Tactical Teaching
Teacher Resource BooksTactical Teaching is a series of three non-sequential, intensive, highly practical workshops of 2 hours duration, in Speaking and Listening, Thinking or Reading. The workshops and associated course books are intended to help learning area teachers in middle and high school settings support the literacy demands of their curriculum area. Tactical Teaching provides practical ideas to help students construct their understandings through the use of effective literacy strategies. The following Tactical Teaching teacher resource books are available. Reading: How to Help Students Use Reading Processes How to Make Reading Strategies Visible How to Build Text Form Knowledge Speaking and Listening: Getting More Bang For Your Blah -Promoting Effective Listening Harnessing Hot Air - Making Student Talk Work Notetaking and Notemaking - The Power Platform of Speaking and Listening Thinking: Why is it So? Stimulating Critical Thinking Looking Outside the Box: Encouraging Creative Thinking Mirror To the Mind: Developing Metacognition
 | Tactical Teaching: Reading How to Help Students Use Reading Processes This course book and accompanying workshop explores teaching procedures and activities that support students in making sense of what they read as they work through reading processes such as: activating background knowledge, clarifying vocabulary or monitoring understanding. Professional Development   
|  | Tactical Teaching: Reading How to Make Reading Strategies Visible Successful readers intuitively draw upon a range of strategies when confronted by challenging texts. These include strategies such as: adjusting reading rate, re-reading, connecting and self questioning. Research highlights that readers benefit greatly from explicit teaching of reading strategies - and this course book and workshop provides teachers with a range of activities to make reading strategies visible for students. Professional Development
|  | Tactical Teaching: Reading How to Build Text Form Knowledge Students' knowledge and use of purpose, organisation, language features and text structure helps them to comprehend text. In this workshop particiapnts examine practical activities from the course book that will help students understand these different patterns within texts and thus assist comprehension. Professional Development
|  | Tactical Teaching: Speaking and Listening Getting More Bang for Your Blah-Promoting Effective ListeningThis course book will help teachers reflect on the strategies effective listeners use, and expand their repertoire of tactical teaching and learning activities that support students as they practise these strategies. Readers will encounter over a dozen innovative ways of exploring learning area subject matter. » Professional Development |  | Tactical Teaching: Speaking and Listening Harnessing Hot Air-Making Student Talk WorkThis course book focuses upon the strategies we use when we speak effectively. It helps teachers expand their repertoire of tactical teaching and learning activities to include activities that encourage students to use talk as a powerful tool of both thought and expression. » Professional Development |  | Tactical Teaching: Speaking and Listening Notetaking and Notemaking-The Power Platform of Speaking and ListeningThis course book highlights the value of notetaking and notemaking for speaking and listening in a wide variety of settings. It unravels the mystery of why most students struggle with maximising notetaking and notemaking, providing teachers and students with strategic ways of organising and recording their thoughts. » Professional Development |  | Tactical Teaching: Thinking Why Is It So? Stimulating Critical ThinkingThe ability to evaluate information and opinions in a systematic, purposeful, efficent manner requires the skill of critical thinking. This course book explores what it means to think critically: what processes are applied and what strategies can be employed to enable students to think critically. A range of powerful teaching activities that can be adapted for use across all areas is included. » Professional Development |  | Tactical Teaching: Thinking Looking Outside the Box: Encouraging Creative ThinkingCreative thinkers are able to view and understand the world in new and different ways. In this coure book a series of practical activities has been developed to help teachers explore ways of teaching students to think creatively to achieve improved learning outcomes. These activities can be adapted and used across all learning areas. » Professional Development |  | Tactical Teaching: Thinking Mirror to the Mind: Developing MetacognitionHave you ever thought about how you think and learn? Teaching students about the metacognitive process enables them to develop strategies to understand and enhance their own learning skills. This course book offers a range of activities that teachers can use with students in identifying their thinking processes and how to apply them effectively to improve elarning outcomes. » Professional Development |
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 | "It was great to be involved in professional development that was aimed at and focused on the Secondary teacher in the secondary context. I'm excited" | |
Frances Zabaraukas, St John Fisher College, Queensland, Australia-2006 |
