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'View by Date' allows you to see ALEA Professional Learning activities in date order, helping you locate events that suit your availability.

• 19 May 2012: Literacy - A Belief

  ALEA ACT
  Literacy - A Belief not a Block
  Presenters: Lorraine Wilson and Heidi Bush

  This professional learning event will allow teachers to reflect on implementing a quality literacy programme that is based on beliefs rather than the timed literacy block. A fantastic professional development opportunity for all teachers!

• 19 May 2012: Inclusive Reading

  ALEA SA
  Inclusive Reading in the 21st Century
  PRESENTER: Sandy Russo

  How easy is it to create an inclusive reading environment using e-books, e-reading, ITC and multimodal texts? What are the pros and cons of some of the most popular e-reading devices? These questions and more addressed in this session.

• 24 May 2012: Implementing the Curriculum

  ALEA Tas South
  Implementing the Australian Curriculum presented by Libby Robinson
  Followed by the ALEA Tas South AGM

  Implementing the Australian Curriculum - Instructional implications to ensure equity and excellence are enacted in classrooms.

• 30 May 2012: Shortlist and Notables

  ALEA DARLING DOWNS
  A Presentation on 2012 Children's Book Council Shortlist and Notables - for teachers and lovers of children's literature
  PRESENTER: Liz Derouet

  Liz explains how the judging process works, the differences between the lists, the judging criteria, the merits of past shortlisted books and more! Discover how shortlisted books can be used in classrooms and what they offer to different target audiences. THIS IS A FREE EVENT!

• 31 May 2012: Literacy Heaven - Look at a Book

  ALEA MACKAY
  Literacy Heaven - Look at a Book (Reading Comprehension: Taking the Learning Deeper)
  PRESENTER: Christine Topfer

  Christine will present the outcomes of a major professional learning project which provided sixty teachers from across the state with opportunities to design, monitor and implement research based on powerful, accessible ideas about reading comprehension in their own classrooms.
  

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• 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.

• 20 Jun 2012: Classroom Chats

  ALEA ACT
  Classroom Chats: using picture books in the upper primary classroom to inspire reading and writing
  PRESENTER: Kelly Booker

  Picture books continue to provide students with opportunities to interpret and evaluate texts. Kelly Booker provides practical examples of how diverse and controversial picture books can be used to engage and inspire both reading and writing in an upper primary classroom.

• 20 Jun 2012: Classroom Chats

  ALEA ACT
  Classroom Chats: Literacy Learning - a contextualised, whole school approach
  PRESENTER: Jane Cronan

  Jane Cronan and her team describe the components they incoporate into their literacy teaching and learning and the whole-school approach that helps teachers develop a literacy block into something that is fun and effective.

• 20 Jun 2012: Classroom Chats

  ALEA ACT
  Classroom Chats: Combining Writer's Notebook and the cLc
  PRESENTER: Sophie Bissell

  Using both writer's notebook and the cLc, teachers can provide students with interactive and cooperative learning opportunities during literacy lessons. This approach can work in your classroom!

• 20 Jun 2012: Classroom Chats

  ALEA ACT
  Classroom Chats: Improving Students' Writing through Grammar
  PRESENTERS: Debbie Martens and Louise Cullen

  An investigation of how functional grammar is used as a shared language for exploring the structure of English language in the Australian Curriculum. Speakers will share examples of classroom implementation strategies to support students.

• 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.