Jo Tooley is an Education Officer (EO) at Toowoomba Catholic Schools Office (TCSO). She is coordinating the rollout of the Diocesan-wide project, Subject Discipline Literacy (SDL), to improve teacher efficacy in subject-specific literacies. The Lexis Education’s ‘3L: Language and Literacy …
An interview with Donna Schuster on the HLW online course
Lexis Education launched in July 2024 its first online, self-paced course, How Language Works. HLW is for any teacher wanting to develop an explicit understanding of how language works to support their students’ learning. Dozens of educators working in various contexts around the world are currently …
The implementation of TEMC at the Inter-Community School Zurich
As part of her presentation at the ECIS MLIE conference in February 2024, Tiffany Crook, English Language acquisition specialist at the Inter-Community School Zurich, put together this great video on the implementation of Lexis Education's 'Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms' (TEMC) …
The power of nominalisation
As teachers, our role is to move students from spoken to written realms and from written to spoken. We call this moving across the register continuum. At one end of the continuum (left), there is the most spoken language which usually happens face-to-face and accompanies some kind of …
23 strategies to scaffold EAL students’ listening and viewing
The ability to listen effectively is dependent on a complex interplay between the listener, features of the text, and the context in which the text is being listened to. While listening comprehension requires a range of abilities on the part of the listener, it is also dependent on features of the …
How to improve students’ science literacy?
Last month, Lexis Education's Director John Polias delivered a presentation at the Australian Literacy Educators' Association Conference on improving students’ science literacy through harmonising the patterns of meaning-making in the science classroom. In this video, John talks about how we, as …