Courses

Customisable Courses

Lexis offers a range of professional development courses that address the literacy of subject areas like science, history, geography, English literature, mathematics and art. The titles of these programs are:

Developing the Language of the Study of Society and Environment (Humanities) Education

Doing, Talking and Writing Science: How Students are Apprenticed into the World of Science through Language 

Exploring How Meanings are Made in Mathematics

These courses can be tailor-made and are offered for delivery at the client’s school or city if they are sharing with other schools. The courses consist of a total of 15 hours of training, face-to-face. There are readings and activities to be completed between sessions that would usually require a further 15 hours of commitment by the teachers.

The timing and period of the training are negotiable.

Lexis Education and DECS Publishing Courses

Lexis Education is the sole provider of accredited tutor trainers for the internationally-acclaimed professional development courses:

Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms: Language in Learning across the Curriculum

Language and Literacy: Classroom Applications of Functional Grammar

ESL in the Mainstream for the Early Learner

These courses have been developed by John Polias and Brian Dare with other writers within the Department of Education and Children’s Services in the State of South Australia and are managed by the publishing arm of the Department, DECS Publishing.

For all the necessary information on what these courses consist of, how and where they are offered and how to register interest your interest in participating in the training, please visit the DECS Publishing website, Unlocking The World.

Lexis Education has been collaborating with the Education Bureau of Hong Kong to deliver a range of courses.

> John Polias with Mrs Bette Li, Project Director, Education Bureau, Hong Kong.