Tactical Teaching Teacher Resource Books

Tactical Teaching is a series of three non-sequential, intensive, highly practical workshops of 2 hours duration, in Speaking and Listening,Thinking or Reading.

The workshops and associated course books provide practical, hands-on approaches and activities that can be easily implemented in middle and high school settings.

Teachers can take the ideas straight back to their classrooms and successfully support students deal with the literacy demands in their subject as well as enhancing the understanding of content.

	Tactical Teaching: Reading How to Help Students Use Reading Processes This course book and accompanying workshop explores teaching procedures and activities that support students in making sense of what they read as they work through reading processes such as: activating background knowledge, clarifying vocabulary or monitoring understanding. » Professional Development
	Tactical Teaching: Reading How to Make Reading Strategies Visible Successful readers intuitively draw upon a range of strategies when confronted by challenging texts. These include strategies such as adjusting reading rate, re-reading, connecting and self questioning. Research highlights that readers benefit greatly from explicit teaching of reading strategies – and this course book and workshop provides teachers with a range of activities to make reading strategies visible for students. » Professional Development
	Tactical Teaching: Reading How to Build Text Form Knowledge Students’ knowledge and use of purpose, organisation, language features and text structure helps them to comprehend text. In this workshop participants examine practical activities from the course book that will help students understand these different patterns within texts and thus assist comprehension. » Professional Development

	Tactical Teaching: Speaking and Listening Getting More Bang for Your Blah-Promoting Effective Listening This course book will help teachers reflect on the strategies effective listeners use, and expand their repertoire of tactical teaching and learning activities that support students as they practise these strategies. Readers will encounter over a dozen innovative ways of exploring learning area subject matter. » Professional Development
	Tactical Teaching: Speaking and Listening Harnessing Hot Air-Making Student Talk Work This course book focuses upon the strategies we use when we speak effectively. It helps teachers expand their repertoire of tactical teaching and learning activities to include activities that encourage students to use talk as a powerful tool of both thought and expression. » Professional Development
	Tactical Teaching: Speaking and Listening Notetaking and Notemaking-The Power Platform of Speaking and Listening This course book highlights the value of notetaking and notemaking for speaking and listening in a wide variety of settings. It unravels the mystery of why most students struggle with maximising notetaking and notemaking, providing teachers and students with strategic ways of organising and recording their thoughts. » Professional Development

	Tactical Teaching: Thinking Why Is It So? Stimulating Critical Thinking The ability to evaluate information and opinions in a systematic, purposeful, efficient manner requires the skill of critical thinking. This course book explores what it means to think critically: what processes are applied and what strategies can be employed to enable students to think critically. A range of powerful teaching activities that can be adapted for use across all learning areas is included. » Professional Development
	Tactical Teaching: Thinking Looking Outside the Box: Encouraging Creative Thinking Creative thinkers are able to view and understand the world in new and different ways. In this course book a series of practical activities has been developed to help teachers explore ways of teaching students to think creatively to achieve improved learning outcomes. These activities can be adapted and used across all learning areas. » Professional Development
	Tactical Teaching: Thinking Mirror to the Mind: Developing Metacognition Have you ever thought about how you think and learn? Teaching students about the metacognitive process enables them to develop strategies to understand and enhance their own learning skills. This course book offers a range of activities that teachers can use with students in identifying their thinking processes and how to apply them effectively to improve learning outcomes. » Professional Development