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Saturday Full Day Professional
Development "Let’s
get critical: Looking at texts beyond their literal meanings”
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Presenter/s: |
Marianne Schubert
 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. |
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Abstract: |
This full day
workshop will be offered to help teachers develop a better
understanding of how to teach critical literacy through practical
classroom activities.
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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.
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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.
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Session 3: ‘Once
upon a Fairytale’ further develops the use of grammatical knowledge
to identify an author’s point of view in a text.
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Target Audience: |
Junior and Middle Years teachers, teacher-aides,
administrators, Principals |
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Date & Venue/s: |
This professional development opportunity will be
provided on two occasions across different venues.
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Saturday 20 February – Ipswich Grammar School
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Saturday 20 March
– Windaroo State School
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Program: |
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8:30 - 9:00am |
Registration and welcome tea/coffee |
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9:00 - 10:30am |
Session 1 |
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10:30 - 11:00am |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 - 12:30am |
Session 2 |
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12:30 - 1:00pm |
Lunch |
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1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Session 3 |
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Finish |
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Cost: |
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ALEA Member ............ |
$180 (individual or institutional) |
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Non-member
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$265
(includes 12 month ALEA basic individual
membership) |
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Full time student ALEA member .................... |
$90 |
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Full time
student Non-member ................... |
$130
(includes 12 month ALEA basic student membership) |
Participant numbers are limited to 30 at each event |
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Catering: |
Morning tea and lunch will be provided. Please make a
note of dietary requirements and we will endeavour to cater
appropriately. |
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Saturday Full Day Professional
Development
"Assessment for learning - let's get practical “
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Sat 27 February at Our Lady of
the Way Catholic School, Petrie (to be confirmed)
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Sat 27 March at Brisbane Grammar
School
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Presenter/s: |
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! |
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Abstract: |
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. |
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Target Audience: |
Middle and Senior Years teachers in any KLA,
teacher-aides, administrators, Principals |
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Date & Venue/s: |
This professional development opportunity will be provided on two
occasions across different venues.
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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.
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Program: |
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8:30 - 9:00am |
Registration and welcome tea/coffee |
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9:00 - 10:30am |
Session 1 |
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10:30 - 11:00am |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 - 12:30am |
Session 2 |
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12:30 - 1:00pm |
Lunch |
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1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Session 3 |
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Finish |
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Cost: |
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ALEA Member .......... |
$180 (individual or institutional) |
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Non-member
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$265
(includes 12 month ALEA basic individual
membership) |
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Full time student ALEA member .................... |
$90 |
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Full time
student Non-member ................ |
$130
(includes 12 month ALEA basic student membership) |
Participant numbers are limited to 30 at each event |
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Catering: |
Morning tea and
lunch will be provided. Please make a note of dietary requirements
and we will endeavour to cater appropriately. |
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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
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Saturday 6 March
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Saturday 20 March
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Saturday 17 April
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Saturday 1 May
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attend all four workshops) |
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Presenter/s: |
Anita Macknish &
David Macknish
 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.
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A NAPLAN must!
Students will learn of the many intricacies and conventions necessary
to excel in nationally assessed writing tasks.
Do you have students who can write but their narrative work seems to
lack direction, is dull, uninteresting and is either far too brief or
waffles on for pages without any interesting storyline development?
All students have significant experience reading and listening to
professionally published narratives but often lack the experience and
understanding to develop their own ideas into worthwhile texts which
they are proud to share with their peers.
While reading forms the basis of all literacy skills across the
curriculum, the writing capabilities of students often take some time
to develop. By investigating the nature and complexities of the
written language used in narratives, students will participate in a
series of small group practical workshops designed to increase their
knowledge and abilities to produce more detailed and complex writing
within the narrative genre. A series of four sequential workshops will
enable students to build progressively upon their learned knowledge
and skills with time for practise and development of work samples
between each workshop. |
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Target Audience: |
Students in Years 4 to 7
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Date & Venue/s: |
These 4 x 90min
workshops will be held across four separate afternoons at
Our Lady of the
Sacred Heart Catholic School, Darra
- Saturday 6
March
- Saturday 20
March
- Saturday 17
April
- Saturday 1 May
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Cost: |
$160 for the course of four x 90-minute
workshops. |
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Catering: |
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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