How to use the CoSTEY and CoST LMS Dashboards: Information Session

by | December 12, 2025

In this information session, Dr Tessa Daffern will explain and demonstrate how to use and navigate the Learning Management Systems (LMS) for the CoSTEY and CoST Assessments and Dashboards. Dr Tessa Daffern will outline how to: • upload class lists on the LMS...
Extending spelling instruction for advanced writers

Extending spelling instruction for advanced writers

by | November 30, 2025

In this interactive workshop, attendees will participate in and learn how to design rich and engaging extension tasks that promote deep linguistic knowledge to extend advanced writers. The tasks capitalise on metalanguage and connect spelling instruction with reading...

Explicitly teaching the components of spelling

by | August 19, 2025

In this practical course, build your pedagogical content knowledge to implement explicit spelling instruction using a multi-tiered system of support grounded in Triple Word Form Theory. Informed by Tessa’s extensive research on spelling, as well as her experiences as...

Differentiating and Assessing Spelling

by | November 30, 2025

This workshop includes FREE curated professional reading materials About the workshop: Differentiated spelling instruction can be complex. In this workshop, Dr Tessa Daffern offers clear suggestions on how to ensure your students are always appropriately supported and...