Come Launch the Tasmanian Branch of TFE
Hear from Education Lecturer Dr Damon Thomas on the topic: How revolutionary is The Writing Revolution?
Connect with fellow Tassie Educators committed to building literacy for social equity.
Calling all TAS TFE Members …
Dr Damon Thomas
Damon Thomas is a senior lecturer in English education at the University of Tasmania. His research interests include writing development, pedagogy, and assessment.
Come along to this webinar discussion about writing and The Writing Revolution.
In 2017, Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler published The Writing Revolution (TWR), a book outlining a new approach for teaching writing. Since then, TWR has grown in popularity around the world. In 2021, hundreds of Australian primary and secondary school teachers received specialised training in TWR and are now using its ideas in their teaching. But how revolutionary actually is TWR? Does it simply recycle aspects of other writing pedagogies in a fresh way, or could it be the magic bullet we’ve been hoping for to address ongoing concerns about students’ writing development? In this seminar, I draw on Hochman and Wexler’s book and information shared at a TWR short course to explore how this approach lines up against more traditional product, process, and genre-based approaches, currently practised in most Australian schools.
Greg Warman
Greg has worked in education for 19 years. He is currently a Quality Teaching Literacy Coach at Tasmania’s only infants school located in southern Tasmania. The school’s literacy team have recently been nominated in the Department of Education’s Together We Inspire Award program for innovation in literacy.
Natalie Bown
Natalie currently works as a Speech Language Pathologist within the Department of Education Tasmania. During her time with the department she has been involved with the Speech Pathology Literacy Support project 2016 -2018 which involved supporting and engaging schools in the science of reading. This involved professional development, screening of children and implementation of evidenced based programs to support students at risk. Natalie is a pssionate advocate for improving literacy outcomes in schools The Science of Reading
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