Presenter:
Darryn Kruse In the English classroom (Years 5-10) effective student exploration of text, of issues, and of language requires a range of thinking processes and levels of thinking. This program will explore a wide variety of classroom strategies that provide opportunity and support for student thinking in their study of English. Some of the strategies (the top five, three level guide, circuit brainstorm, creative construction, and soundscape) ask students to think more deeply and expansively about text; others (like diamond ranking, the concept game, graffiti carousel, affinity diagram, and priority 1-2-4) help students deal with issues work; others (including brute think, lotus diagram, text type matching & alphabetogories) support students to think about and improve their writing and their language use. These, and many more, techniques will be explored during this session. Many will be fun - all will be purposeful and ready for use in the classroom.
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  | Wonderful strategies, clear presented, fun and interactive elements. |
| A wonderful course, I cam away with loads of new things to try. |
| Fantastic information, great tried and tested ideas. Great pace. Good balance between theory and personal experiences. |
| Really great and practical day, it has left me with heaps of ideas to go into the classroom and start implementing tomorrow. |
| All very useful strategies, often don't need much preparation at all, which is what all english teachers want. Darren was great. For once I didn't leave a course early as I didn't want to go. |
| Practical, interestingly fun. |
| Well presented and practical. |
| Very practical. |
| All the dieas are able to be implemented immediately which is fantastic. There were some HSIE examples, nore english would be better. |
| Practical ideas that can be presented/used in class. |
| Interesting activities provided. It would have been worthwhile if all of the template/worksheets were provided with the package they receieve. |
| Fantastic ideas! I would have loved even more time to keep trying these strategies. Great fun for the classroom. |
| Absolutely wonderful ideas! Very inspiring. Thank you! |
| Fantastic presentation with engaging and useful activities which I can run in my own class room. |
| A myriad of ideas to use directly and immediately in the classroom. Fun! All activities can be used in the senior school also (since its advertised for juniors. |
