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Workshop times
Register 8.30 am
Workshop 9.00 am
Morning Tea 10.30 am
Workshop 11.00 am
Lunch 12.00
Workshop 12.45 pm
WAALC AGM 3.15 pm

Herb Graham Recreation Centre

Come and meet the ACAL
president – Geri PanciniTuesday 6th July 2010

Registration opens 8.30 am

Sessions commence 9.00 am

The Art of Sound – teaching sounds to adults
and

Ten Tips for Teaching after 30 years' experience
or

Maximise Your Learning Opportunities

Herb Graham Recreation Centre Centacare Employment and Training 17 Chesterfield Road Mirrabooka WA

Session details

The Art of Sound – teaching sounds to adults

Presenter Helena Zielinska

Helena Zielinska has spent many years working with sound groups and methods of teaching these to adults.
Come along for a hands-on experience where you will develop strategies that you can use immediately with adults and adolescents needing to learn more about the phonemic basis of the English language. It's a method that can be used in continuous enrolment learning environments and utilises the full creative potential of students. The match of sound to image is something student groups arrive at through the process.
Hint: You will be mucking around with clay and colour so don’t wear your best suit!

Ten tips after 30 years

Presenter Geri Pancini (ACAL President)

Geri has been a literacy and ESL teacher and a lecturer in Adult Education and Teacher Education over her many years. She has taught in schools, TAFE, Universities and in the Community Sector. Geri is currently a Research Fellow with the Work-based Education Research Centre (WERC) at Victoria University in Melbourne. Geri is the President of the Australian Council for Adult Literacy.
In this session Geri will offer some advice and practical strategies from her many years as a literacy teacher and a teacher educator. The focus will be on some of the basics of preparing, organising and interacting in the role of teacher with small or large groups of students. She will discuss why it is that some practices, techniques or strategies work with some groups but not others and the place of personal refection as part of ‘doing what we do better’. The conversation will be set against the backdrop of adult learning principles, learner centred approaches to teaching and learning, and the role of formal and informal assessment for both the teacher and the learner.

Maximise Your Learning Opportunities

Presenter Mally Hilton

Mally Hilton is one of the writers of Maximise Your Learning Opportunities (MYLO), a set of highly structured and well organised materials designed for older children and adults. The materials cover reading and writing at all levels from the basics through to essay writing. They can be accessed as a computer based program, as print based resources or as a combination of both.
Mally will present an extended workshop as a follow up to the shorter session she presented at the 2008 WAALC conference. This is a chance to get to grips with the breadth of the resource Mally has produced.
Topics will include: