Literacy: What works and why? Tuesday, June 26, 2018 The University of NSW
Dr David Hastie
Senior Research Fellow, The King’s School Institute, The King’s School, Honorary Associate Professor, Alphacrucis University College.
This conference was a total hit in 2016: 2018 looks like being a great event. I am on the executive organising committee, share the good news!!
https://www.regodirect.com.au/literacywhatworksandwhy2018/
Keynote speakers
? Ian Wilkinson, Professor, Teaching and Learning, OHIO State University: Quality Talk about Text: Research-Based Practices for Promoting High-Level Comprehension
? Jann Farmer-Hailey, Consultant, Literacy Leadership: Professional Learning Conversations To Grow Student Literacy
? Janet Gaffney, Professor, Educational Psychology – Literacy. Director, Marie Clay Research Centre, Auckland University: A Systems Approach To Literacy Intervention: An Insider’s Research Story
Electives include
- Instructional leaders make a difference. How to get change, Jan Farmer-Hailey
- Dialogic teaching for argument literacy: Talk, text, and tools, Prof Ian Wilkinson
- Designer sentences:A hands-on approach for teaching sentence structure. Helen Pearson, UNSW
- Responding to children: Useful help, Prof Janet Gaffney
- Writing in the literacy program TBA
- Assessing phonics: How to fit teaching to the child. Assoc Prof Robyn Cox, ACU
- Indigenous Education: Connecting communities. TBA
- Early reading assessment: Building on what we know and do. Rachel Chaston SCS
- Writing Matters: Effective practices for EALD students Helen West SCS
- Stories from Schools with creative and effective programs TBA
Purposes: To draw together leaders in literacy research and practice in order to,
- disseminate current knowledge on innovative and research-based literacy teaching
- give opportunity to evaluate diverse perspectives in literacy education including early intervention, assessment, comprehension.
- provide examples of innovative and effective practice,
- promote the creation and extension of cross institutional professional networks in the field of literacy teaching and research.
Target Audience: Primary teachers, Reading Recovery teachers and tutors, Heads of schools, Instructional Leaders, Support Teachers Learning Assistance, System literacy personnel, middle school teachers, education students, tertiary lecturers, researchers.
NESA Accreditation will be available
Registration: By Friday June 8, 2018 Cost: $ 280 (Full time students $160)
Contacts: Associate Professor Alan Watson AM 0422 225 556 [email protected], Emeritus Professor Alan Rice AM, 0423 453 800 [email protected]
https://www.regodirect.com.au/literacywhatworksandwhy2018/