The Powerpoint is available here and the video is at Short Stories and Poetry or https://vimeo.com/678041090. Password is town5viL122
Early Career Conference Keynote and Workshops
Essential English Community of Practice
March Seminar (Lisa Bottomley, Ali Alizadeh, Erin Geddes, Anne Wood and Narelle McBride)
May Master class - Karen Yager - Powerpoint of presentation and 3 handouts.
State Conference - Bronwyn Lea, Claire Hansen, Karen Yager, Annette Curnow, Tny Hytch, Meredith Walker, Lindsay Williams, Anne Wood and Georgina Brown.
March Seminar: Text List Crash Course
Writing and reading workshops: an alternative to the current organizational orthodoxy of units of work in junior secondary English presented by Garry Collins
Writing Literary Interpretations in English presented by Lindsay Williams
Write the World presented by Juliette Bentley
Panel Power: Graphic Novels in the English classroom presented by Di Laycock (Seminar 2, 2014)
Digital Stories: From production to assessment presented by Dr Kelli McGraw (Seminar 2, 2014
'Increasingly complex and sophisticated texts': Computer games, literacy and design presented by Prof Catherine Beavis and Dr Michael Dezuanni (Seminar 2, 2014)
Persuasion texts for global citizenship: exploring multimodal literacy presented by Kami Hazlewood for World Vision Australia (Annual State Conference, August 2014)
The 'Brave New World' of Senior English: functional grammar as a tool for intervening in literary texts presented by Melanie Wild (Annual State Conference, August 2014)
Re-imagining the Classics: accessible and practical approaches for using classic literature in the multimodal 21st Century Classroom presented by Cheryl Moore and Fiona Rousch (Annual State Conference, August 2014)
The teacher as chameleon presented by Dr Anita Jetnikoff (Annual State Conference, 16 August, 2014). Includes Opening Address, presentation of Jim Buckley Memorial Scholarships and Botsman Award Presentation. Keynote starts at 21:00
Anticipation Guides for Conclusions
Jackie has provided an overview of her keynote address and a handout for practical work
The PowerPoint from Jackie's keynote address We Read to know we're not alone can be downloaded as a pdf.
An Oldie but a Goodie is available .
Beryl Exley's support materials
Notes from Kathy Emtage's workshop
Donna Pendergast:Final Millenials and Learning
Powerpoint Literature Meets Grammar
John Acutt: Themes, metaphors and motifs in narrative writing. Slides and video
Daniel Fallon: Reading-for-Beauty through Reading-to-Learn video
Fiona Laing: How to build the muscles for writing feature articles Slides and video
Literature Community of PracticeETAQ plans to host a Literature Community of Practice on Saturday 9 May. This will be an online only event. Interested teachers are invited to submit a workshop proposal. We would especially welcome proposals on the texts new to the EA list in 2025-7 (Beloved, Stasiland, Antony and Cleopatra, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alias Grace, Cloudstre... | ||||||||||||
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Poetry ToolboxStudents are reading less widely than ever before, yet English teachers are still expected to equip students with the analytical and creative skills demanded by the senior curriculum. Poetry offers a powerful way to bridge this gap, its brevity and intensity make it the perfect form for developing deep thinking, close reading, and expressive wri... | |||||||||||||||
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Grammar Workshop - 23 May 2026This event is offered to assist attendees to develop their understandings of grammar in order to fully comprehend and to effectively teach the Australian Curriculum: English (AC:E). Also highly relevant to Years 11 & 12. Indeed it is Garry's contention: If you don’t have a reasonable grasp of grammar, including the functional... | ||||||||||||
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External Assessment Preparation 2026External Assessment Preparation Want your students to feel motivated and prepared? Join us for our exteranl examination event whcih draws on our collective learning from 2020. With the very generous assistance of academics across the university sector, these events provide expert support for General English, EAL/D and Literature. Our flexib... | ||||||||||||
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State Conference 2026The theme for State conference 2026 is Encounters - Encounters with literature, language and literacy and most importantly, with the young people in our classrooms. The program will follow the usual pattern of 2 keynotes and 3 workshop sessions of 55 minutes each. We are excited to confirm that the keynotes will be presen... | ||||||||||||
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This is the first time I have been to an ETAQ conference and it was really sensational to get so much at all of the sessions.
ETAQ conferences always have sessions that make me excited to be a teacher.
I know that ETAQ conferences in the past have never disappointed - valuable, relevant, practical, inspiring so I came again.
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