Professional Development for Teachers

Using my many years of hands-on practical experience working in hundreds of schools-primary and secondary, around Australia, I provide Writing Workshops for teachers to skill them on practical ways to challenge getting their students to both read and write.

Even the most reluctant male reader will need the fundamentals of reading if they are to enter a trade, read a contract, provide quotes, and it is this basic premise that I use to show the relevance of reading as a Life skill

• Archie is a qualified teacher and was nominated for the Victorian Teacher Excellence Awards.

Topics:

• Getting through to the non-reader in your class
• Why being bored with reading is not the same as not wanting to read
• Personal experiences from time in the classroom as an English teacher working with all boys.
• Why being a male doesn’t condem you to illiteracy
• Tricks to get boys reading…and loving it