{"id":10380,"date":"2012-09-07T01:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2021-01-29T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T03:46:07","slug":"language-powers-up-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/09\/07\/language-powers-up-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Powers Up Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Teacher Tammy Collyer and teacher aide Dyella Gibson use a break-it-down-build-it-up method of teaching to get the most from their students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 6, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Marcus Priaulx<\/strong><\/p>\n

Children\u2019s learning is booming in Cherbourg because of a new teaching method.<\/p>\n

Many of the town’s \u00a0youngsters speak a home language with a different grammar structure to the standard Australian English they\u2019re hit with when they start school.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t believe me? Well, if I said \u201cdem ova der em looka dat diddy orse\u201d you\u2019d know what I mean, right?<\/p>\n

In case you don\u2019t, it means: \u201cThose people over there are looking at that small horse.”<\/p>\n

This language barrier is why some \u00a0Indigenous children are deemed as having English as a second language and find it hard to understand the teachers … and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Many miss the basic learning steps as a result.<\/p>\n

For this reason Cherbourg State School\u2019s Year-4 teacher Tammy Collyer has been trained in the Break-it-Down-Build-It-Up way of teaching, with dramatic results.<\/p>\n

How it works<\/strong><\/p>\n

Break-it-Down-Build-It-Up was developed by Education Queensland about five years ago as a way to recognise and value students’ home language while engaging them in learning standard Australian English.<\/p>\n

At Cherbourg this involves Miss Tammy\u2019s class using one story from which to base its English lessons.<\/p>\n

Students then use body actions to demonstrate the meaning of words and how these words work in a sentence (otherwise known as grammar).<\/p>\n

The children talk about the story, unpack the plot, look at how the author put the story together, do daily writing, discuss their opinions and how these changed as the story progresses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey become immersed in the language of the book,\u201d Ms Collyer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey become confident and familiar with the story. \u00a0It makes it fun.\u00a0 The children get really excited and animated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it.\u00a0 I thrive on their enthusiasm and they feed off each other as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

After this, they “unpack” the language used and learning about tenses, verbs, noun groups etc and how they can use them to make better sentences in standard Australian English.<\/p>\n

Other books are then brought into the learning.<\/p>\n

This term, Miss Tammy\u2019s class started with a Korean tale before it moved on to reading a traditional Aboriginal story written by former students of the school.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called Mundaggara and is about how people who look after others and the land are taken care of by the Rainbow Serpent and the people around them.<\/p>\n

The students will finish the term by writing their own story with a moral.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where all the teaching is leading to,\u201d Miss Tammy said.<\/p>\n

Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The results of the teaching method speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve gone from students who couldn\u2019t form words to now writing paragraphs,\u201d Miss Tammy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir language and amount of standard Australian English has improved dramatically; the children\u2019s confidence has soared.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re loving it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The school is now gathering data to show how the students\u2019 writing is improving because of the Break-It-Down-Build-It-Up way of teaching and its indicating a massive difference is being made.<\/p>\n

Cherbourg State School principal Peter Sansby now hopes to roll the style into all grades.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s allowing our children to show how strong and smart they really are and that they can reach their full potential,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be part of the education pathway we\u2019re building so they can lead a life of greater happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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