Stepping Out
Teacher Resource Books

Stepping Out provides middle and high school teachers with a selection of powerful teaching ideas and tools that help secondary students build a repertoire of reading and writing strategies. Using these strategies students meet the reading and writing demands and learn content in all learning areas. The resource, which acknowledges the long-term nature of literacy improvement, provides a conduit for developing successful whole school and learning area approaches that impact positively on student learning outcomes.

The following Stepping Out teacher resource books are available.

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Make Their Heads Spin-Improving Learning in the Middle Years This text highlights key issues related to the specific context of the middle and secondary years of schooling. It aims to raise awareness about factors that impact on teaching, learning and assessment in these contexts. The text provides a clear depiction of the context, along with practical suggestions for how and where an improvement effort might be focussed. » Professional Development

Success For All-Selecting Appropriate Learning Strategies When students’ literacy skills are improved, they are able to process information more effectively, and they have greater understandings about subject-specific content. Increasingly, teachers are required to cater for a wide range of abilities in their classrooms. This text provides a range of practical reading, writing and general teaching strategies to support the adolescent student across all learning areas. » Professional Development

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"A useful and relevant course, I feel privileged to have received this information." Classroom Teacher, Australia - 2005 "Really useful and relevant strategies were presented that I can adapt to use in the classroom." Secondary Teacher, Australia - 2005