Webinars Session
ALA webinar: Building Inclusive and Sustainable Learning Partnerships
Background Place-based learning city frameworks founded on lifelong learning and the concept of a learning society have immense potential to address a wide range of local and global environmental and societal challenges. The OECD and UNESCO stress the importance of changing approaches to education and learning to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN […]
ALA webinar: Aboriginal English and code-switching
This session aims to focus on Aboriginal English as a social, cultural and linguistical marker in Indigenous Tertiary Education and to promote an understanding of the languages spoken by Aboriginal people when processing and analysing new academic concepts, jargons, and terminologies. It will include a learner voice with regards to learning in an additional language. […]
NEW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Practitioner Program (ALNPP) Units
Expression of Interest: Learn Local pre-accredited practitioners can register their interest to complete either or both of the ALNPP additional modules: ‘ALNPP Koorie module’ and/or ‘ALNPP Professional Learning Network’ for Semester 2 2023. Please use the form below to register. Once you have submitted your details, we will send you an email with your login […]
Climate Justice Education: Towards a pluriverse of possibilities: Unlearning separation, re-learning relationality – Session2
INVITATION TO A TWO-PART TEACH-IN Towards a pluriverse of possibilities: Unlearning separation, re-learning relationality The world as we know it is not sustainable. To change these realities, we need to dig deep to the very roots of Western thinking – this is a big story of alternative worldmaking at every level. This includes how we […]
Climate Justice Education: Towards a pluriverse of possibilities: Unlearning separation, re-learning relationality – Session1
INVITATION TO A TWO-PART TEACH-IN Towards a pluriverse of possibilities: Unlearning separation, re-learning relationality The world as we know it is not sustainable. To change these realities, we need to dig deep to the very roots of Western thinking – this is a big story of alternative worldmaking at every level. This includes how we […]
ALA webinar: Learning resources and tools
This session will focus on learning goals, resources, who can help, practical tools, exploring options, and learning assessments in project-based teaching. About the Presenter See recording below.
ALA webinar: Learner engagement strategies
For our next session in the What Works series, we are joined by Dave Bauer, Brendan Murray, and Sharmy Ramachandran. Led by facilitator Ros Bauer, the session will explore the importance of engagement strategies in the adult learning context. Our presenters will provide a unique perspective, each coming from a different background within the adult […]
Phonics as part of whole language
Ros Bauer is joined by Lyn Wilson and Meg Cotter to explore the role of phonics. This webinar explores whole language including the role of phonics in learner centre delivery. About the presenters Lyn Wilson Lyn Wilson has extensive experience in successfully delivering a highly diverse range of language, literacy and numeracy programs for TAFE […]
Reading and writing strategies
This webinar is the third installment of the What Works Professional Learning Series 2023. A panel of experts present practical strategies that support adults in a Foundation Skills context and others on Individual Learning Programs for everyday literacy purposes. Recording below:
Support strategies for different learner types
Focus: Drawing on key concept in classroom practise, pedagogy and resource creation from different practise arenas, (e.g. CALD, LLN, ESL), this webinar will focus on strategies that cater to multiple learner types. Audience: classroom practitioners Key focus areas: Creating a supportive learning environment Classroom management and activity selection Classroom interaction patterns Key discussion points: Engage […]
Annual General Meeting 2023
Guest speaker: Cath Macgonigal, Executive Director and Principal, Odyssey College will present on the educational arm of Sydney’s addiction treatment service Odyssey House, which provides free adult education to help residents recovering from addiction so they can develop the skills they need to rebuild their lives. Odysessy College was featured in our most recent Quest […]
ALA webinar: Using sport to kick more goals in numeracy
This session will focus on practical and hands-on approaches that use sport and recreational contexts to encourage learners to engage with and understand maths and numeracy concepts. Sport and recreational activities often reveal a range of quantitative, spatial and statistical (and even algebraic) numeracy knowledge and skills embedded in people’s everyday life. Come along and […]
Transforming education and training in Australia: challenges and opportunities
A hybrid policy forum Hosted by the Australian Coalition for Education and Development (ACED), Adult Learning Australia (ALA), Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE), the Jean Monnet Network on Social and Scientific Innovation on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and the European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University […]
What Works Professional Learning Series
What Works 2023 will focus on adult literacy and learning practice. This eight-part online professional learning series brings together experts in the field to explore effective adult reading, writing, and learning strategies – with a strong emphasis on fun and engagement. Each session will be co-facilitated by Ros Bauer and Jo Medlin with presentations from […]
Applying practice engagement theory to developing literacy and numeracy
Join us for the first session of the What Works 2023 series! Dr Reder shares how practice engagement theory can help us understand how adults’ use of skills in everyday life affects their lifelong and life-wide learning, their social and economic outcomes, and their overall well-being. You can read Dr Stephen Reder’s full commentary here. […]