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QUEENSLAND COUNCIL FOR ADULT LITERACY 2011 STATE CONFERENCE Kenmore Library Kenmore Village Shopping Centre, Brookfield Road KENMORE QLD 4069
1pm – 5 pm, 4 November 9am – 4 pm, 5 November
Queensland Council for Adult Literacy Email: [email protected] Web: www.qcal.org.au
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QCAL 2011 STATE CONFERENCE
Welcome Contents We have not had a special policy commitment to support adult language, literacy and numeracy Welcome from the Australian Government since the 1990s, although there has been continual funding over General Information that time for programs for the unemployed, 3 migrants and workers. Some of us perceive the 1990s and the early 2000s as a halcyon period Venue 3 when financial support was available for research, provision and resources. We hope that the Keynote Speakers 4 implementation of the new National Foundation Skills Strategy for adults together with the Conference program 5-7 Employability Skills and Attributes Framework, will result in a similarly productive output. Presenters’ Abstracts 7-10
To find out more about these developments and Presenters’ Biographies 11- 13 help us consider what it means for programs in Queensland we have invited Cathy Malone from the Department of Education & Training to provide an overview, and to consider how a national strategy might be put into practice, the following keynote speakers have also been invited:
Dr Judy Hunter, Senior Lecturer and Co- ordinator of ALNE diploma programs in the Arts and Language Education Department at the University of Waikato, New Zealand Annette Woods, Queensland University of Technology and Dr Carol Christensen, University of
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I hope you find the conference stimulating and an opportunity to develop new literacy networks.
Ann Kelly, President, QCAL
General Information Venue
3 Registration and Information Desk Kenmore Library Meeting Room 3 Friday 4th November, 12.00 – 5.00pm Saturday 5th November, 8.30am – 5.00pm
Telephone Directory Registration Desk: 0424 033 517 Kenmore Library: 07 3407 0258 Taxi: 13 19 24
Travel Car to Kemore Village Shopping Centre is approx 10 kms from the city along Moggill Road (orange) to roundabout with Brookfield Road.(yellow). Follow signs into the Kenmore Village Shopping Centre Brisbane City Council Branch Library and turn left (see map). Kenmore Village Shopping Centre 9 Brookfield Road Bus from Myer Centre, Queen St. bus station: Kenmore Qld 4069 425 or 430 from Stop B4; 451 or 460 from B1 Phone: 07 3407 0258 Change at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, Interchange A: Bus nos: 430, 445, 444. Map (See conference website for more information).
Accommodation Forest Lodge Apartments, Indooroopilly http://www.forestlodge1.com.au/
Chaseley Apartments, Milton http://www.chasely.com.au/
Milton Motel Apartments http://www.milton-motel.com.au/
Conference dinner 6.00pm Local Bean Cafe, 2060 Moggill Road, Kenmore
Name Badges Each conference delegate will be issued with a name badge on registration, which must be worn at all times. It is your official pass to conference sessions, displays, morning & afternoon teas and lunches. Also required for those attending the conference dinner. Speaker Presentations Mobile Phones Speakers are requested to bring their Please ensure that all mobile phones are turned off presentations on USB drives to the registration during all Conference Sessions. desk 2 hours before their presentation. Keynote Speakers
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Judy Hunter is Senior Lecturer and Co-ordinator of ALNE diploma programs in the Arts and Language Education Department at the University of Waikato. She teaches literacy and diversity, contexts of literacy, and literacy in the workplace and co-teaches family and community literacy. Her research looks at how people use and understand literacy in their lives. She has written and presented on language and literacy practices in workplace, tertiary and school settings. Currently she is co-director of the Health Literacy Project.
Dr Annette Woods
Annette Woods researches and teaches literacy at QUT. Her current research includes an investigation of teachers’ enactment of syllabus in the classroom and an investigation of the links between digital literacy and improved outcomes in print literacy in low SES and culturally diverse schools.
Dr Carol Christensen
Dr Christensen is an internationally recognised researcher in the areas of human learning and literacy. As a researcher she has published extensively in the areas of learning disabilities, and literacy. In 2000 she began working with secondary schools to implement Whole School Literacy Programs. Currently over 70,000 students have participated in schools running these programs. The aim of these programs is to have all students on grade-level in reading comprehension within three years. As an extension of her work with senior students, in 2011 Dr Christensen will be working with Burdekin Shire libraries to develop a community-based approach to developing reading skills for both children and adults.
5 QCAL 2011 ANNUAL STATE CONFERENCE
4-5 NOVEMBER 2011
Strategising nationally: Practising locally
Conference Program
Day 1 – Friday 4th November 2011
12.00 - 1.00 Registration Meeting Coffee and food available in shopping centre Room 3 1.00 – 2.00 Welcome: Ann Kelly, President, Queensland Council for Adult Literacy Setting the Scene: A QCAL Perspective Meeting Room 3 Conference Opening: Representative of the Employment and Indigenous Initiatives unit within the Employment and Economic Development silo of DEEDI. 2.00 – 3.00 Keynote Address: Dr Judy Hunter, Senior Lecturer, and Co-ordinator of ALNE diploma Meeting programs in the Arts and Language Education Department University of Waikato, NZ Room 3 “This isn’t written for people like us”: Reading and writing for people 3.00 – 3.30 Afternoon Tea Meeting Feel free to browse the displays of resources Room 3 3.30 – 5.00 Panel: Strategising nationally: Practising locally Meeting Chris Sayer: Senior Project Officer, Social Inclusion, State Library of Queensland Room 3 Libraries for Literacy – every day, every way Cathy Malone: Principal Planning Officer, Department of Education & Training National Foundation Skills Strategy – a working group perspective
Followed by groups discussions re implications of government policies and strategies for different/community providers. How can QCAL help?
6.00pm Dinner: Local Bean Cafe, 2060 Moggill Road, Kenmore http://www.thelocalbean.com.au/ Please complete the Session Evaluations and deposit in box on Registration Table (Friday attendees only).
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8.45 – 9.15 Registration Meeting Room 3 9.15 – 9.30 Welcome: Ann Kelly, President, Queensland Council for Adult Literacy. Meeting Room 3
9.30 – 10.30 Keynote Address: Annette Woods, Queensland University of Technology Thinking about literacy for today's contexts Meeting Room 3 10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea Meeting Feel free to browse the displays of resources Room 3 11.00 – 11.30 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 1 Viv Poon Hazel Davidson Gail Hager Mothers’ and babies’ Producing reading texts Developing an assessment tool literacy class for very low level using the ACSF students 11.35 – 12.25 Setting up for lunch 12.25 – 1.15 Lunch Meeting Feel free to browse the displays of resources Room 3 1.15 – 2.15 Keynote Address: Dr Carol Christensen, Consultant Meeting Developing Community-Based Literacy Through Libraries: The Burdekin Project Room 3 2.20 – 3.00 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 1 Yolande Entsch Margaret Wagstaff Kristy Smith & Using fun interactive Working with the Core Loretta Smith programs and a community Skills for Employment i-Padology - Show, Share and development approach in and Training units play making a difference in the lives of people experiencing disadvantage. 3.00 – 3.40 Bev Gosling Aiming High in Literacy and Numeracy:
3.40 – 3.55 Afternoon tea Meeting Room Feel free to browse the displays of resources 3 4.00 Conference close Meeting Room Please complete the Session Evaluations and deposit in box on Registration Table
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Abstracts – Day 1: Friday
Presenter information is on pages 11-13
1.15 Meeting Welcome: Ann Kelly, QCAL President Room 3 Setting the Scene: A QCAL Perspective Conference Opening: Representative of Employment and Indigenous Initiatives —Employment and Economic Development (DEEDI). An overview of the role that Queensland’s labour market programs play in meeting a range of Queensland government economic and social goals will be provided. Also outlined will be the importance of literacy and numeracy to individuals looking to enter or re-enter the workforce. 2.00 Meeting Keynote Address: Dr Judy Hunter: Room 3 “This isn’t written for people like us.” Reading and writing for people. We can celebrate the fact that policy makers’ have begun to focus on adult literacy learning, for the field has been marginalised for too long. From the results of international literacy surveys, countries like New Zealand realised for the first time that many adults were struggling with literacy and began to develop national policy and strategies as a result. At the same time, literacy has been seen as the key to economic prosperity; learning is taken to be the development of measurable skills, and learners are represented as employment potential. Literacy research, however, suggests alternative ways of seeing literacy, and has shown that much more is involved in how people learn, use and make sense of reading and writing in their lives. I will talk about ways that this research can contribute to literacy teachers’ work with their learners.
3.15 Meeting Address: Chris Sayer: Room 3 Libraries for Literacy – every day, every way This presentation will discuss the State Library’s recently launched literacy framework, ‘Libraries for literacy – every day, every way: 2011-2014’. It will pose the question, Why a literacy framework? and highlight some of the key features of the framework. It will also cover some of the State Library’s key literacy initiatives for 2011/12 including the 2012 National Year of Reading.
Cathy Malone: National Foundation Skills Strategy – a working group perspective In 2010, the Commonwealth Government announced that it would work with state and territory governments to develop an over-arching National Foundation Skills Strategy for adult Australians. It will bring a national focus to improving the foundation skills of Australian adults and open up discussion about priority areas for action over the next 10 years. To develop the strategy, a Foundation Skills Working Group was established late in 2010. The Working Group comprises of representatives from the Commonwealth Government and all state and territory
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This presentation will discuss the strategy’s development that has been undertaken by the Foundation Skills Working Group. It will provide information about the outcomes of the national consultations and give an overview of the next steps for implementation of the National Foundation Skills Strategy.
Abstracts – Day 2: Saturday
Presenter information is on pages 11-13
1.15 Meeting Welcome: Ann Kelly, QCAL President Room 3 9.30 Meeting Keynote Address: Annette Woods: Room 3 Thinking about literacy for today's contexts The literacy demands of everyday life continue to shift, and being able to engage with a variety of texts for a full range of purposes is more important than ever before. In such a context it is unlikely that any one approach to teaching and learning literacy will provide a solution for those who have difficulties learning to be literate. This presentation will investigate what it means to take a balanced approach to understanding literacy and challenge participants to think differently about old solutions for new problems. 11.00 Meeting Viv Poon: Presentation Room 3 Program for mothers and babies This session will focus on an AMEP community education venture involving a maximum of twelve recent immigrant mothers with young children jointly conducted by the Multicultural Development Association and TAFE Language and Literacy Services. The program serves as a bridge to institutionalised learning for these participants. Meeting Hazel Davidson: Workshop Room 2 Producing reading texts for very low level students In this workshop Hazel will start by outlining the principles and techniques she uses when writing reading texts for low level students. Then participants will divide into groups to work on "translating" one of a selection of passages into a form which is more readily accessible to their students. Sample passages will be drawn from the recent Federal Government booklet on the proposed Carbon Tax. Meeting Gail Hagar: Workshop Room 1 Developing an assessment tool using the ACSF The ACSF is a useful tool for ascertaining a learner’s level of proficiency in Literacy and Numeracy. This workshop is the second one in a series and will offer practical strategies for developing your own assessment tool. Participants will need to bring the following: - a copy of the ACSF - an outline of a relevant course / unit - a profile of a typical learner in their organisation / course / unit During the workshop, participants will be shown how to develop an assessment tool and will be given the opportunity to develop (partial or complete) an
9 assessment tool for their own needs. 11.45 Meeting No activity Room 3 Meeting Hazel Davidson: Workshop continued Room 2 Meeting Gail Hagar – Workshop continued Room 1 1.15 Meeting Keynote Address: Dr Carol Christensen: Room 3 Developing Community-based literacy Through Libraries: The Burdekin Project Developmental sequences are the key to proficiency in literacy for both children and adults. This presentation will describe current research on key developmental sequences and discuss how these underpin a community-based literacy project to be run through libraries in the Burdekin Shire. In 2011 the focus of the project will be specifically on developing decoding skills. Libraries will provide resources for children and adults as well as a location where volunteer tutors can meet with clients. Training in the program will be offered to all tutors and parents interested in participating in the program. 2.20 Meeting Yolande Entsch: Presentation Room 3 Using fun interactive programs and a community development approach in making a difference in the lives of people experiencing disadvantage. This presentation focuses on three programs that address three major life areas for people experiencing disadvantage: education (financial education program), employment (job seeking program) and housing (how to be a reasonable tenant). Each program has a comprehensive program delivery resource and a train the facilitator model is being developed to enable the delivery locally, statewide and nationally. All programs are relevant and appropriate for young people as well as adults.
All of the programs have been piloted locally and two have been delivered in other regions in Queensland. All programs are designed to be relevant across Australia, even possibly internationally.
Initially the programs were designed for Indigenous people and have also proven to be successful with non-Indigenous people. These programs have important characteristics: Learner-centred Strengths-based Using fun as a medium for learning Using Indigenous Learning Approaches: wholistic, contextual, reflective, valuing the group
All programs address learning, reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy skills.
Come and hear about ‘It’s About You’, ‘Our place’ and ‘Money Keys’. Meeting Margaret Wagstaff Room 2 Working with the Core Skills for Employment and Training units This workshop will familiarise participants with the recently accredited suite of
10 Core Skills for Employment and Training (CSET) courses. There are six levels in both Communication and Numeracy ranging from Preliminary, which is at a level below Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) Level 1, through to Certificate III at ACSF 5. This session will provide an overview of the new courses, their alignment to the ACSF and the relationship of the units to the ACSF core skills. It will include a detailed look at the structure and content of specific units.
Meeting Kristy Smith & Loretta Smith : Workshop Room 1 i-Padology- Show, Share and play In 2011, three teachers at Bracken Ridge campus of BNIT are exploring the use of Apple iPads in literacy and numeracy classrooms in LLNP and profile funded programs (including vocational and contextualised literacy/numeracy and Access 10 Maths & English).
BNIT has invested in a fleet of 25 iPads for student use over a 1 year trial period. The trial aims to discover whether student learning can be enhanced and supported by the integration of these ultra user-friendly devices into normal classroom activities. A few months in, the results so far are very positive. Come and join us to:
- hear about how we got the project off the ground - share our iPadagogical learnings so far - get up close and personal with an iPad - explore our Top 10 iPad apps for literacy and numeracy. 3.00 Meeting Bev Gosling Room 3 Aiming High in Literacy and Numeracy This program, developed and successfully trialled over ten years, allows progress from beginner to pre-tertiary level, from Module 1 to Module 5 in English in 2 versions – Reading,Writing, Listening and Speaking English as a second language and Learning Skills For the Future for those whose first language is English . The program on 1 DVD allows printing of 26 books and 30 audio teaching CD’s so that experienced and inexperienced tutors can teach the skills needed. Bev is a Primary and Secondary Resource Teacher with over 50 years experience in Literacy and Maths. She worked as Principal of a boarding school and 10 village schools in New Guinea for 7 years and after a stroke had to relearn to read herself. These books have come about because having known what it is like to be unable to read, Bev aims to enable students to find the freedom to communicate effectively. Meeting Margaret Wagstaff: Workshop continued Room 2 Meeting Kristy Smith & Loretta Smith : Workshop continued Room 1
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Hazel Davidson
Hazel has some 25 years of ESL teaching experience, mainly with adults. She has a long-term obsession with literacy for the lowest level classes. With illustrator, Dorothy Court, she is author of reading and spelling materials for beginner ESL, EFL and Adult Literacy students: The First Australians, A Very Big Country, Gold!, Australian Government (and soon a new package, Money Problems), in addition to English Spelling Vol. 1 (sounds of the alphabet and short vowels) and English Spelling Vol. 2 (digraphs and long vowels.) Hazel and Dorothy also wrote The Great South Land (NCELTR) and the Everyday Australian Picture Dictionary (funded and published by TELLS).
Yolande Entsch
All of Yolande’s qualifications are founded in learning and development using a range of mediums such as physical education, outdoor education, action learning, facilitation, adult education, coaching and business. She has worked in the disability, housing, youth, health and community sectors and has been working extensively with Indigenous organisations. Yolande is a consultant in program design for people in need; organisational and professional development, and is currently establishing her business Advance Centre Enterprises.
As well as the three programs being presented, she has designed and delivered 31 professional development programs to staff, Board members and volunteers of community organisations, delivered 18 competencies from Certificate II to Certificate IV level and written 8 student learning resources at Certificate IV level.
Yolande is passionate about and committed to adult learning as a journey in personal growth and development and prefers to deliver with fun, creativity and laughter.
Bev Gosling
Bev is a Primary and Secondary Resource Teacher with over 50 years experience in Literacy and Maths. She worked as Principal of a boarding school and 10 village schools in New Guinea for 7 years and after a stroke had to relearn to read herself. These books have come about because having known what it is like to be unable to read, Bev aims to enable students to find the freedom to communicate effectively.
Gail Hagar
Gail has extensive experience in all aspects of literacy and numeracy training having worked locally and internationally in this industry for over 29 years. She is well- qualified, holding a variety of qualifications, including a Master’s degree in Education. Gail has worked for and provided consulting services to schools on the Gold Coast and also universities and TAFE colleges. She has also worked extensively in adult education offering training in literacy and numeracy in the workplace (including the WELL program) as well as professional development for teachers and trainers. Currently, Gail is training manager of Kwa
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Cathy Malone
Cathy Malone is a Principal Planning Officer with the Department of Education and Training. She has worked for Queensland Government for nearly 10 years in Employment and Training departments. She is currently undertaking a project for Department of Education and Training to develop an investment policy focused on Core Skills. She also represents DET on the National Foundation Skills Strategy Working Group. Prior to this project, she was a Senior Employment Advisor for DEEDI in the Employment and Indigenous Initiatives division managing Skilling Queenslanders for Work programs. She holds a Bachelor of Adult & Vocational Teaching and taught literacy and numeracy in community organizations and private RTOs before joining the Department of Employment and Training in 2002 as a QAELLN officer.
Viv Poon
Viv’s background was as a teacher of Art, Textiles and Hospitality before she moved in teaching ESL students. As an ESL teacher, she has taught in AMEP, ELTU and ELICOS programs at Milpera SHS, international and private English colleges and various TAFE institutes, in community settings and in TAFE English Language and Literacy Services and off-shore in Shanghai.
Since 2002, Viv specialised as a pre-literacy teacher within the AMEP program, before taking up the role as Volunteer Tutor Co-ordinator, overseeing approximately 200 tutors (home & classroom tutors).
Her pet interest is in Driving Literacy. She wrote a driver literacy program for NESB learners to achieve L licence at Harmony Place and she wrote & trialled an on line Driving Literacy Unit on Blackboard (SBIT). She is currently developing further resources for Driving Literacy.
Chris Sayer
Christine Sayer is Senior Project Officer, Public and Indigenous Library Services, State Library of Queensland. Over the past 20 years she has worked for a number of different cultural organisations and institutions. Her professional experience centres on a community cultural development approach which she brings to her work at the State Library. She has recently worked with a colleague Louise Bauer to develop a literacy framework ‘Libraries for literacy – every day, every way: 2011-2014’.
Kristy Smith
Kristy teaches adult literacy and numeracy in LLNP and profile funded programs and in the Access 10 program at Brisbane North Institute of TAFE. Kristy is particularly interested in the use and integration of technology, mobile learning and social media in literacy and numeracy teaching. Her interests in technology include iPads, iPods, smartphones, wikis, blogs and making literacy and digital literacy learning fun and accessible for students
13 Loretta Smith
Loretta has been a teacher at BNIT for the past 10 years. Loretta has taught literacy, numeracy and language at Bracken Ridge, Caboolture and Redcliffe campuses.She has also worked on The Get Set For Work program for many years dealing with local disengaged youth. Loretta is at present studying for her Masters in Education at QUT. The focus of her masters is Digital Literacy.
Margaret Wagstaff
Margaret has taught adult literacy and numeracy in regional and metropolitan institutes since the early 1980s. During this time she has experienced many developments in curricula brought about by events such as changes in policies and funding, and the introduction of the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) and its predecessor, the National Reporting System (NRS). Margaret has always been interested in literacy/numeracy curricula and resource development and was a member of the Course Development Advisory Committee for the courses in Core Skills for Employment and Training. Her current role is Senior Educational Consultant at TAFE English Language and Literacy Services.
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