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Note: W=Workshop 60 mins; P=Presentation 30 mins/ S=Snapshot 30 mins

23 September 2010 Day 1

8.30am - 8.45am              Registration  - (Stuartholme School Theatre Foyer)

8.45 am - 9.00am             Welcome

9.00am -  9.45am              Keynote 1: Conference Strand: School Improvement

Emeritus Professor Frank Crowther "The 21st century teacher professional: What to anticipate, what to hope for, what to fear"

9.50 - 10.50am  Individual Sessions 1 - School Improvement

• NAPLAN a tool for the facilitation of learning (P)
•  Practical Strategies for Sustainable Learning: A Toolbox of Ideas (W)
•  Teacher efficacy and service-learning in pre-internship teacher education (P)
•  ‘Concept Management'; Professional Development based on Intentional Decision Making (P)
•  Transformational Leadership - Framework for leading eLearning (W)
• IDEAS approach to school improvement (W)
• Not Being a Scarecrow: Re-visioning Teacher Supervision through Action Research (P)
• Action Research for Practising Teachers (P)
• School improvement using evidence based data (P)

10.50 - 11.15am                Morning Tea

11.15- 12.00pm                Keynote 2: Conference Strand: School Improvement

Professor Paula Barrett Building Resilience and Emotional competency-evidence based practice

12.05 - 1.05pm  Individual Sessions 2 - repeat of session 1

• NAPLAN a tool for the facilitation of learning (P)
• Practical Strategies for Sustainable Learning: A Toolbox of Ideas (W)
• Teacher efficacy and service-learning in pre-internship teacher education (P)
• ‘Concept Management'; Professional Development based on Intentional Decision Making (P)
• Transformational Leadership - Framework for leading eLearning (W)
• IDEAS approach to school improvement (W)
• Not Being a Scarecrow: Re-visioning Teacher Supervision through Action Research (P)
• Action Research for Practising Teachers (P)
• School improvement using evidence based data (P)

1.05- 1.30pm     Discussion - Q & A Session - School Improvement

1.30pm - 2.15pm             Lunch

2.15pm - 3.00pm             Keynote 3: Conference Strand Literacy, Numeracy and Science

Professor Margaret Moustafa Literacy and Early Reading

3.00 - 4.05pm    Individual Sessions 3

• Teaching literacy to students with disabilities (W)

• Developing and Assessing Written Texts for middle school aged students (W)
• Hands on / Minds on Toolbox for All Intelligences. Focus on Quick Tricks, Tools and Fixes for Learning (W)
• Sustaining the future with actions and problems (P)
• Green Head: Applying Community Literacy to Environmental Campaign (S)
• Utilising technology to teach skills needed for an uncertain future (P)
• Just Another Way of Knowing? Innovative Science teaching (S)
• Science Involves Problem Solving (W)
• Literacy and digital pedagogies in teaching English (P)
• Information Literacy and its application to Clinical Decision Making in Nursing (P)

4.05- 4.30pm     Discussion - Q & A Session - Literacy, Numeracy and Science

4.30 - 4.45pm    Conclusion of Day One

6.30pm for 7.00pm             Conference Dinner - Stuartholme School Dining Room

24 September 2010 Day 2

8.30am - 8.45am              Registration  - (Stuartholme School Theatre Foyer)

8.45 am - 9.00am             Welcome

9.00am -  10.00am            Keynote 4: Conference Strand: Ways of Learning/Digital Pedagogies

Professor Mike Chuang - Multimedia online language, Assessment, language acquisition problems and learning theory

Dr Yi-Jing Lin - Learning Languages online and digital pedagogies

10.00 - 11.0am  Individual Sessions 4 - Ways of Learning/Digital Pedagogies

•  Integrating Student Response Systems (Clickers) within pedagogy: Reflections from lessons learnt (P)

• Enhancing Professional development for teachers: What Make the Difference when Teachers Producing Online Course Website Materials? (P)
• Some people make a lifetime career out of defining scientific method, I just use it! (W)
• Experiencing a digital classroom (W)
• Transnational pedagogies for tertiary learning (P)
• Exploring the tapestry of meaningful practices for sustainable futures (P)

10.55 - 11.30am                Morning Tea

11.30- 12.15pm                Keynote 5: Conference Strand: Ways of Learning/Digital Pedagogies

Professor Boni Robertson Defining an Appropriate Model for Indigenous Participants in Work Integrated Learning

12.15 - 1.15pm  Individual Sessions 5 - repeat of session 4 workshops

• On the concept of authenticity and culture (P)

• An Action Study of Aboriginal Knowledge Service: Tutor Within Youth Neighbourhood (P)
• A Case Study of Asian Learning Circle: Open the Window of Hope (W)
• Differently abled children and the mainstream (P)
• Professional Development and pre-service teacher education (P)
• Pre-service teachers of literacy - learning styles (P)
• Newspapers and the ESL/EFL teacher (P)
• Fostering Multicultural Education and Diversity: Transformative Learning Experience (P)

1.20- 1.40pm     Discussion - Q & A Session - Ways of Learning/Digital Pedagogy

1.40 - 2.10pm    Lunch

2.10 - 3.10 pm   Individual Sessions 6 - Service Learning & Values

• Awakening life smarts and skill in disengaged youth (P)

• Learning is for everyone, Learning is transforming, Learning is for Life.- A CLEAR journey to L'RACE (W)
• A model of service learning in two schools (W)
• A Heritage Learning Space - a space for reflection. (P)
• Developing the Culture: The Magic Worm Farm (S)

3.15- 4.00pm     Keynote 6: Conference Strand:  Service Learning

Father Chris Riley Strengths-based learning and values pedagogy

4.00- 4.20pm     Discussion - Q & A Session - Service Learning & Values

4.30 - 4.45pm    Conclusion

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