Patricia (Trish) Bremner has taught, coached, mentored, presented, facilitated teaching and learning experiences for teachers and children in a range of educational settings throughout Australia including: metropolitan Melbourne; Yuendumu Community Education Centre in the Northern Territory; Batchelor College, NT; The Catholic Education Office of Melbourne & Western Australia and St Mary’s College Broome. Trish has been: a Classroom teacher from Prep to Year 6; Literacy coaching; Reading Recovery Teacher, Reading Recovery Tutor; Educational Consultant for Magabala Books. Trish currently works for the Catholic Education Office of Melbourne and is a member of the Learning and Teaching Team.
Reading Recovery in the Kimberley
In 2005, Trish met Dame Professor Marie Clay (pictured below) about an implementation of Reading Recovery in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. In 2006, Trish and Dr Janet Scull from the University of Melbourne, planned, implemented and trialled Reading Recovery in the Kimberley.
The continued successes of Reading Recovery has supported the literacy learning needs of over 500 Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Catholic, State and Aboriginal Independent Community Schools across the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Trish’s interest in teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students led to her Masters by research where she investigated the impact of teacher scaffolding of literate discourse with Indigenous multilingual students. Trish presented the results and findings of this research in 2009 in London and continues to explore and discuss literacy learning for multilingual and culturally diverse students.
4th June 2013
I’m continuing to explore the links between oral language, writing and reading.
Someone please look at this blog
I’m so proud of you Trish. Love this blog 🙂
Thanks for thought provoking conversation this morning.
I have placed your website in my favourites Trish.I hope you are impressed!
Marian I am SO impressed!
You cease to amaze me Trish. You still inspire me to work harder in the Kimberley.
hey j! how are you? SO excited to hear from you via blog. have you seen your photo on the ‘advocacy’ page?
what are you up to? xxxxx t
Dear Trish
I am a Reading Recovery tutor now working at Charles Sturt University teaching pre service teachers in Language and Reading. I came across your thesis in a search for current literature on Teaching Indigenous students but unfortunately couldn’t access it. Could you share a copy with me so I could use your learning with the students as what you have written sounds fantastic?
Best wishes
Rhonda
hi Rhonda, I’ll email you a copy ASAP.
hi trish,
was wondering if u could also send me a copy of your research paper please. about to venture on my own little RR research study.
Hi Trish,
YOu and Andy came up to us at St Mary’s fir the 2 day PD which was simply outstanding, full on but so informative!!! I based my reading grous on the Burt and it was very accurate.
Is it possible for us to have some acknowledgement of those 2 days to add into our C.V’s
Kind Regards
Lynn
Hi lyn,
I’ve just sent you an email about the 2 days pd.
So pleased about what you found with the Burt scores.
Thanks for looking at the blog. I must try and keep updating.
Hi Trish
Found my notes and in them I found your blog. Hope to catch up soon.
Cheers Stanka
Thanks Stanka,
I’d almost forgotten about this blog.
hope you found it useful
from trish b