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New South Wales

• 10 May 2012: Language Acquisition

  ALEA SYDNEY WEST
  Language Acquisition and Development in the Mainstream Classroom: Supporting Students who are learning English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D)
  SPEAKERS: Linda Drayton and Alma George

  This session provides opportunities for participants to reflect on their classroom and school practices and explores a variety of teaching strategies based on a theoretical framework of English language and literacy pedagogy.

• 7 Jun 2012: Metacognitive Magic

  ALEA SYDNEY WEST
  Metacognitive Magic: bringing comprehension to life in the classroom
  SPEAKERS: Michelle Rosewell and Jodi Jefferson

  Explore how modelling, sharing, explicit and guided instruction and independent practice with peers can activate the potential of every student and help them to begin to consciously use a range of cognitive strategies when reading.

• 11 Aug 2012: Creating Writing Classrooms

  ALEA SYDNEY NORTH
  Creating Writing Classroom where Students Love to Write: the Power of Teacher Feedback
  PRESENTERS: Susan Tolhurst and Wendy Bean

  Discover how the development of a whole school approach to teaching and writing at Windang Public School has resulted in improved student outcomes and the creation of an environment where students enjoy writing.

• 16 Aug 2012: Developing Deep Understanding

  ALEA SYDNEY WEST
  Developing Deep Understanding of Texts Through Readers' Theatre
  PRESENTER: Robyn Ewing

  Readers' Theatre is a drama strategy that motivates children to use talking, listening, reading and writing to improve their reading and enable them to develop deep understanding of texts. This workshop will be practical and will use contemporary, quality, literary texts. Come prepared to have fun.

• 6 Sep 2012: Curriculum Literacy Demands

  ALEA SYDNEY WEST
  Literacy Demands Across the Curriculum
  PRESENTER: Peter Freebody

  In this session Peter will discuss some of his current research on literacy in the middle and secondary school years, with particular attention to the increasingly differentiated literacy demands across different curriculum areas and the consequences for literacy of the transition from primary to secondary schooling.