Symposium 3

Let's Talk About Numeracy: Bringing numeracy and language together in multilingual classrooms

Monday, 11 April 2016 • 9.00 am - 4.00 pm • Novotel Hotel • after the conference

Registrations open 8.15 am

Subject to change without notice

Convenor: Cheryl Wiltshire, WAALC

In this symposia, Beth Marr will lead a number of presenters from different sectors to explore the issues that surrounds the need to teach people to be able to talk about their mathematical and numeracy knowledge and to use talk to build this knowledge.

Participants are invited to develop the program through a pre-symposium survey so make sure you register early so you can contribute to this process.

Sessions may focus on:

principles that underpin good practice in improving the connection between Numeracy and English language development and literacy skills acquisition
how assessment practices support or disrupt good practice
adaptions needed for different cultural contexts.

Confirmed guest speakers include: Beth Marr, Di Tomazos and Dave Tout

This conference is supported by

Central Institute of Technology

The following exhibitors welcome you to the Diversity conference

2016 ACAL - ACTA Conference 'DIVERSITY: exchanging ways of being'
presented by the Australian Council for Adult Literacy and the Australian Council of TESOL Associations,
in association with local Western Australian hosts, the Western Australian Adult Literacy Council and Westralian Association for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.