Resources

News items
Workshop handouts
Conference materials
Response to issues
Teaching materials
Newsletters
Scholarship Winners

NEWS ITEMS

TATE scholarship winners 2009 - Read their reports below
Erika Boas from Ogilvie High
Cameron Hindrum from Riverside High
Rachel Oldham from New Norfolk High

Survey Results
Findings of the 2006/2007 survey of Secondary Teachers of English in Tasmanian schools

AATE Statement
AATE statement on the teaching of English in the twenty-first century

WORKSHOP HANDOUTS

Lee Burton
Media literacy
Workshop notes (word 220KB)
Media literacy presentation (ppt 4.1MB)

Jenny Kenny, Janine Davison, Charles Morgan
Using innovative digital resources to support the teaching of English and the Essentials
Workshop notes (word 2.2MB)

Steven Figg
English and the Essential Learnings
Workshop powerpoint (ppt 120KB)
Literary Inquiry
Notes on literary inquiry (word 76KB)
Workshop powerpoint (ppt 52KB)

Professor Ross Gibson
Life After Wartime
The Rise of Multimedia Systems (word 60KB)
Negative Truth (Reflections on the photographs in Life After Wartime) (word 1MB)

James Maloney
Workshop
Workshop questions (word 24KB)

CONFERENCE MATERIALS

2009 AATE/ALEA National Conference

Conference Papers

Videos of Plenary Addresses
Professor P. David Pearson
Dr Peter O'Connor
Professor Scott Paris
Professor Jeffrey Wilhelm
A conversation with Pirjo Sinko

2008 TATE/ALEA Conference

Conference Report (word 32KB)

2007 TATE/ALEA State Conference

Jeff Wilhelm
Slide presentation of Professor Wilhelm’s opening address
Video of Professor Wilhelm's closing address
Slideshow of conference delegates
Argument document (word 87KB)
Inquiry document (word 100KB)
Download Conference Report (word 48KB)

Mark Howie
Reading the speeches in the context of the enlightenment project (word 60KB)
Government of the people, by the people, for the people - Abraham Lincoln 1863 (word 28KB)
Rhetoric: Frameworks for Analysis and Evaluation (word 32KB)
Great Speeches (ppt 932KB)

2006 TATE/ALEA State Conference

Jennie Bales
Thinking through literature - junior primary (ppt 252KB)
Thinking through literature - senior primary (ppt 272KB)

Mark Howie
The Importance of Being Politically Correct (ppt 560KB)
(Re)Framing 7-10 English (ppt 1.6MB)
Representing CARPE DIEM through Time (pdf 24KB)
mETAphor (pdf 3.9MB)
Critical Reading and Writing Pedagogy (ppt 576KB)

2005 TATE/ALEA Conference

2005 Conference inspires and challenges teachers

RESPONSE TO ISSUES

Letter from State President, Charles Morgan
Sunday Tasmanian October 2005
In response to Patsy Crawford’s column criticising English Studies
Download (word 24KB)

Letter from Bruce Fairfax
Sunday Examiner October 2005
In response to an article criticising the pre-tertiary English Studies syllabus
Download (word 28KB)

Letter from State President, Charles Morgan
Sunday Examiner October 2005
In response to an article criticising the pre-tertiary English Studies syllabus
Download (word 28KB)

Untested truths of the 'Science' of reading, Mark Howie
In response to Dr Nelson's report into the way our children are taught to read
Download (word 32KB)

Combined AATE, ALEA, PETA response to Teaching Reading
December 2005
Peak Literacy Associations urge a balanced approach to teaching literacy
Download (pdf 28KB)

Connecting with the World of Texts, Ray Misson
In response to some of the recent charges against English
Download (word 116KB)

TEACHING MATERIALS

LTAG learning sequences with an English focus - Oct 2005 (word 40KB)
Literature-based learning sequences on the LTAG (word 36KB)

NEWSLETTERS

TATE Newsletter October 2007 - Download (pdf 892KB)
TATE Newsletter Volume 2, 2006 - Download (pdf 335KB)

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS - Read their reports below

2009 TATE scholarship winners
Erika Boas from Ogilvie High
Cameron Hindrum from Riverside High
Rachel Oldham from New Norfolk High

2008 TATE scholarship winners
Claire Rowe from Ogilvie High
Romany Hunt from Geilston Bay High
Emma Norris from Hellyer College