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Thursday July 9 2009

Pre-conference Institutes (9.00am – 3.00pm)

There are three Pre-conference Institutes on Thursday, all of which are from 9.00am until 3.00pm. The cost of these Pre-conference Institutes is not included in the conference registration and is $90 for conference delegates and $110 for non-conference delegates. Further information on the Pre-conference Institutes can be found on the Pre-conference Institute page of this website.

1. Jeff Wilhelm, Peggy Wilhelm and Erika Boas

Enlivening Literacy through Inquiry and Social Action

2. Peter O’Connor

Who's That Clip Clopping Across my Bridge?

3. P David Pearson and Scott Paris

Reading Comprehension: Defining it, teaching it and assessing it

4.30 – 6.30pm

Registrations – Trade Exhibitions
7.00 – 7.30pm

Welcome to Country

Conference Opening
Margaret Kelly, Charles Morgan - Conference Convenors
7.30 – 8.30pm

Opening Address
Richard Flanagan
Distinguished Tasmanian author

'Why novels are power'
8.30 – 9.30pm

Welcome Reception

 

Friday July 10 2009

9.00 - 9.15am

Official Opening
The Premier of Tasmania and Minister for Education and Skills, the Honourable David Bartlett, MP

9.15 -10.30am

Plenary
P David Pearson

The Pedagogy of Promise: Obama, Bush, and Australia
Morning Tea
11.00 - 12.30pm

Keynotes

  • Peter Freebody

"Bridges and divides" in high stakes curriculum knowledge, language and literacy in the classroom: What governments, systems and people should want to know about literacy achievement in school.

  • Juliana Saxton & Carole Miller

Bridging the conversations between our inner selves and the outside world
11.00 - 12.30pm

Concurrent Sessions

  •  Neale Pitches - sponsored by Lioncrest

Accelerating progress in Grades 3-8 Literacy - Comprehension Score and More ...

 

A: 11.00am – 11.40am B: 11.50am – 12.30pm

A: 11.00am - 11.40am

  •  Maria Pallotta - Chiarroli - sponsored by Random House

Bridging and Bordering Cultural, Gender and Sexual Divides

 

B: 11.50am - 12.30pm

 
Lunch
1.30 - 3.00pm

Keynotes

  • David Hornsby

Springboards into literacy: ensuring access for all

  • J C Burke - sponsored by Random House

The Story of Tom Brennan from idea to novel
1.30 - 3.00pm

Concurrent Sessions

  •  Jeff Wilhelm
Getting it Right! The constructive teaching of correct language use
A: 1.30pm – 2.10pm B: 2.20pm – 3.00pm

A: 1.30pm - 2.10pm


 

B: 2.20pm - 3.00pm

 
Afternoon Tea
3.30 - 5.00pm

Keynotes

  • Phil Cormack

A Pedagogical persepective on literacy teaching: Thinking beyond strategies and techniques

  •   Lester-Irabinna Rigney

Future directions for indigenous education post apology; trends and implications for literacy
3.30 - 5.00pm

Concurrent Sessions

  •  Bell Shakespeare
  •  Leonie Rowan

The Most Important R of all: Relationships! Creating positive partnerships between teachers, kids and caregivers in transformative classrooms

  • Peter O'Connor

A Book of Promises.

A: 3.30pm - 4.10pm B: 4.20pm - 5.00pm

A: 3.30pm - 4.10 pm

  •  Natalie Jane Prior
Please, I'm Stuck: Common Creative Writing Mistakes Children make, and How You Can Help Them Avoid Them.


 

B: 4.20pm - 5.00pm

 
6.00 – 7.00pm

Cocktail Party - Government House

 

Saturday July 11 2009

7.15 – 8.30am

Literary Breakfast Session - Wrest Point

Finding the Front Door: Puzzles and Delights of Australian Culture

Robert Hillman and Najaf Mazari - The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif

Sponsored by Insight Publications
9.00 - 10.30am

Plenary

Peter O'Connor

Talking about the way the world wags

(Garth Boomer Memorial Address)
Morning Tea
11.00 - 12.00pm

Keynotes

  • Andy Griffiths
Why did the boy fall off his bike? Humour, creativity and bridge-building
  • Gabrielle Matters

Bridging the divide by replacing dichotomies with continua
11.00 - 12.00pm

Concurrent Sessions

  • Nicholas Jose and Donna Gibbs - sponsored by Allen & Unwin
The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature: Teaching Texts for Our Times
  • Robert Hillman - sponsored by Insight Publications

When Two Become One: Robert Hillman discusses the craft of creating voice on paper.

  • Phil Cormack

The Children's Hour: School papers and the reshaping of the teacher-student relation in the classroom

  • Scott Paris

Engaged and Disengaged Readers

   

 

 
12.00 - 2.00pm Ferry to Market and Lunch
Lunch Time Presentations
2.00 - 3.15pm

Plenary
Pirjo Sinko

To quality through equity in a Finnish way

Concurrent Sessions 2.00 - 3.15pm

  • Juliana Saxton and Carole Miller

Drama: Language in action / literacies in practice
Afternoon Tea
3.45 - 5.00pm

Keynotes

  • Natalie Jane Prior
Small Pleasures: an Australian Children's Author Working in an International Market
  • Maria Pallotta - Chiarroli - sponsored by Random House

Weaving textual tapestries: weaving the 'Italian woman writer' into the social fabric across genres and generations, borders and divides.
3.45 - 5.00pm

Concurrent Sessions 3.45 – 4.45pm


 

A: 3.45pm - 4.25pm B: 4.30pm - 5.00pm

A: 3.45pm - 4.25pm

  • David Harris
  • Christine Harris
B: 4.25pm - 5.00pm
  • ALEA AGM

 
7.00 for 7.30pm

Conference Dinner

 

Sunday July 12 2009

9.00 - 10.30am

Presentation of ALEA Award

Plenary

Scott Paris

Bridges to Improved pedagogies: Lessons from Singapore
Morning Tea
11.00 - 12.00pm

Keynotes

  • Leonie Rowan

Powerful Partners or Pushy Pests? The positioning of parents in Home/School Literacy Partnerships

  • Barry McGaw

Pursuing quality and equity through a national curriculum
11.00 - 12.00pm

Concurrent Sessions

  •  Andy Griffiths

But where do the ideas come from?

  • Pirjo Sinko

The reading and writing curriculum in Finnish schools

   

 

 
Lunch
1.00 - 2.00pm

Keynotes

  • Kirsty Murray
Imagining the future world: narrative, cultural literacy, and nurturing global citizens
  • Andy Goodwyn

Expert teachers and innovative uses of technology
1.00 - 2.00pm

Concurrent Sessions

  •  P David Pearson

Back to the Future with Integrated Curriculum: Using Reading, Writing, and Language as Tools for promoting Knowledge and Thinking in Inquiry-based Science

   

 

 
2.00 – 2.10pm

Conference 2010 Perth – ALEA WA / ETA WA
2.10 - 3.30pm

Closing Plenary


Jeff Wilhelm

Achieving teacher expertise: what I have learned from my students and what I have learned from you and this conference
3.30pm – 4.30pm

Conference Close and Farewell Reception

 

 

Contact Us

2009 AATE/ALEA National Conference
Learning Services South
GPO Box 169
Hobart Tasmania 7001
03 62123247
03 62123249 (fax)
ian.morgan@education.tas.gov.au