Webinars Session
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 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 […]
ALA & VALBEC webinar: What does it mean to be numerate?
Adult Learning Australia and Victorian Adult Literacy Basic Education Council are coming together for this special webinar event. This webinar is designed for teachers of literacy who also teach some numeracy. It will discuss what are important concepts to understand. The webinar will look at the common issues learners have with numeracy and mathematics. It […]
ALA Virtual Event: Looking back, casting forward – 60 years of Adult Learning in Australia
What can we learn from the history of adult learning and education in Australia and what lies ahead? Hear from Australian and international leaders in adult learning and education (ALE) as they reflect on key milestones in adult learning’s past and discuss their vision for its future. This virtual event marks the 60th anniversary of […]
ALA webinar: Adults’ Lifelong Learning: the mediation of person + education + ‘community’
About this session As a means of advancing our understandings and practices as adult educators, this webinar explores how adults’ learning can be mediated by the interrelations amongst person + education + community. Certainly, we need more complete and comprehensive understandings of this phenomenon. What constitutes and supports adults’ learning across their lives for economic, […]
ALA webinar: Industry engagement for ACE RTOs delivering EAL and Foundation Skills qualifications
As a community-based registered training organisation (RTO) it’s important for your organisation to engage with industry to ensure your vocational qualifications are: keeping up to date with industry trends complying with RTO standards reflecting what is required by the industry. To support ACE RTOs, Adult Learning Australia has convened a panel of stakeholders to […]
ALA LLN webinar: 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 […]
ALA webinar: The Power and Potential of Adult Learning and Education in Changing Times
The Power and Potential of Adult Learning and Education in Changing Times A free webinar as part of Adult Learners’ Week – Celebrating 25 years Adult learning and education (ALE) is dynamic, it has a key role in solving some of the biggest challenges of our time. Social cohesion, health and wellbeing, digitalisation, equality, employment, […]
ALA Webinar: 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 webinar is designed to gather 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 the statistics […]
Adult Learners Week 2020 national launch
Adult Learners Week 2020 Launch Join the conversation, as comedian and author Catherine Deveny explores stories of resilience and renewal through learning shared by our fantastic speakers. Guest speakers Shane Fitzsimmons – Former NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner whose leadership guided NSW through one of the biggest natural disasters in our nation’s history. Sean Sweeney […]
ALA webinar: Lifelong learning: transitions, changes and learning across working life
Much is made of the importance of adults’ learning across adult life and, particularly, for work-related purposes. This is now seen as being both important and urgent as the requirements for work as well as social and cultural activities constantly change and the need to be employable over a longer portion of adult life and […]
ALA webinar: The Little Things project
The Little Things project, which is led by the Farnham Street Neighbourhood Learning Centre in partnership with Meaningful Ageing Australia. The Little Things project is evidence-based training kit on intercultural communication built on authentic interactions between highly skilled PCAs from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) backgrounds and older people who are accessing aged care. […]
ALA webinar: Adult learning, crises and the ‘new’ normal
We, as adult educators, responded to the multiple crises we faced. We, as adult educators, identified the crises as an opportunity to advance our own work. And now… how do we harvest the fruits of these crises and make our communities and leaders recognise and value the role of adult learning and education in what […]
ALA webinar: Managing challenging behaviours
Behaviours that pose challenges to adult educators can impact on a learner’s capacity to engage. Developing relationships that lead to positive outcomes,can form the basis for helping adults learn how to learn. In order for adult educators to create safe learning environments, it is necessary to understand what motivates these challenging behaviours. If we understand […]
ALA LLN webinar: 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 […]