Speaking in schools
I often present talks and workshops for teenagers, online or in person. To enquire about a visit, please contact the following agencies.
In Western Australia: Outside of Western Australia:
Testimonials
A.J.’s willingness to adapt on the fly and adjust her schedule was paramount to the success of the session. It was absolutely brilliant in terms of content and was perfectly tailored to their assessment task. As a teacher, I garnered insider tips and tricks to improve young students’ writing and the early feedback from some of my top students was fantastic. In fact, one teacher in the session already shared a writing task to the teaching team based on her presentation today. Thank you, A.J., for your efforts in preparing and presenting. Can’t wait to do it again next year. (English Teacher, Brisbane independent school.)
It was such an inspiration and a pleasure to hear A.J. speak today. As for Hive I chose to teach it to my mainstream year 8 English last year. It was a great novel to use as a vehicle for teaching many of the concepts the English curriculum is based around. However, the thing that struck me the most was the joy my students received in reading it. I can’t recall another text that I have used in my English classroom that has had the same effect on the students. Initially, I tried to control the pace at which we read the novel to support them in processing the strange world. here were students chomping at the bit to keep reading it, complaining that they didn’t want to wait anymore – for them, I relented. They finished reading the novel so quickly and moved on to Rogue. There were only a few copies in the library and they organised the order in which they would each read it – they really chased up the 2nd novel. I was so delighted to see so many of my so enthralled by the world and characters and problems explored in Hive and Rogue. Thank you, A.J. Betts!
(English Teacher, Perth public school.)
I often present talks and workshops for teenagers, online or in person. To enquire about a visit, please contact the following agencies.
In Western Australia: Outside of Western Australia:
- Booked Out (Victoria).
Testimonials
A.J.’s willingness to adapt on the fly and adjust her schedule was paramount to the success of the session. It was absolutely brilliant in terms of content and was perfectly tailored to their assessment task. As a teacher, I garnered insider tips and tricks to improve young students’ writing and the early feedback from some of my top students was fantastic. In fact, one teacher in the session already shared a writing task to the teaching team based on her presentation today. Thank you, A.J., for your efforts in preparing and presenting. Can’t wait to do it again next year. (English Teacher, Brisbane independent school.)
It was such an inspiration and a pleasure to hear A.J. speak today. As for Hive I chose to teach it to my mainstream year 8 English last year. It was a great novel to use as a vehicle for teaching many of the concepts the English curriculum is based around. However, the thing that struck me the most was the joy my students received in reading it. I can’t recall another text that I have used in my English classroom that has had the same effect on the students. Initially, I tried to control the pace at which we read the novel to support them in processing the strange world. here were students chomping at the bit to keep reading it, complaining that they didn’t want to wait anymore – for them, I relented. They finished reading the novel so quickly and moved on to Rogue. There were only a few copies in the library and they organised the order in which they would each read it – they really chased up the 2nd novel. I was so delighted to see so many of my so enthralled by the world and characters and problems explored in Hive and Rogue. Thank you, A.J. Betts!
(English Teacher, Perth public school.)
Teaching Notes
My novels are studied in a number of Year 9, 10, 11 and 12 classes. Teaching resources can be download for free below.
Teaching Unit created by Robyn Sheahan-Bright for Pan Macmillan
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Teaching Unit created by Robyn
Sheahan-Bright for Pan Macmillan
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Teaching Unit
by Text Publishing
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Teaching Unit
by Reading Australia
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Teaching Unit by Fremantle Press
Teaching Unit
by Fremantle Press