Event Calendar 2010

SEMESTER ONE  2010

SEMESTER TWO  2010

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• Meanjin is hosting a National Literacy & Numeracy Week Brunch
• The theme is "LEARNING FOR LIVING"
• Our brunch is called "ALIVE WITH CHILDREN'S LITERATURE"

• Early Years, Primary & Middle Years Teachers of Literature

Counts for 2.5 hours PD. QTC Standard 10

• 8.30 am Registration and welcome tea and coffee
• 8.45 am Welcome and presentation of NLNW awards
• 9.00 am Professor Kerry Mallan's keynote
• 9.30 am Brunch and sharing* (each participant is asked to bring along a piece of children's literature that they've used in their classroom to share with participants at their table. The purpose is to provide the opportunity to preview a selection of texts)
• 10.30 am Joy Lawn's keynote
• 11.00 am Finish

12 Annerley Rd
Woolloongabba
Brisbane Q4102
Phone: 07 3391 2911

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Professor Kerry Mallan (QUT)
The Book is [Not] Dead …. It’s Waiting Online

Abstract: This presentation demonstrates how seemingly ‘dead’ books are being given a new lease of life through a digitization project entitled Children’s Literature Digital Resources (CLDR). The CLDR project is an innovative endeavour that is working towards a comprehensive and searchable collection of early Australian children’s literature and contemporary literary criticism. On completion, the project will provide a robust information source that will greatly enhance engagement by researchers, schools and communities in eResearch, teaching, and learning. The project has received significant funding by both the ARC LIEF program and QUT for the past three years and is part of the activities supported by AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au). AustLit is the leading research and information facility for many fields of Australian literary and narrative studies, print culture history, and Indigenous Australian writing and storytelling.

Biography: Kerry Mallan is a Professor in Faculty of Education at QUT. Her research and publications are primarily in literature and film for children and youth. Her most recent sole authored book is Gender Dilemmas in Children’s Fiction (2009) published by Palgrave Macmillan. Her forthcoming book is Theorising Children’s Literature and Film, co-edited with Clare Bradford.

 

Joy Lawn (Children's Book Council)

Joy's topic is ‘Books Worth Their Spine’: best new and recent literature for children and young adults. Literature for children who are beginning school through to the middle years of secondary school will be shared.

Biography: Joy is a respected speaker and reviewer of children’s and young adult literature. She has an MA in Children’s Literature and Literacy and is the children’s literature consultant at Coaldrake’s Bookshop. Formerly a teacher, Joy has wide experience in presenting at national and state conferences and advising teachers, teacher librarians, academics, parents and others on children’s and young adult literature. Joy reads children’s literature avidly, reviews and writes for a range of specialist journals, including Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Magpies, Reading Time (CBCA), Viewpoint (University of Melbourne), and Practically Primary (ALEA), and writes teacher notes for professional organisations such as Curriculum Corporation.

Joy is the current Qld judge for the Children’s Book Council of Australia, is the chair of the judging panel for the children’s literature category of the Qld Premier’s Literary Awards and her annual book of teacher notes Inside the Shortlist, published by CBCA(Qld), is distributed nationally. Fascinated by ideas and images and how authors and illustrators express these with truth and originality, Joy’s vision is to see CYA literature, including quality graphic novels, further recognised in the wider community.
 

• ALEA member $35
• ALEA non-member $50
• Uni student ALEA member $20
• Uni student non-member $50
  (includes 12 month basic membership valued at $40)

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Meanjin will be offering ten scholarships (free attendance) this year for young writers who fulfil the writing requirements but who would be unable to attend because of financial difficulties.  If schools have any students who are outstanding writers and who would be unable to apply due to their economic situation, please feel free to submit an application and writing samples for consideration. Such applications need to be signed by your school’s principal.

Application closing date: Friday 10 September 2010

 Annual General Meeting 2010

The Annual General Meeting for the Brisbane Meanjin Local Council of ALEA will be held on Wednesday 26 May at the Indooroopilly Bowls Club from 5pm. (Corner of Allwood St and Clarence Road, Indooroopilly.)

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Please register your intention to attend using the online form below.

The schedule for the evening is as follows:

• 5.00-5.30pm Pre-meeting drinks and nibbles (provided by Meanjin)

• 5.30-6.30pm AGM

• 6.30-7.00pm Short regular meeting (if required)

• 7.00pm Dinner

AGM Agenda

Please note that dinner and drinks (from 5.30pm onwards) are on a user-pays basis. The cost of the dinner will be up to approximately $30.

With the Local Council burgeoning again beyond 300 members, it is important to ensure that voices from all sectors and areas within the catchment are heard. If you are keen to become more involved in the behind-the-scenes operations and planning of ALEA literacy professional development and other activities, you are more than welcome to attend and nominate to become a regular member of the executive group.

Nomination Form

All positions on the Meanjin Committee are declared vacant at the AGM. Nominations are called for the following positions on the Meanjin Committee for 2010-2011

·             President
·             Vice-President
·             Secretary
·             Treasurer
·             Other member 

Candidates must hold current membership of the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association.

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Kay is currently a Principal Project Officer (English & Literacy) with Education Queensland. During her career, Kay has worked as A/HOD (Middle Schooling) at Forest Lake State High School, English Syllabus Implementation Officer, Education Adviser (Literacy) and classroom teacher at all levels from Year 1 to Year 12. Kay is vice-president of Meanjin and a member of the management committee of The English Teachers’ Association of Queensland.

The course explores the notion of genre (or types of texts) which occur within specific subject areas. Teachers are provided with opportunities to develop an understanding of how language is organised and how it works to do the things we want it to do.

Because this is practical course, it applies to the work of all teachers, particularly those in the middle years. It is valuable to those leading teaching and learning, and for those responsible for curriculum development.

Royal on the Park
152 Alice Street
Brisbane Q4000
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Course Modules:

Nine three hour modules focus on:

• Context: cultural and situational
• Cohesion: how to make a text hang together well
• Grammar: the patterns of words that express the content, that are shaped by the people involved and shaped by the mode of delivery and the media used

Course Outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

• understand how language and context are related so that they can teach explicitly the language choices appropriate for different purposes and context
• identify the typical features of different genres so that they can teach the full range of genres relevant to the various learning areas
• identify and understand the language resources needed to make texts informative, engaging, cohesive and coherent
• develop classroom activities which develop explicitly the language skills necessary for students to be successful learners
• identify and understand the linguistic criteria for assessing students’ written and spoken texts
• understand how the development of language can also be seen as the development of learning
• understand how to use a range of linguistic resources to inform critical perspectives on texts

Teachers will be better able to support students to develop skills to:

• use language knowledgeably: knowing the choices available in the English Language
• use language appropriately: for given contexts, both written and spoken
• use language effectively: to successfully present their texts
• use language skills to critically analyse texts

• participant workbook (valued at $175)
• complimentary car parking on-site
   

Each day

• Morning and afternoon tea
• Walnut Restaurant Lunch Buffet

Saturday Full Day Professional Development

"Let’s get critical: Looking at texts beyond their literal meanings”

• Sat 20 Feb at Ipswich Grammar School

• Sat 20 March at Windaroo State School

Marianne is currently working with the QSA NAPLAN team. She recently worked for Education Queensland as a Regional Literacy Manager in Greater Brisbane. One of her projects this year is to work with selected schools to improve student reading comprehension. Marianne has extensive primary classroom experience and has presented at local, state and national conferences and has conducted numerous professional development activities.

• Session 1: ‘Let’s Get Critical’ will explore the language resources needed to infer and evaluate meanings in a range of texts.  This workshop will establish an introduction to following workshops.
• Session  2: “Who are you really?’ will extend the participants' understanding of how to use the language choices in texts as a meaning making tool for reading and writing through exploration of biography.
• Session  3: ‘Once upon a Fairytale’ further develops the use of grammatical knowledge to identify an author’s point of view in a text.

Junior and Middle Years teachers, teacher-aides, administrators, Principals

This professional development opportunity will be provided on two occasions across different venues.

• Saturday 20 February – Ipswich Grammar School
• Saturday 20 March – Windaroo State School

Morning tea and lunch will be provided.  Please make a note of dietary requirements and we will endeavour to cater appropriately. 

Saturday Full Day Professional Development

"Assessment for learning - let's get practical “

• Sat 27 February at Our Lady of the Way Catholic School, Petrie (to be confirmed)

• Sat 27 March at Brisbane Grammar School

Pat Hipwell

Pat is an independent literacy consultant for her own company, logonliteracy. Since starting a consultancy business five years ago, Pat has provided professional development to schools that are developing whole school approaches to literacy. She specialises in translating the mantra of ‘We’re all teachers of literacy’ into classroom practices in ALL KLAs. She has particular interest in the literacy demands of school based assessment in Queensland and National Testing.  All Pat’s workshops are practical and provide teachers with a range of strategies that can be implemented the next day!

All assessment makes significant demands on students’ literacies. Often the literacy demands are hidden from view, the silent assessors, or there is a mismatch between the literacy demands of the assessment and the literacy skills of the students. This prevents the task from being ‘do-able’. If assessment is to promote learning then students must be set up to succeed with the task.

This workshop will show teachers from all KLAs how to embed the literacies of assessment into unit plans and provide a range of practical ideas to support the teaching of these literacies. In addition Pat will make suggestions about assessment task design for all KLAs including the use of graphic organisers to support the preparation of the student response.

Middle and Senior Years teachers in any KLA, teacher-aides, administrators, Principals

This professional development opportunity will be provided on two occasions across different venues.

• Saturday 27 February 2010    - Our Lady of the Way Catholic School,  38 Armstrong Street, Petrie.
  Important Notice
  Saturday 27 February event is postponed due to presenter illness/injury.
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• Saturday 27 March 2010    - Brisbane Grammar School
  70 Gregory Terrace, Brisbane.
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The workshop will be be conducted in the main Middle School complex which is Building 14.

Parking will be available in the area marked 33 on the map – the pick up and drop off zone outside the Middle School. There is also parking at the back of the school (which is area 42) but it would mean walking through the campus to the other side.

Saturday Afternoon Workshops for Students (3:00PM - 4:30PM)

“Improving Writing of Narratives – workshops for middle years students “ 

at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic School, Darra

• Saturday 6 March

• Saturday 20 March

• Saturday 17 April

• Saturday 1 May

(Students attend all four workshops)

Anita Macknish is an experienced teacher across all year levels, having specialised over the last decade with middle years students. An accomplished teacher of writing, she has proven the capacity to develop hesitant writers into enthusiastic and prosperous authors. Their keenness to succeed is mirrored by their detailed knowledge of the components required to enhance their script. Anita currently teaches a Year 6/7 multi-age class at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic School, Darra.

David Macknish is the current President of the Brisbane Meanjin Local Council of ALEA, having held the position for the last three years following a period of two years as Secretary. He is the Head of Junior School at Ipswich Grammar School and holds a keen interest in the complexities of language. Currently, he is driving reform in his school within literacy through the application of the essentials of functional grammar in the analysis and synthesis of written language.
 

Students in Years 4 to 7

• Saturday 6 March
• Saturday 20 March
• Saturday 17 April
• Saturday 1 May

A light afternoon tea will be provided. Please notify us in advance of any special dietary considerations and we will endeavour to cater appropriately. 

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