ACAL - Australian Council for Adult Literacy
Next Literacy Live:
Tuesday 13 May 8:30pm (AEST) • Free and at your own computer
"Less Teaching and More Learning: Promising Practices in Adult Literacy"
Dr Heide Spruck Wrigley, New Mexico, USA
This session will presents findings from several studies in adult literacy with a special emphasis on adult English language learners. We will present and discuss examples from the field that illustrate what works for teachers and learners and highlight those practices that match up with recent research results. Examples will include activities that engage learners and connect the classroom with language and literacy use in students’ lives. Video and audio will be used to illustrate multi-modal teaching, designed to deepen learning.
Join us at this and another Literacy Live forum on June 3.
Free South Australian Workshop
"Financial literacies"
Adelaide, Thursday, May 22, 2008
Financial Literacy Education experiences & stories, ANZ Financial Literacy Research, Financial Literacy, Food Security and determinants of health, Financial Tips and Safety Checks, What is the role of a Financial Counsellor? and ‘A practical approach to teaching financial literacy’ (Thebarton Senior College)
Free Northern Territory Workshops
Darwin (June 26) and Alice Springs (June 27)
ACAL is conducting a series of hands-on workshops in Darwin (June 26) and Alice Springs (June 27) at campuses of Charles Darwin University.
Debbie Soccio will show how to develop a digital story using Photo Story 3. Dave Tout will show how to engage all students in maths and numeracy.
The workshops are free courtesy of ACAL and DEEWR but registration is essential. More information and registration
ACAL Conference 2008 • ‘Surfing outside the flags: catching waves, avoiding rips’
Surfers Paradise on October 2 to 4, 2008
A Call for Presentations is open until June 10, 2008. More details ...
The conference title ‘Surfing outside the flags: catching waves, avoiding rips’ has been chosen to reflect the venue for the conference and also as a metaphor to raise issues and provoke debate. Conference themes include: Indigenous literacy & numeracy, vocational & workplace literacy & numeracy, meeting the literacy & numeracy needs of African refugees, numeracy, and community literacy.
The conference will be preceded on 2 October 2008 by a pre-conference forum 'Adult literacy, numeracy and lifelong learning: a cross-sectoral dialogue'.
The conference is for any person with an interest in, and concern for, adult literacy and numeracy in communities, workplaces, educational and training institutions, and governments. Conference participants may include adult literacy and numeracy researchers, adult literacy and numeracy teachers and other practitioners, vocational teachers and trainers, volunteer tutors, policy makers and tertiary students studying in the areas of literacy, numeracy and vocational training.
Keynote speakers include Noyona Chanda, Assistant Director Language and Literacy Unit at London Southbank University and Dr Hermine Scheeres, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney.
The conference will also include a number of seminars and workshops presented by practitioners, teachers and researchers. More details ...
The Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALLS) survey
Hear the ABC program 'The World Today' interview with Dave Tout about the survey, broadcast on Thursday, February 21, 2008
The results of this survey, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about the time of the Federal election in November 2007, continue to attract interest from many groups - including the media.
You can read the ACAL position paper Moving forward: Towards a Literate Australia (Jan 2008) (PDF 120KB).
You can also read the ABS summary of findings at the ABS web site, search on 'adult literacy' or use the code '4228.0'
(PDF 100KB) 'Adult literacy - a crucial part of the education revolution'
Moving forward: Towards a Literate Australia
(Jan 2008)
(PDF 120KB)
An ACAL Position Paper on the 2006 Adult Literacy and Lifeskills survey
….. and literacy beyond the classroom
ACAL’s approach to literacy as both lifelong and lifewide
(PDF 80KB)
Presented by Dr Pauline O'Maley to the ACAL Conference in New Zealand (Sept 2007)
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All documents are PDF format.
