Abstract

This paper is for educators who are interested in the teaching and learning issues regarding boys and literacy learning. It presents one school's approach in Australia dealing with the overwhelming number of issues related to poor literacy performance through a professional development program for teachers based on a broader definition of literacy that takes into account the complex interrelated elements of class, ethnicity, gender, race and socio economic background.

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Patrizia Fattor is the Coordinator of Educational Support Services at Parade College, a large Catholic secondary college for boys. She has been teaching for almost twenty years with experience in the primary, secondary and adult sectors, and has facilitated and participated in various projects such as, the National Professional Development Project, an RMIT project Teaching in the New World of Literacy, and the Deakin University, Middle Years Literacy Research Project. She is also in the final stages of her Master of Education Degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne (RMIT University), Australia.

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30 min. Paper

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Overhead Projector

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Australia