both Darwin High School and NTSDE allowed me to use many of my video lessons as a supplement for absent or disengaged classroom learners. Creating your own video content for your class is easy to do with just a few tools and a little courage. Let me show you how.

Option 2

Title:                   Meet the author             

Presenter:         Sean Guy

Location:            E16

Description:      Sean Guy is an Australian author and screenwriter. He has several novels published across a series of genres, and is also known for his work on short sketch films. Alongside the local amateur production company “Big Dog Salad” Sean has written and produced over a dozen comedic shorts, including one where two salesmen discuss the validity of a new type of calendar, where weekends are sold separately. He is also currently working on a feature film script about the Bombing of Darwin, for local filmmakers SD Productions.

Option 3

Title:                   A teaching toolbox for humanising confronting and controversial topics     

Presenter:         Amanda Tully and Raine Caldwell

Location:            E23

Description: The English and Humanities classrooms are places where students engage with confronting and controversial topics. Join Amanda and Raine to look at how to create a safe and supportive environment to promote student learning.

SESSION TWO

Option 1

Title:                   Just telling stories …    

Presenter:         Barry Jonsberg

Location:            E11

Description: All about stories: take away a video for classroom use on story elements like conflict, description, abstract versus concrete words, show, don’t tell.

But really Barry Jonsberg just wants to tell you stories about stories …

Option 2

Title:                   Competitions and the Curriculum

Presenter:         Nelly Labiche and Charleen Conroy

Location:            E23

Description: This workshop will bust the myth that competitions are additional work. There are lots of ways that both English and Humanities teachers across the primary to senior years can incorporate competitions in their practice to benefit both themselves and students

No option 3

 

SESSION THREE

Option 1

Title:                   Teaching the Holocaust through text: Once by Morris Gleitzam           

Presenter:         Steve Hawkins

Location:            E17

Description: Novel studies don’t always need to be about structures and features. Teachers can choose texts with challenging but important themes to help students better understand major global issues and events. In this session, teachers will explore how ‘Once’ by Morris Gleitzman is used to help middle school aged students to learn about the events of the Holocaust. The focus of the session will be adaptable to other texts on big themes that teachers may want to use.

Option 2

Title:                   Who are our heroes?

Presenter:         Cody Clifford, Nicole Everett, John Oakman and Raine Caldwell

Location:            E16

Description: Who are our heroes? What makes them heroic? Join Cody and Raine to look at the archetypes of the hero and the hero’s journey. Nicole will look at how she uses heroes to introduce students to critical perspectives. Finally, John will look a modern day hero. 

Option 3

Title:                   Making it Stick – Retention and Retrieval Techniques

Presenter:         Anna Hind

Location:            E23

Description:       Students forget what we teach them. One strategy which aims to reduce this 'forgetting' is retrieval practice: a set of strategies and classroom activities designed to encourage knowledge retention in our students. This workshop explains the theory and practical application of retrieval practice as it can be applied to any subject at any age level. Teachers will be provided with a range of resources and examples, specific to English and Humanities, for use in their own classrooms.

 

SESSION FOUR

Title:                   Pixar English - using short films to explore text structures and features

Presenter:         Steve Hawkins

Location:            E17

Description: If your students are anything like mine, they have the attention span of gnats. I've found using Pixar short films a fantastic way of introducing exploring a range of language and structure features, such as narrative arcs, the features of short stories and film techniques. This workshop will share some of these ideas, suitable for middle years or lower ability senior years students.

 

Title:                   Exploring visual texts – The Rabbits

Presenter:         Rachel Fegan

Location:            E16

Description: Rachel will use The Rabbits to present a series of interactive activities designed to engage students with visual texts.

 

Title:                   Civics and Citizenship 

Presenter:         Karen Parker

Location:            E23

Description: In this session, Karen Parker from the NT Electoral Commission will discuss strategies and activities that can be used in middle school and senior school classes to improve student knowledge of the systems and structures of our political systems.