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 Welcome to ALEA Victoria
ALEA Victoria has a State Executive and two Local Councils. Together we provide high quality professional development for teachers and work with members to achieve the best possible literacy learning outcomes for all students. We also aim to provide a forum for open debate on language and literacy issues and to critique policy, program and pedagogical initiatives in Victoria.



Our Services include:
  • Professional Development - a range of events is offered throughout the year, in both metropolitan and regional areas.
  • National Conference – hosted by a different State or Territory each year. More information can be found on the conference website

    Call for interested ALEA members to join the
    ALEA Victoria National Conference 2011 Planning Committee


  • Professional Conversation, Support and Advocacy – See our Frequently Asked Questions page. Local council committees meet on a regular basis to plan and organise professional development events and provide a focus for professional conversation. Members are most welcome to participate in meetings on a regular or irregular basis.



    Profesional Development 2009


    • Sharing the Literacy Journey
    Multiliteracies:
    Successful Strategies for all students
    The Victorian State multiliteracies conference was held on Friday 11th September, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne.

    Keynote Presenters:

    Dr Maureen O’Rourke - Multiliteracies - Successful Strategies for all students
    Maureen is executive director of EdPartnerships International. She has a long history of working with a very diverse range of students in specialist education settings, early childhood, primary and secondary settings. More recently she has been a partner in research collaborations that have explored multiliterate teaching and a contemporary view of literacy, to better cater for traditionally disadvantaged cohorts of students. 
    To find out more about SparkL and Maureen’s fascinating work check out this website: www.edpartnerships.edu.au

    Christopher Walsh - The multimodal redesign of school texts
    Dr. Christopher Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Educational ICT and Professional Development in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies of The Open University (UK). He has worked on several pedagogical initiatives in Australia, the USA and Afghanistan and conducted research on ‘Students’ Multiple Literacies in Diasporic Communities in New York City’s Chinatown’ (funded by the Spencer Foundation).
    To find out more about Chris’ amazing work check out his website at:
    http://sites.google.com/site/sharingtheliteracyjourney/
    c.s.walsh@open.ac.uk

    Dinner Speaker: Doug MacLeod
    Doug MacLeod is a Melbourne writer who divides his time between working in TV and making books. He has worked with some of Australia's best comedians, and in 2008 the Australian Writers Guild awarded him the prestigious Fred Parsons prize for Outstanding Contribution to TV Comedy writing. His television credits include script editor on the TV phenomenon Kath and Kim, scripts for SeaChange, Dogstar (which he co-devised) and just about every TV sketch comedy show to come out in the late eighties and nineties. His verse book, Sister Madge's Book of Nuns, is probably his best known book title, though he has lately turned to writing novels for children and young adults. For primary age readers he wrote Leon Stumble's Book of Stupid Fairytales and Spiky, Spunky, My Pet Monkey. For slightly older readers he wrote Tumble Turn, The Clockwork Forest, and I'm Being Stalked by a Moonshadow. (Show and Tell, 2009)
    To find out more about Doug’s fabulous work check out his website at: http://www.dougmacleod.com.au






    Celebrating Literacy Learning – some great articles to read

  • Language Experience Reading
  • Reading to Children in the Early Year's Classroom
  • Guided Thinking about Spelling
  • Spelling and how parents can help

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    ALEA Victoria 2009

    Page Last Updated: 29 September 2009


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