Visual representation categorises and organises ideas in a particular way. This broad term encompasses other terms such as graphic outline, structured overview and concept map. It is one of a number of pre-reading strategies which assists students to gain meaning from the text by: providing a …
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Lexis Education wins Runner Up prize for COBIS Supporting Member of the Year Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Lexis Education has won the Runner Up prize at the prestigious COBIS Supporting Member of the Year Awards 2019. We would like to thank the wonderful British School of Jakarta for nominating us. We are genuinely humbled to receive such warm recognition from the …
The brain and teaching: using research on neuroplasticity to inform our teaching
By John Polias The human brain is a hugely complex organ and the talk about it is complex and often hotly contested. The fact that it garners a lot of attention in the media as well as in popular literature makes talk of the brain increasingly interesting, and necessary, for educators. This …
Lexis Education’s Literacy for Learning course impacting student achievement
Lexis Education continues to bring an evidence-based, whole-school, language-based pedagogy to more classrooms in Australia and around the world to take teaching and learning to the next level. We are excited to be sharing the research conducted in 2018 by Dr. Dorota Pomagalska, 'Evaluation of …
Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms – Hong Kong, March 2019
Thank you to the Australian International School Hong Kong for hosting a highly successful Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms tutor training. Really enjoyed doing this. Heavy impact. I have grown considerably in 5 days! Intense but very useful. It will take some thought and time to pull …
What is genre and why do you need to know about it?
Our pedagogy ought to be shaped by an understanding of the role of language in learning. This underpins the construction of knowledge, which is why we, as teachers, need to have a comprehensive understanding of genre and the language resources associated with each. How can we define genre? Genres …