Recorded Session
Mentoring event 2: Do you need support teaching adult numeracy?
Adult Learning Australia is offering three numeracy mentoring sessions that will complement our innovative 8-part: What Works: Teaching Adult Numeracy series Numeracy expert, Dave Tout, will run three informal Q&A and mentoring sessions to respond to your individual queries and questions about adult numeracy. These mentoring sessions are a great opportunity for some individualised mentoring […]
What works professional learning series workshop 4: Exploring numeracy in our everyday lives
Session 4: Exploring numeracy in our everyday lives This workshop will explore numeracy embedded in everyday life such as cooking, gardening, health management – including concepts such as measurement, fractions etc. Our facilitators This webinar is free for ALA members, or $65 for non-members. We are offering a discounted price of $400 for […]
What works professional learning series workshop 5: Getting from here to there with numeracy
Session 5: Getting from here to there with numeracy This session explores practical strategies to help educators support adults comprehend different aspects of time, use maps (including digital maps), follow directions, and travel with ease to new locations (working out time intervals and durations, interpreting timetables and schedules, etc.) Our facilitators This webinar […]
What works professional learning series workshop 6: Numeracy, statistics and big data
Session 6: Numeracy, statistics and big data Hands-on approaches that use data to reveal quantitative and statistical numeracy concepts as they relate to the workplace and everyday life. Our facilitators
What works professional learning series workshop 7: Making sense of money and your finances
Session 7: Making sense of money and your finances Creates links between numeracy and financial literacy – covering key numeracy concepts including calculations, numbers and decimals, etc. This webinar is free for ALA members, or $65 for non-members. We are offering a discounted price of $400 for the full series for non-members. You can […]
Adult Learners Week 2022 launch
Connect with learning Join us at the Adult Learners Week 2022 launch as we hear stories from inspiring people who have found connection and opportunity through learning. Rusty Berther – our MC – Rusty started his working life flipping burgers at Maccas then worked as a roof plumber before finding success and touring the world […]
What works professional learning series workshop 8: Developing basic numeracy for the workplace
This is the final session in our what works professional learning series. Explores ways to support adults with workplace numeracy concepts; including formulae, measurements, rates and ratios, estimation, accuracy and tolerances. Our facilitators
Virtual workshop: Climate just pedagogy – what lessons have we learned?
PIMA webinar series: climate justice and ALE presents Climate Just Pedagogy – what lessons have we learned? A webinar co-hosted by PIMA, CASAE, ALA, MOJA and SCUTREA Over the last eighteen months PIMA, in collaboration with the Canadian Association for Studies in Adult Education (CASAE), Adult Learning Australia (ALA) and Standing Conference on University […]
What works professional learning series workshop 1: Starting points to teaching adults numeracy
Session 1: Starting points to teaching adults numeracy This workshop will explore hands-on approaches to teaching numeracy using simple everyday materials – covering different levels and different maths content, including: estimating skills measurement (time and mass) money and decimals. Our facilitators This webinar is free for ALA members, or $65 for non-members. We are […]
ALA webinar IV: What works: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities – adult literacy and learning
Adult Learning Australia’s national conversation continues, bringing together representatives of leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adult education organisations to explore ‘What works: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities – adult literacy and learning’ in response to the Federal government’s inquiry into adult literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills in Australia. Welcome Rebecca Arbon […]
ALA webinar: A national conversation – adult numeracy approaches – what works? Part III
Adult Learning Australia’s national conversation continues, bringing together representatives of leading adult education organisations to explore ‘adult numeracy approaches – what works’ in response to the Federal government’s inquiry into adult literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills in Australia. Welcome Annette Foley – President – Adult Learning Australia Annette is an Associate Professor of Adult […]
PIMA webinar: Ecofeminism makes sense: Towards life-affirming Adult Learning and Education (ALE)
PIMA webinar series: climate justice and ALE presents Ecofeminism makes sense: Towards life-affirming Adult Learning and Education (ALE) A webinar co-hosted by PIMA, ALA, CASAE and SCUTREA Climate justice, including social, gender and economic justice, is attained by foregrounding the needs and interests of the people who have contributed least to climate catastrophes yet […]
ALA webinar: Orthographic mapping and its role in reading fluency
Orthographic mapping is the process readers use to turn unfamiliar written words into familiar sight words that can be immediately and effortlessly retrieved from long-term memory. Orthographic mapping answers the questions… How does an unfamiliar word become a familiar sight word? Why do poor readers have limited sight vocabularies? There is nothing intuitive about the […]
ALA webinar: Using the ACSF with low LN learners in diverse programs
About this session The ACSF is a multi-layered document that can be used at a number of levels of complexity. The focus in this webinar is to show how the ACSF can be used in a simplified way to: ballpark individual core skills performance provide generalised mapping of core skills requirements in education and training […]
ALA webinar: Community learning through adversity and disaster
A conversation about adaptation through needs based lifelong learning This presentation will draw from recent research on Men’s Sheds in regional and remote Victoria. It will reference a case study of a community-based Shed in a disadvantaged rural location to discuss the role local community learning can play in responding to and developing resilience in […]