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Joining the Dots Conference 7 December 2018 Program

8.30 Registration 9.00  Welcome & introduction (Room: Harris) Acknowledge of country Welcome from the NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council Conference overview 9.20  Plenary speaker -  Dr Julie Choi (Room: Harris) Immigrant and refugee women’s resourcefulness in English language classrooms: emerging possibilities through plurilingualism Discussant: Polly Craig 10.05 Plenary speaker  -  Phil Kane (Room: Harris) Researching workplace numeracy as a social practice - case studies from New Zealand Discussant: Jill Finch 10.40 Morning tea 11.10 Panel Damian Oliver Stewart Burkitt Warren Poole ) Jill Biddington (Room: Harris)           Strengthening the role of ABE practitioners for learners, their families and their communities 12.00 Lunch  Roundtables 1    (Room: Harris) Roundtables and paper 2   (Room: Jones) 1.00-1.40 ROUNDTABLE 1.1  TAFE Outreach sewing basics and num...
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Workshop- Teaching and learning more than Foundation Skills - 28th June 2018

Teaching and learning more than foundation skills Workshop 5.30-6.30, Thursday, 28th June 2018 Room Cb10.5.580, Building 10, UTS,  Jones St, Ultimo In this workshop, participants will consider both the imperative for, and possibilities of,  teaching more than ‘foundation skills’ to our adult literacy and numeracy learners. Workshop  facilitators  Pam Osmond, Janet Dyne and Keiko Yasukawa will present some stimulus ideas  for rich educational  experiences which, where necessary, can be ‘reverse engineered’ to  match training package/  curriculum outcomes. Working from these ideas, participants will  work together to outline teaching  and learning ideas and activities that address skills and  knowledge that matter for their adult learners. Pam Osmond  is a long-term adult literacy/ numeracy teacher, resource developer,  researcher and  teacher educator Janet Dyne  is an adult literacy, numeracy  and ...
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2018 AGM Thursday 28 June

The NSWALNC will hold its Annual General Meeting at 6.30 pm on 28 June 2018. The AGM will be held in Room Cb10.5.580, Building 10, Jones St, University of Technology, Sydney. All Welcome
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2018 Conference Date - Friday 7 December

The 2018 NSWALNC Conference will be held on Friday 7 December. Put it in your diary. Registrations will open in August.
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Seminar - 5.30, Tues 8 May 2018 - Erik Jacobsen's article "Workforce Development Rhetoric and the Realities of 21C Capitalism"

       The Council has had feedback from several members that they are finding it increasingly difficult to stay current with, and access scholarly research that could inform our practice. This year, we plan to host at least two seminars where colleagues in the field can read and discuss some recent research publications together. A member of the Council Committee will lead the discussion.        Our first such seminar will focus on a 2016 paper written by the Erik Jacobson, an ABE researcher in the USA:  ‘Workforce Development Rhetoric and the Realities of 21st Century Capitalism’ . In his paper, Jacobson calls upon those in the field of adult basic education to question some of the premises upon which many adult literacy and numeracy programs, particularly for long-term unemployed people, are based. He then argues that ‘students and teachers in adult education should focus on developing structural analyses of the situation [where large numb...
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Creating Spaces for Learning and Teaching in ABE Conference 2017 Registration

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NSWALNC Member Registration (Register from 11 Nov) ( GST exempt) $150 Non-Member Registration (Register from 11 Nov) ( GST exempt) $200 NSWALNC Member Concession Registration (F/T Student, Unemployed) ( GST exempt) $50 Non-Member Concession Registration (F/T Student, Unemployed) ( GST exempt) $80 Online at TryBooking https://www.trybooking.com/QROW Bank Transfer ( NSWALNC’s BSB is: 633-000 and its Acc No is 155977390)      Cheque (Cheques should be made payable to “NSW Adult Literacy and Numeracy Council Inc”.)
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