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The NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council is the peak professional body representing teachers, workers and others interested in the field of adult literacy and numeracy. It was established in the late 1970s and is affiliated with the Australian Council of Adult Literacy ACAL).
2011 NSW ALNC Conference
Program - Register now
Friday December 9
The NSW Adult Literacy and Numeracy Council annual conference will be held in partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney.
The conference will feature keynote addresses by -
• Joe Lo Bianco, Professor of Language and Literacy Education from the University of Melbourne, author of the 1987 National Policy on Languages; and
• John Falzon, CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council and social justice advocate
Seminar NSW ALNC 2011
'Engaging low-level adult learners both on and off-campus'
Desiree O'Regan, Marian Koo, Jenny Kelly and Lynne Robson
Thursday 15 September, 2011 at UTS, Building 10, Level 5, Room 580
This presentation gave a snapshot of various means used to address
the language and literacy needs of low-level learners both on and off-
campus in the Lidcombe / Auburn area.
Teaching is an artful blend of a variety of methods. There is seldom one
best method. This presentation is about some teachers’ journey into
exploring different ways of maximising student learning and developing
students into self-directed learners.
See photos, listen to the keynote addresses, and access many of the presentations from the 2010 ACAL Conference hands up... hands on... ACAL held its annual conference in Darwin this year, attracting some 200 participants from all states and territories and Timor Leste. .
Numeracy teaching - value free and culture free?
Dave Baker, Reader in Numeracy and post-16 Numeracy at the London Institute of Education in the UK, was a keynote speaker at the ACAL Conference in Fremantle last year. Baker's presentation "What counts, who counts; developing understandings of numeracy teaching from international and cross cultural experiences", is available online.
It sounds so obvious, but maybe if we start numeracy teaching with what adult students actually know, they may better understand some of the more difficult aspects of numeracy.
Dave Baker’s work in developing understandings of numeracy teaching from international and cross cultural experiences leads him to argue for seeing numeracy as social practice, rather than a more abstract and theoretical approach, or from a deficit model.