2016 Conference Program |

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Friday 19 August, 2016

Opening plenary

Welcome to Country by Sharon Gregory
Official Opening by the Hon. Peter Collier MLA, Minister for Education
Address by Allan Blagaich, Chief Executive Officer, School Curriculum and Standards Authority
Keynote by Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne: The long and winding road [that so far has not led to making language education normal and universal: why?]

Concurrent Session 1

Adriana Douglas: New P-10 Western Australian Curriculum for Languages
Bhavneet Singh & Maree Whiteley: Where is your village? Who is your tribe?
Natalie Pearce: What are imaginative texts and what do they have to do with teaching Languages?
Sonia Low: How to use a project and CCQ program to acquire evidences for the TRB full registration in a short time frame
Association of Spanish Teachers of WA Symposium

Concurrent Session 2

Helen Maddocks (Moderator): The future of community languages in WA (Panel Discussion)
Claire Leong: Plan for change
Lynne Rockliff: Cooperative learning strategies in the Languages classroom
Mariel Howard: Ensuring equity in Languages education – the why, what and how of differentiation
Association of Spanish Teachers of WA Symposium

Concurrent Session 3

Nathan Harvey: Assessment and a learning culture in Languages
Marinella Caruso: Language study at the University of Western Australia. Crossing the faculty borders
Helen Kuehs: Kitchen gardens – a hands-on approach to language learning
Steve Collis: Embedding choice and optionality in Learning Program Design
Nick Bell: Education Perfect – Languages in action & taking assessment online

Panel Discussion on the Conference theme “From Margins to Mainstream”.

Moderated by Moya McLauchlan. Participants include Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, Dr Lindy Norris, Sue Ellery, Shadow Minister for Education and Steve Collis.

Conference Dinner at Limones Restaurant (6pm)

Guest speaker: Gigi Thiele

Saturday 20 August, 2016

Opening Plenary

Noongar Storytelling
Inaugural Nick Norris Memorial Lecture on Leadership presented by Professor Gary Martin, CEO and Executive Director of AIM WA
Announcement of winner of inaugural MLTAWA Principal’s Award

Concurrent Session 4

Adriana Douglas: New P-10 Western Australian Curriculum for Languages (repeat session)
Priscilla Prince: 21st Century Education: guiding students to become self-regulated learners
Jeremy Snyder: TheyTube, so ITube, next up: YouTube
Jillian Symons: “Adomania” and the Australian Curriculum – a workshop for French teachers

Concurrent Session 5

Dr Dilhani Kapu Arachchilage: Transforming programs of Community Languages: a case for an effective system
Claire Leong: Plan for thinking
Dr Annamaria Paolino: Orff-Schulwerk as a pedagogical tool for the effective teaching of Italian to upper primary students in WA
Teachers of German WA Symposium

Concurrent Session 6

Carlos Franco: Developing bi-literacy capacity through our second language programs
Dr Annamaria Paolino: Ensuring the provision of Languages in Western Australian schools
A Smorgasbord of Ideas – 4 Lightning Talks (12 minutes each)

Elisabeth Rosinel: Use of ibooks in the Language classroom
Mariel Howard: Step into a CLIL classroom with a free online learning module
Sue Cooper: Recipe for no-stress unit planning
Linda Jones: (TBC)

Teachers of German WA Symposium

Closing plenary

Keynote by Steve Collis: Story of a kid, who…
Official closing Hon. Dr Mike Nahan MLA, Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Interests & Lyn Mitchell, Senior Policy Advisor for Multicultural Interests
MLTAWA President’s final address

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