Webinars Session
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 […]
Adult Learners Week Launch 2021
Be inspired by people who have changed their life stories through learning. Our MC Catherine Deveny – our MC, is a writer, comedian, author and speaker well known for her work as a columnist with The Age newspaper, as a Melbourne International Comedy Festival favourite and as an ABC regular. She has appeared on ABC’s […]
Literacy Changes Lives – Adult literacy and numeracy in the Australian context
Preconference Video Presentation available from Thursday 3 June 2021 Adult Learning Australia joins the Adult Education in Global Times Conference 2021 (#AEGT2021) online to bring you a special presentation: Literacy Changes Lives – Adult literacy and numeracy in the Australian context This online forum will provide an overview of adult literacy provision in Australia that […]
Free online event: A national conversation on adult literacy approaches – what works?
Celebrating Adult Learners Week and UNESCO International Literacy Day Adult Learning Australia’s national conversation will bring together leading education organisations to explore their submissions into the Australian federal government’s inquiry into adult literacy and its importance. Welcome Judith McKay (MC) – Executive Board Member – Adult Learning Australia Keynote Analiese Robertson– Director – ACE Aotearoa […]
ALA workshop: Validation of ACSF assessment resources
This webinar is for adult language, literacy and numeracy practitioners to come together and look at aspects of quality language, literacy and numeracy assessment. It provides an excellent opportunity to gain external validation of tasks mapped to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). About the ACSF The ACSF provides a validated framework of national benchmarks […]
Webinar co-hosted by PIMA, ALA, CASAE and SCUTREA
Resilience or rebellion? Exploring resilience and climate justice: challenges for ALE In these times of extreme precarity, a new buzzword is ‘resilience’. In combination with adjectives resilience means many different things to different constituencies across the natural and social sciences, ranging from absorptive to adaptive; restorative to transformative resilience. This webinar explores different interpretations […]
ALA webinar: Best practice in online facilitation
In this interactive webinar, we’ll highlight insights from recent research about how adults learn, then explore how to use these insights when facilitating virtual learning.
2021 ALA Annual General Meeting with guest speaker 7 May @ 1pm AEST
This year’s AGM will present the 2020 Annual Report, announce the results of this year’s Board elections and feature guest speaker Dr Keiko Yasukawa. Presentation: The role of adult education in women’s empowerment
ALA forum: The transformative impact of literacy and learning programs for prisoners
Australia’s prison population has disproportionately low levels of language, literacy and numeracy skills, lower levels of educational attainment and higher levels of learning difficulties and learning disabilities than people in the general community.
ALA webinar: Key skills for learning to read Pt 1: Oral language
Join us for the first session of this special two-part series of webinars. Session 1: Oral Language Listening and speaking underpin learning, work, and social interactions. However, not all adults with literacy difficulties, are confident when relating with others and may need increased opportunities to listen to, and speak with, others in a range […]
ALA facilitated discussion: Building trauma informed supports in adult learning
This webinar is for adult educators who have experienced teaching to students living with trauma and PTSD. Share your experience This second discussion session is to gather further experiences and professional insights from adult educators to assist in building stronger resources for teachers and the VET sector. The discussion will explore: students with trauma/PTSD and […]
ALA webinar: Key skills for learning to read Pt 2: Vocabulary
Join us for the second session of this special two-part series of webinars. Session 2: Vocabulary Learning more words makes people smarter. There are a number of adults who have quite limited vocabularies, and this potentially limits their learning, work, and social possibilities. In this session I will outline why new vocabulary needs to […]