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Contribute illustrations for the Dystinct Magazine

Illustration opportunities for the upcoming
March 2023 issue of DYSTINCT Mag

Callout #1 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Understanding Executive Functions - The Impact of Task Initiation Difficulties

This article explains how task initiation, an executive functioning skill, can be a genuine difficulty for many students and how educators can help students overcome struggles with task initiation in classrooms.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Child hesitating before getting started on an assigned task.

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a child holding a pencil and frowning hard with a large thought bubble over their head. (Text will be filled into this thought bubble when designing the article)

Callout #2 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Understanding Executive Functions - The Impact of Task Initiation Difficulties

This article explains how task initiation, an executive functioning skill, can be a genuine difficulty for many students and how educators can help students overcome struggles with task initiation in classrooms.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Multistep tasks can feel like climbing Mount Everest / Fear of Failure

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a child looking up at Mount Everest in fear.

Callout #3 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Understanding Executive Functions - The Impact of Task Initiation Difficulties

This article explains how task initiation, an executive functioning skill, can be a genuine difficulty for many students and how educators can help students overcome struggles with task initiation in classrooms.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Scaffolding builds up students’ confidence.

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a happy child riding a bicycle with one training wheel still attached and a parent standing behind holding a spare training wheel while looking at the child proudly.

Callout #4 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Nurturing Neurodiversity and Empowering Neurodiverse Learners to Drive Their Own Brains

This article discusses the importance of adopting a strengths-based approach when addressing the learning needs of neurodiverse individuals and provides practical tips on how educators can ensure neurodiverse students are provided with every opportunity to reach their full potential.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Metacognition (thinking about thinking)

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a child showing a colourful busy brain inside the child’s head. 

Callout #5 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Whole Class Teaching Lifts All Learners

This article discusses how robust whole class instruction at tier 1 allows all students including struggling learners to realise their academic potential.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Good quality classroom instruction

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a teacher in front of a classroom of engaged students.

Callout #6 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Without Words: Immerse Your Child Into The World of a Wordless Picture Book's Wondrous Artistic Adventures.

This article demonstrates how the wondrous world of wordless picture books introduces children to metacognitive reading strategies while promoting visual literacy, imagination, and language development, paving the way for later reading success.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Wordless picture books

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a few scattered books with beautiful illustrations on the cover.

Callout #7 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Why is Emotional Literacy The Key To Success For All Learners?

The author emphasises the importance of developing emotional literacy in children, particularly those who struggle, to help them find internal motivation and overcome adversity on their path to success.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Emotional literacy- recognising, managing, and communicating about emotions.

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a child with 5-6 masks or emoji faces above the child’s head depicting various emotions such as sadness, happiness, anger, disappointment, excitement, scared, etc.

Callout #8 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
ADHD, Executive Function Challenges, and Behavioural Challenges in the Classroom

This article discusses the social and emotional impact of ADHD and Executive Function challenges on learning, motivation, behaviour, and the family system and provides strategies for teachers and parents to support children with ADHD in the classroom.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Structured and predictable environment can help children with ADHD

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a clockface and add depictions for school day activities (such as breakfast, school drop, study time, lunch, recess, school pickup, play, homework time, after school sports/activities, dinner, and off to bed) all around the outside rim of clock.

Callout #9 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Rewriting Stories

The authors narrate how they embarked on a journey of structured word inquiry with struggling students, thereby leading them to understand the power of the English writing system, fostering connections in the meaning and structure of words, and empowering them to rewrite their own stories with their newfound confidence and independence.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Rewrite the stories of struggling students.

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a hand holding a pencil making changes to the half-completed sketch of a young adult.

Callout #10 (Deadline 5 March 2023)

Article Topic
Shared Book Reading: An Activity for Children of All Ages

The article discusses the various benefits of shared book reading to children with learning difficulties and provides a list of strategies parents can use to promote their child’s oral language and early literacy development during shared reading.

Illustration theme

Illustration Guidelines

Shared book reading time

You can feel free to create an illustration as per your creativity.

If you require a guideline, you can draw:

A picture of a child cuddling up with their parent/parents and reading from a book.

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Instructions How to Submit

This article discusses how homeschooling is a fast-growing educational sector in Australia and suggests practical strategies that homeschooling parents of children with learning difficulties can employ to maximize the impact of their homeschooling.

Instructions for CREATING illustrations

Instructions for SUBMITTING illustrations

  • If your child can create digital drawings, that would be preferred. If not, illustrations on paper will suffice. (If your child can create a digital illustration please let me know about the software/platform that they will be using to create the file).
  • Please create/draw/colour on an A4 sheet of WHITE paper.
  • Scan the image and send us a clear image of the illustration without shadows. Please do not take a photograph using flash on your mobile device).

Subscribe to the news callout newsletter to submit your illustrations with the below info:

  • Short bio- 25-50 words
  • Name of Child
  • Age
  • Location (City/Country)
  • Diagnosis/suspected diagnosis
  • 1-2 high-resolution headshots/ photos of the child

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