Exchanging ways of being
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A1 Strengthening the N in LLN - why addressing numeracy skills is crucial
Dave Tout, ACER
This presentation will highlight a number of critical issues related to maths and numeracy in work and the implications for education and workplaces. What are the challenges we face in improving the ability of workers and learners to understand, use and apply maths in their lives, and how might we better address this in our teaching and training practices? Based on knowledge and research about youth and adults’ skills in numeracy, about maths and numeracy at work and about the teaching and learning of maths and numeracy, this presentation will argue why it is essential to explicitly address the numeracy competence of both young people and adults and why strengthening the N in LLN should be given much higher priority. The session will also illustrate and discuss a number of different issues that need to be addressed regarding teaching numeracy.
Dave is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading adult numeracy personnel, and has worked in schools, TAFEs, ACE, university, AMES and workplaces, with over 30 years experience in the VET sector. He has wide experience at a state, national and international level in research, curriculum, assessment and materials development. Dave had major responsibility for the numeracy domain of the ACSF. He was a member of the numeracy expert group responsible for the numeracy component of the international ALLS survey and also for PIAAC, and had a major role in the development of mathematical literacy in PISA 2012.
A2 Cross-Cultural Sustainability and Teaching and Learning for EALD Learners
Tracy Marr, Anne Velasquez, Julie Houghton from Lynwood Senior High School Intensive English Centre
The workshop will showcase and provide professional learning, ideas and strategies around an integrated curriculum based on the Australian (and WA)Curriculum's school priority on Sustainability. The focus will be on meeting the learning needs of limited schooling and refugee learners new to Australia. The action research project which we have called SATSI - Sustainability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture is part of the AuSSI Schools Initiative, a national program for all schools. We were attracted to this project on two levels, from a school leadership perspective we needed to find a way to integrate the curriculum while providing relevance to both staff and students. For students we could see many parallels between ATSI culture and the cultures of many of our students. Sustainable practices are a common universal theme we could all share.
Tracy Marr - Project leader and a secondary EALD teacher. Tracy has been teaching across different education settings, special education, primary schools and mainstream secondary school and is currently teaching as an EALD teacher with both limited schooling students and ATAR bound EALD students. Julie Houghton - is a secondary EALD Science/English specialist who currently teaches a class of beginner limited schooling students across all subject areas. Anne Velasquez is EALD Society and Environment Specialist/English teacher who is currently teaching a beginner Intensive English class in a ll subject areas.She has an interest in functional grammar
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