Poetry Professional Development

Teachers

School Staff Meetings, Curriculum Days

A. Poetry P.D. Session

Be enthused to teach poetry in your classroom with creativity, humour, enjoyment and ease.

I will model, in a P.D. session, a wide variety of poetry forms, ideas and techniques suitable for students from Prep to Year 8—or tailored to the needs of your own school.

Free ‘A-Z Book of Poetry Forms’ with every booking.

NEW ONE-DAY P.D COURSES

  1. A Poetry Rich Classroom
    Integrate poetry with your spelling program.
    Integrate poetry with your writing program
  2. Mandala Poetry
  3. Performance Poetry

You can find my upcoming courses at my page on the TTA Website.

B. Performance Poetry

I will model a wide range of poems suitable for performing in front of an audience. These poems can be taken back to your classrooms (P–6) for the children to write their own versions for a whole school concert or for assembly items.

Free Poetry Performance book with every booking.

C. Mandala Poetry / Using Mandalas

A session on the many different ways you can use this medium as an adult, and with your class.

P.D. Testimonials

Your Poetry P.D. was an integral part of our professional development program. It was strongly focussed on the needs of young literacy learners and was useful in extending participants knowledge of poetry forms and teaching practices. The feedback from participants was extremely positive and indicated that the planning and delivery of your session more than met their expectations.

Joan Bradbury
Assistant General Manager
Early Years of Schooling Branch

Lots of practical ideas, fantastic, practical and humorous, thank you so much Jo, well presented, hilarious, enthused me, informative, I now know how to use a myriad of forms with my students, inspiring and informative, great ideas, most worthwhile.

Comments from evaluation forms
Early Years of Schooling Conferences Melbourne 1999-2005