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
Trade Displays (available both days):
- Education Perfect
- The Language Centre
- GET Educational Tours
- Languagenut
- LOTE Teaching Aids
- Intext
Principal Sponsor
Other Sponsors
Information coming soon
Disclaimer
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