Resources for Teachers

Here you'll find videos and talks for teachers.

Libby Gleeson Video from Mark Waters - Producer on Vimeo.

This video clip is from an educational video series profiling the lives of successful Australian Authors that I directed and post produced for Insight Profile. This educational video series is distributed to schools and libraries throughout Australia and NZ by VEA Victoria.

Mahtab's Story

Libby and Nahid discuss Mahtab's Story & Libby reads an excerpt from this book

PETAA: 2011 CAL Connect Project

Connecting authors & illustrators with schools

Writer in Residence at University of Sydney

New Writers' workshop with Libby Gleeson

Libby Literacy Ambassador

Libby at Hughes Primary School

Talks

These talks are all in PDF format.

• Creating a Reader: Getting Kids Started
• Words, Images, Voices. Literature for Children and Young Adults that Speaks of Justice. [2008]
• The Power of Literature. [October 2008]
• Is Literacy Education killing Our Storytellers? [ASLA XX. Adelaide 2007]
• A book that influenced me. [Bowral 2004]
• Hippocrates and Socrates. [Westmead Aug 2003]
• Unpacking the Hero. [Presented at the PETA Conference, Powerhouse Museum Oct 5 2002]
• English Years 7 -10: a parent's and writer's perspective. [Presented at a Board of Studies Symposium February 2001]
• History Forum: My Story. [Presented at the State Library, NSW 2001]
• The Great Bear V the school reader. T[his article first appeared in Practically Primary October 2000]