Excellence in Professional Practice Conference 2015 Conference Timetable Day 1: Thursday 21 May 2015 8.30am Registration and Welcome Tea and Coffee/Exhibitors’ Expo 9.00 – 10.30am Welcome Keynote 1 – Professor Geoff Masters AO, CEO, ACER 10.30 – 11.00am Morning Tea (networking, exhibitors’ expo) Using feedback to build a growth mindset – a whole school initiative (45 minutes) Dr Jane Mitchell, Charles Sturt University Session 1 11.00 – 12.30pm Feedback: Focus on creating critical reflection capability in students (30 minutes) Mrs Christine Hills, Gladstone State High School, Qld Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach! (45 minutes) Mrs Jane Denny, Catholic Schools Office: Broken Bay Using formative assessment to help South Asian Ethnic Minority students learn Chinese as a second language (30 minutes) Dr Zhihui Kou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Technology, evidence based assessment and learning for all in Maths (45 minutes) Mr Paul Sheedy, St Paul's Primary School, Vic. Using data from the Mathematics Assessment Interview (MAI) to improve ‘first wave’ instruction (30 minutes) Mrs Bianca Witney, Catholic Schools Diocese of Broken Bay From acquisition to mastery: How reading profiles impact on outcomes for struggling students (45 minutes) Mrs Susan Woolfenden, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta Navigating the Literacy Learning Journey from Early Years to Year 3 and Beyond (30 minutes) Ms Evelyn Terry, School Academic Support Services, Qld Using Assessment Data to Improve Reading Comprehension Instruction and Evaluate its Effectiveness (45 minutes) Ms Julia Blakey, St Mark's Primary School, Vic. Teacher Judgements in Maths – A Functional Data Base (30 minutes) Ms Michaela Wright, Schools Development Group, WA Session 2 1.30-3.00pm 12.30 – 1.30pm Session 3 3.30- 4.30 pm 3.00 – 3.30pm Lunch (networking, exhibitors’ expo) Adopting a Growth Mindset: Using Student Data to Improve Learning Outcomes in Mathematics (Workshop, 90 minutes) Mrs Kimberley Morgan, St. Monica's Primary School, Vic. A reading mission accomplished: how a focus on research, evidence and ‘task predicts performance’ achieved the greatest growth in reading (Workshop, 90 minutes) Ms Linda Fox, DECD, SA Putting Faces to the Data: Empowering students to engage with their learning (Workshop, 90 minutes) Ms Sheri Evans, Medina Primary School, WA Empowering Local Learners: A pre-school to secondary approach to improving executive functioning through a mathematics lens (Workshop, 90 minutes) Mr Shane Loader, Port Augusta / Quorn Partnership, DECD, SA Why Does He Keep Doing That!?!? Utilising Functional Behaviour Assessments (Workshop, 90 minutes) Ms Aurora Alonzo, Woodbury Autism Education and Research, NSW Afternoon Tea (networking, exhibitors’ expo) Learning without limits: a developmental approach to learning and assessment (30 minutes) Mrs Heather De Blasio, Wilderness School, SA Teachers Teaching Teachers: Creating a Sustainable In-House Professional Development Program (30 minutes) Mrs Amy Dugre, The Willows Community School, California, USA A Read on the Data: Rethinking the use of data to close the skills gaps of readers left behind (30 minutes) Mr Neil Lloyd, Brisbane Youth Education and Training Centre, QLD Using Data to Target Low Growth in Writing (30 minutes) Mr Matthew Smith, Mount St. Joseph Girls' College, Vic Using teacher designed online assessments to drive differentiated instruction in mathematics (30 minutes) Mr Anthony Speranza, St Mark's Primary School, Vic. Influences and Benefits of Mobile Cloud Learning (MCL) Toward Enhancing Learning Process And Evaluation of Learners’ Learning (30 minutes) Mr Al-Maktari, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia Getting REEL: Richardson Engaging Effective Learning - Using High Impact Instructional Strategies to improve student outcomes (30 minutes) Kristy Grady, Richardson Primary School, ACT Bringing Data to Life (30 minutes) Ms Brenda Little, Beenleigh State High School, Qld The Year 10 Book Project: Improving motivation and achievement through publishing (30 minutes) Ms Shelley Davidow, Noosa Pengari Steiner School, Qld Session 4 4.30 -5.30 pm Levers for change: Leading professional practice for improved literacy performance (30 minutes) Mr Ivan Baker, Chifley College Shalvey Campus, NSW 5.30pm Learning More about Feedback from Education and Neuroscience Professor John Hattie, Melbourne Educational Research Institute at The University of Melbourne, and Professor Pankaj Sah, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland Networking Drinks, exhibitors’ expo Conference Timetable Day 2: Friday 22 May 2015 8.30am Registration and Welcome Tea and Coffee/Exhibitors’ Expo Session 1 9.00 -10.30 am Innovation: Collaboration for growth in student performance (45 minutes) Ms Lesley Gardner, Xavier High School, NSW Bridging Spoken and Written Narratives (35 minutes) Mr Matt Thomson, Charles La Trobe College, Vic. Assessment reform in STAGE 5 and judgement of student achievement towards RoSA (45 minutes) Mr Tim Bordado, Sarah Redfern High School, NSW VALID: Validating school based assessments using online, on demand multimedia assessment tools for Years 6 to 10 (45 minutes) Miss Joanne Sim, Department of Education & Communities, NSW Facilitating teachers to use performance-based assessments through the formation of professional learning communities across schools (30 minutes) Professor Derek Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong How Strong is Your School as a Professional Community? (45 minutes) Dr Lawrence Ingvarson, ACER Getting data to teachers to change teaching programs - a schools journey (45 minutes) Mr Matthew O’Brien, Brisbane Boys' College, Qld The proof of the o-MLit is in the testing (30 minutes) Dr Kellie Buckley-Walker, University of Wollongong, NSW 10.30 – 11.00am Morning Tea (networking, exhibitors’ expo) Session 2 11.00 -12.30pm Tickling a sleeping dragon: How adjusting and aligning testing and curriculum can maximise success in Mathematics (30 minutes) Ms Sally Harris, Presbyterian Ladies' College,Vic. Elaborating responses to fraction assessment tasks reveals students' algebraic thinking (45 minutes) Ms Cath Pearn, ACER It’s in my hands - a student based approach to assessment (45 minutes) Mrs Dena Reddan, St. Therese Primary School, Vic. From hindsight to foresight: Investigating data strategies to improve student learning (30 minutes) Mr Timothy O’Leary, Wesley College, Vic. Using an evidence informed approach and instructional rounds to lead accelerated whole-school scale change (45 minutes) Mrs Catherine Cox-Walliss, Mount Barker South Primary School, SA What Classroom Assessment Techniques Make the Difference? (35 minutes) Ms Melanie Clark, Dardanup Primary School, WA ‘Being the Best Learner You Can Be’ A Mind, Brain & Education Program in Operation (45 minutes) Ms Donna Nitschke, DECD, SA Using Manipulatives and Guided Discovery Lesson to Assess and Improve Teaching and Learning Year 9 Mathematics: A Lesson Study (30 minutes) Mrs Masjuwita Puteh, Rimba II Secondary School, Brunei Empirical evidence that supports changes to pedagogical practice and tracks learning gains in contemporary and technology-enabled learning environments (45 minutes) Mr Terry Byers, Anglican Church Grammar School, Qld Using assessment data to close the gap between student achievement in investigation tasks and tests and examinations at the Australian Science and Mathematics School (30 minutes) Dr Bronte Nicholls, Australian Science and Mathematics School, SA 12.30 1.30pm Lunch (networking, exhibitors’ expo) I've got the power in Auslan (Workshop, 90 minutes) Miss Heulwen Sweet, Charles La Trobe P-12 College, Vic Session 3 1.30 -3.00 pm Activating student voice - accelerating improvement (Workshop, 90 minutes) Mrs Deb O’Neill, Gilles Street Primary School, SA Transforming your Pedagogy through the Purposeful Use of Data (Workshop, 90 minutes) Mrs Tania Leach, Education Queensland, Qld Maximising Student Success in senior secondary education (Workshop, 90 minutes) Ms Jan Raymond, SACE Board of South Australia, SA Using technology to promote formative assessment in secondary mathematics: Advantages for teachers and learners (Workshop, 90 minutes) Mr Roger Wander, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Vic. 3.00 – 3.30pm Afternoon Tea (networking, exhibitors’ expo) Sessio n 4 3.30 -5.00 pm Achieving and Sustaining Improvement in Mathematics Teaching (45 minutes) Mr Rob Proffitt-White, DET, QLD Obtaining reliable feedback from your students about your teaching (30 minutes) Mr Ed Roper, Brisbane Grammar School The Progressive Capacity Matrices (Workshop, 90 minutes) Mr Anton Reiter, Effective Curriculum Ideas, Vic. Re-conceptualising entrepreneurial learning and assessment within general capabilities in the Australian curriculum - Innovative approach to learning and teaching for the future (30 minutes) Dr Shantha Liyanage, DEC, NSW Pushing the creative boundaries in student assessment (30 minutes) Mrs Catherine Eppen-Van Der Aa, Mandurah Baptist College, WA Teaching with GeoGebra versus Traditional Method (30 minutes) Dr Pellumb Kllogjeri, University of Elbasan, Albania Everything is Formative! Creating a culture of peer and self-assessment in Workplace Maths (45 minutes) Mr Mark Sivills, Don College, Tas. Conference Timetable Session 1 11.00 – 12.30pm Day 3: Saturday 23 May 2015 8.30am Welcome Tea and Coffee Tea (networking, exhibitors’ expo) 9.00 – 10.30am Keynote 2 – Professor Jennifer Gore,.University of Newcastle, NSW 10.30 –11.00am Morning Tea (networking, exhibitors’ expo) Using the Quality Teaching Model as a pedagogical framework to improve assessment tasks (45 minutes) Peter Clayden, Canberra College, ACT Working together to enhance teacher education: A collaborative project between Queensland College of Teachers and Queensland Deans of Education (30 minutes) Deanne Commins, Queensland College of Teachers Kaleidoscope landscape: Reframing our approach to teacher growth and development (45 minutes) Dr Liz Criddle, St Stephen's School, WA Learning Walks & Watching Others Work (30 minutes) Ms Judith King, Department of Education, WA Low-SES meets high expectations. A research-led approach to successful student research (45 minutes) Ingrid Lees, Parafield Gardens High School, SA Sleep for Wellbeing and Academic Performance (45 minutes) Mr McIlrath, Rhinomed and Camberwell South Primary School Flipping the Textbook (30 minutes) Matthew Cunnane, Noosa Pengari Steiner School, Qld Instructional Practices Inventories: Quantifying and improving students’ cognitive engagement – Case studies of 3 Sydney high schools (30 minutes) Ms Sabreena Taylor, Teacher Training Australia, NSW 12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch (networking, exhibitors’ expo) 1.30 – 2.30pm Panel session: How to plan and conduct your school-based research 2.30 – 3.00pm Awards and Closing Address
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