Costs

TATE Individual members – $66.00

Hobart TATE Institutional members – $88.00 TATE Student members – $33.00 Portraits of Practice IV Non-TATE Members – $140.00*

Teaching Texts with Sensitivity *Not a member? Join Now: www.aate.org.au/membership/

Saturday September 14, Ogilvie High School, New Town

9.30- arrival and registration

9.50- welcome and introduction

Alex Wharton 10.00- session 1

Alex Wharton (@whartonag) is Head of Middle School at Carinya Christian School, (north-west NSW). He has been an English Teacher and Head Teacher for a decade and serves the ETA NSW community as a presenter, writer, and Director. Alex presents and writes extensively in the areas of English Teaching, including resources for National Literacy and Numeracy Week. He is co-editing an AATE Publication on Dystopian Literature and is the 2019 Reading Teaching Fellow.

Daring Dystopias: a vision of the future?

This workshop will explore ways in which teachers can provide safe and supportive environments through regular classroom practice. Literature and texts that present our students with confronting and mature themes should not necessarily be removed from our bookrooms, but rather need to be dealt with sensitively, recognising the myriad of contexts and nuances that can be used to enrich the literary lives of our students.

10.50- morning tea

Dr Libby Robinson 11.10- session 2

Dr Robinson holds a PhD, with her thesis, Pedagogy of Being Present: An Inquiry into the Unconditional Communion of Listening. She has been a teacher in for 26 years. Raised and educated in Tasmania, Dr Robinson is currently principal of Kingston High School and wishes she had more time for teaching.

Narrative is Voice - Voice is Emancipation

English teachers recognise the power of narrative as a tool for bringing back into voice those that have been oppressed into silence. Through our teaching we not only have the capacity to share with our students literature that resonates with the stories of others, we are able to help students find their own voices and stories.

Claire Gluskie 12.00- session 3

Claire is currently an English teacher and the Instructional Literacy Coach at Clarence High School. Claire has taught in a range of high school classrooms in South Africa, London and Australia since 2000. She has a passion for inquiry-based pedagogy and the rich opportunities to enable this through the use of Literature Circles.

An introduction to Literature Circles using Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia

Described as a ‘game changer’ by experienced teachers I have worked with, this workshop will explore the purpose of Literature Circles and an overview of how they promote and develop students’ metacognitive strategies. In this session I will share the complete modelled unit of work with you and take you through the concept of Literature Circles and how you can implement this in your classroom.

12.50- lunch

Emma Jenkins 1.20- session 4

Emma Jenkins is the current president of TATE and delegate to AATE National Council. Emma has written units for The Garret Podcast Series, Reading Australia and is currently co- authoring a publication about teaching microfiction. Emma’s other classroom passion is History and she thoroughly enjoys teaching Australian history and Europe at war.

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Teaching Holocaust trauma texts without traumatising

With texts such as Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Night being popular class text list additions and Holocaust literature widely available for students to read, Holocaust texts provide a great starting point for encouraging students to reflect on human action and inaction, as well as the choices people were confronted with at the time. In this workshop, Emma will share her takeaways from her time studying at Yad Vashem regarding appropriate and sensitive ways to expose students to Holocaust texts including the ‘safely in, safely out’ model used and promoted by Holocaust educators for the safe, respectful, humanising and anchoring approach to teaching the Holocaust. 2.10- Q&A session and close