Lindsay Williams A Short Professional History Work History Years Role Location 1983-1985 Teacher Springsure Secondary Department 1986-1989 Teacher Shailer Park State High School 1989-1991 Marker, Writing Task 1990-1991 Subject Master (English) and Key Teacher Dakabin State High School for Years 1 to 10 English syllabus 1991-1992 Teacher of External English (part-time) Kingston College of Continuing Education 1991-1993 Marker, External English 1992-1998 Subject Master (English) Park Ridge State High School 1992 (June) to 1993 (January) Education Officer (Special Duties) working as part of English syllabus team Central Office of the Queensland Education Department 1999-2006 Head of Faculty (English)* Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie) 2004 & 2005 Tutor (Functional grammar unit) Queensland University of Technology Late 2006- May 2007 From January 2007 to present March November 2007 Casual curriculum review and writing (including editing of Essential Learning Statements for English; grammar scope and sequence; grammar workshops and participant booklets; exemplar units and assessment for the Curriculum Exchange) Founder, Director, Writer and Presenter Sessional lecturer and tutor in Senior Years English Curriculum Queensland Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting directorate, and Education Queensland Wordsmart Consulting Griffith University 2007 Contract teaching Education Queensland 2008-2009 Teacher Special Education Centre (1 Balmoral State High School day per week) March April Lecturer and tutor Middle Years English Griffith University 2008 Curriculum July-October Lecturer and tutor Senior Years English Griffith University 2008 Curriculum March-May 2009 Lecturing and tutoring Middle Years English University of Queensland (Ipswich Campus) 2010 Lecturing, tutoring and Coordinating Queensland University of Technology English Curriculum 2011-present Lecturing, tutoring and Coordinating English Curriculum University of Quensland *In 2005, while employed at Churchie, I assisted the Queensland Studies Authority in the delivery of their English Conferences designed to introduce teachers to the new Years 1 to 10 English Syllabus. This involved two days at Magnetic Island in far north Queensland and a number of days in Brisbane. 1
Academic qualifications Diploma of teaching, Brisbane College of Advanced Education (1982) Bachelor of Educational Studies, University of Queensland (1988) PhD candidate, University of New England (current; upgraded from Masters) Awards The Peter Botsman Memorial Award 2003 for his dedication to the practice, promotion and development of quality English teaching in Queensland Committee Memberships Year Committee 1989-1993 English Subject Advisory Committee, BSSSS 1991 North Brisbane Language Arts Project 1991-1993 Queensland Reference Group for the National English Statement and Profile 1991-1995 External English Examinations Sub-Committee, BSSSS 1993-1996 Language Reference Group, South Coast Region 1994-1998 English Review Panel, South Coast Region 1994-1995 Steering Committee for Global Education in English Project 2000-2003 Subject Advisory Committee (Years 1-10 English), QSCC/QSA 2002-2004 Review Panel Chair (BO1 Senior English 1987), Brisbane Central District 2003-2005 Member of B35 Senior English 2002 Panel 2004-2006 Member of B37 English Extension Panel 2004 Member of special PD committee for Queensland Studies Authority 2005-2006 Member of P-12 Subject Advisory Committee (English) for Queensland Studies Authority 2004-2005 Member of the Academic Program for national conference of the AATE 2005-2009 Member of the English Teachers Association of Queensland (ETAQ) Management Committee; Vice-President in 2009 2007-2009 Member of the PD sub-committee of ETAQ (organizing PD program for English teachers, including taking on role of site manager for the August State Conference) 2007-2009 ETAQ coordinator of the Courier Mail/QIEU/ETAQ Literary Competition 2008-2009 Member of ETAQ committee overseeing re-design of ETAQ website 2008-2009 Member of organising committee for 2009 ASFLA National Conference in Brisbane 2009-2010 Vice-President of the English Teachers Association of Queensland Research and Other Project Involvements Year Project 1991 Senior Schooling Autonomous Learning in the Senior School 1991 Metropolitan East English Language Arts Cross-Referencing Task Force 1992- Asian Studies Magnet Schools and Asian Studies Project 1997 1993 Identifying Key Features of Selected Genres Workshop 1995 Global Education: Integrating Curriculum and Professional Development, Griffith University 1995-1996 The Production of Power, Knowledge and Truth within Discourse of a Critical Literacy Classroom with Dr Wendy Morgan Research and other project involvements continued page 3 2
Year Project 1996 Symposium to review implementation of the English syllabus for Years 1 to 10 1997 Alternative Literacy Approaches in Secondary Schools research by Christa van Kraayenoord (Schonell Special Education Research Centre, University of Queensland) 1998 Technology, Critical Literacy and English Teachers with Dr Wendy Morgan 2001-02 Syllabus in development and trial school for Years 1 to 10 English syllabus, QSA 2007 Poetry teaching in Australian Schools report for Film Australia Teaching activities for Digital Learning website 2007 Activities on the teaching of The Red Shoe for the National Reading Day website (DEST and the AATE) 2007 Using graphic novels in the classroom with staff at Wynnum State High School 2007 Main content writer for DVD ROM curriculum package based on the Lockie Leonard television series, Australian Children s Television Foundation 2007 On-line material development for Film Australia s Digital Learning site Dec 2007 Content writer for two on-line learning modules for Griffith University Reading in the Middle Jan School and Middle Years English Content Oct-Nov Reading professional development and on-site coaching, Ormiston College 07 Jan Aug Developer and presenter of Writing Across the Curriculum Project for Calamvale College 2008 Workshops Presented Since 1990, I have presented hundreds of workshops on language, literature and literacy related topics. In 2012 alone, I have presented workshops at: Aquinas College (Gold Coast) Aviation High Kelvin Grove College Bundaberg State High School Mt Alvernia College (Bundaberg) Padua College Cairns State High School (Cairns) Ormiston College Cannon Hill Anglican College Pedare Christian College (Adelaide) Redlands Christian College Cavendish Road High School (Redlands) Ryan Catholic College (Townsville) Centenary State High School St Edmunds College (Ipswich) St Francis College (Logan) Centenary Heights State High School St Margaret Mary s College (Toowoomba) (Townsville) Emmaus College (Rockhampton) Stuartholme College English Teachers Association of Sunshine Beach State High School Queensland (March seminar and state (Sunshine Coast) conference) The Cathedral School (Townsville) Gympie State High School (Gympie) Wavell State High School Fairholme College (Toowoomba) Wellington Point State High Harris Fields State School (Logan) School Ignatius Park College (Townsville) Wynnum State High School (Brisbane Indooroopilly State High School 3
Published Articles and Other Publications Books and articles Pathma Moodley, Wendy Morgan, Lindsay Williams, Susan Werba and Leith Cameron A World of Texts: Global Understanding in the English Classroom, Global Learning Centre, Brisbane, 1995 Wendy Morgan with Pam Gilbert, Colin Lankshear, Susan Werba, Lindsay Williams Critical Literacy Readings and Resources, AATE, Australia, 1996 Wendy Morgan, Barbara Vasdekis, Lindsay Williams Teaching and Learning (About) Written Language: Approaches through Functional Grammar and Critical Literacy, LINC, Toowoomba, 1996 Lindsay Williams Autonomous Learning Through English and the Social Sciences (ALESS) in Focus on the Learner: Sample Case Studies, Queensland Department of Education, Queensland, 1992 Lindsay Williams Critical Literacy in the Senior English Curriculum in John Fein and Vicki Keliher (eds) Global Education Integrating Curriculum and Professional Development for Global Education, Griffith University, QUT and GLC, Brisbane, 1996 Lindsay Williams Different Voices: Global Education in English in Words Worth, Volume 29, Number 2, June 1996, pp20-28 Lindsay Williams Language of the Family: a Critical Literacy Unit in Words Worth, Volume 28, Number 2, June 1995, pp30-39 Lindsay Williams Practical Approaches to Critical Literacy in English in Australia, Number 105, September 1993, Resources Section Lindsay Williams, Nurturing creativity: Writing Brisbane revisited in Words Worth, Volume 37, Number 2, June 2004, pp31-37 Lindsay Williams, An ocean of possibilities: exploring the potential of electronic writing in Words Worth, 2004 Lindsay Williams What is Critical Literacy? in Independent Education, Volume 35, Number 3, November 2005, pp26-27 Lindsay Williams (2009) Secondary English teaching: a survival manual Volume 1 (second edition), Logan: Wordsmart Consulting Lindsay Williams (2007) Secondary English teaching: a survival manual Volume 2, Logan: Wordsmart Consulting Lindsay Williams (2009) Down and dirty with grammar in Literacy learning in the Middle Years, Volume 17, Number 1, February See more one page 5 4
Teacher Notes For Walker Books Merchant of Venice (graphic novel) by Garth Hinds For Allen and Unwin Against the Odds by Marjolijn Hof Darius Bell and the Crystal Bees by Odo Hirsch Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool by Odo Hirsch Note: All of the above are available on-line. Liberator by Richard Harland Louis Beside Himself by Anna Fienberg Worldshaker by Richard Harland Yellowcake by Margo Lanagan Other I have authored all the text, including resources, for www.englishteacherguru.com. Books (Partly) About the Park Ridge Critical English Program Dr Wendy Morgan Critical Literacy in the Classroom: the Art of the Possible, Routledge, London, 1997 Technology on a Critical Literacy Curriculum in Digital Rhetorics: Literacies and Technologies in Education Current Practices and Future Directions, Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Australia, 1997 Hobbies and interests Photography Bush walking Reading Referees Associate Professor Karen Moni Lecturer University of Queensland k.moni@uq.edu.au Professor Mary Macken-Horarik Lecturer University of New England mmackenh@une.edu.au Deborah Cohen Australian Children s Television Foundation deborah.cohen@actf.com.au Garry Collins President English Teachers Association of Queensland gazco48@bigpond.net.au 5