Robyn Wild

Literacy consultant

Who is Robyn Wild and what can she offer, as you implement the new English Syllabus?
Robyn Wild is a literacy consultant, offering teachers and schools opportunities to reflect on and refine their literacy teaching and supporting them as they implement the new Australian Curriculum and the New South Wales English K-6 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Robyn offers participants a chance to hear about and see successful teaching and learning strategies in action, and challenges them to reflect on their own practice. Robyn shares effective resources that help teachers to streamline their planning, programming and timetabling, leaving teachers with more time to actually teach their classes. She highlights how every task that students undertake becomes an assessment opportunity, upon which all subsequent learning is based. Robyn's presentations, workshops and customised programs are solidly based on research and are extremely practical.

What topics can be explored?

Professional learning sessions are customised to address your school's specific requirements. All sessions focus on enhancing literacy development. They are based on current theory and emphasise the use of quality literature. Cross-curriculum links are emphasised and include suggestions for planning and programming. Course topics and content will be customised to your school's specific needs. Topics include: Teaching Reading Teaching Comprehension Guided Reading: What does it look like? Guided Reading: using leveled texts and quality literature...is there a problem? Reciprocal Reading Literacy Centres Teaching Writing Teaching Spelling Where do I start? Supporting early career teachers Organising for classroom success Language, literacy and literature in Kindergarten Planning and programming for literacy teaching in K-2 Literacy and numeracy in pre-school Literacy and play in Kindergarten Using quality literature with IWBs in Kindergarten

Who's invited?
Robyn can work with your school exclusively or in conjunction with neighbouring schools. Sessions can also be targeted for specific groups (e.g. P-2, K-2, 3-6, grade or stage groups, early career teachers, specialist staff).

When can Robyn work with your staff?

These sessions may be delivered during school development days, afternoon professional learning sessions (between one to three hours), evening/dinner meetings and weekend workshops.

How could Robyn work with staff?

lectures workshops opportunities for collegiate sharing demonstration lessons small group discussions age specific session, i.e. K-2, 3-6, K-6, Pre-school, specialist staff mentoring long or short term school involvement, involving all/any of the above

What's Robyn's background?

Robyn taught for the New South Wales Department of Education and Training between 1979 and 2000, when she worked with students and teachers in numerous schools around Sydney as a classroom teacher and assistant principal. During that time she was also a regional literacy consultant and senior curriculum officer in the DET's Early Learning Unit. She taught in New York as an exchange teacher in 1985 and again in 2001 as a literacy consultant. Since 2001 Robyn has provided professional development to teachers in Departmental, Catholic and Independent schools around Sydney, New South Wales and Australia as a literacy consultant and works with Education students from time to time at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. In 2006 Robyn received an Outstanding Professional Services Award, for promoting teacher professionalism, from the Professional Teachers Council, NSW. She's presented at numerous regional, state and national conferences and workshops and has been a board member of the Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) and is a committee member of the Early Childhood Education Council (ECEC) and a member of Australian Literacy Educators Association (ALEA). Whilst Robyn predominantly conducts professional development workshops and seminars, (as seen in the Sydney Morning Herald) she wrote Where do I start? Stimulating ideas for literacy-rich primary classrooms and has written and co-authored numerous texts for the NSW Department of Education and Organising for literacy teaching: A Kindergarten snapshot, a National Literacy and Numeracy week video. Over the years she has also judged competitions such as the SMH's Write around Australia competition.

How do I contact Robyn? www.robynwild.com robyn_wild@hotmail.com 02) 9365 2476 0417 200 830