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25.01.2022 ALEA Riverina-Murray is excited to announce a series of online , workshops FREE for all ALEA members. Keep an eye on this page for details of each of the workshops that will be published here in the coming days. Which one will you choose?... Links in comments See more

24.01.2022 What a great little video that highlights the benefits of membership with ALEA. Have you become a member yet? Or is it time to renew your membership? Join now at the following link https://www.alea.edu.au/membershipinfo/about-membership

22.01.2022 Than you Georgina for a great online session last week. You had us all writing and thinking about writing instruction from the perspective of the learner. What a great session! Looking forward to learning more about teaching writing in secondary school at our next online session on Thursday.... Register online https://www.alea.edu.au//teaching-writing-for-secondary-st

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19.01.2022 ALEA Riverina Murray are looking forward to the next installment in our online PD series this THURSDAY. ALEA favourite Julie Shepherd: Using inquiry to investigate English spelling. Julie will be talking about exciting and engaging spelling instruction that reflects how the English writing system ACTUALLY works. ... This is for teachers who are interested in understanding the teaching of spelling beyond rote learning of words. We can't wait. Spaces still available. NESA accredited. Register online https://www.alea.edu.au//using-inquiry-to-investigate-Engl More details in the comments.

19.01.2022 A few members of our local area council were fortunate enough to attend a School Drama session with Dr John Saunders at last years National Conference in Melbourne. It was highly engaging and lots of fun! Hopefully this interview will inspire some of our amazing teachers to include drama in their repertoire of literacy teaching strategies.

18.01.2022 Reading Australia experts, education consultants, and now film stars, Wendy Bean and Phil Page are here to guide you through the Reading Australia website. Ther...e are two videos - one for primary teachers and the other for secondary English teachers. Click on the one appropriate to you to learn how to use Reading Australia in your classroom. For secondary teachers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CndrtdBCc4 For primary teachers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpESJwCJh2c

18.01.2022 The first of our online PD is this Thursday. Dialogic Pedagogies: Enabling productive talk in literacy lessons Associate Professor Christine Edwards Groves... 2 hours of NESA accredited hours (across both sessions). Free for ALEA members Register online & see you there. https://www.alea.edu.au/ev/event/dialogic-pedagogies-part-1

18.01.2022 This conversation is a lovely reminder of the importance or read alouds as a literacy strategy. Associate Professor Angela Wiseman shares some fantastic ideas for making this a more student-centred experience and an interactive transaction between our students and the text.

18.01.2022 Although our ALEA National Conference could not go ahead in Sydney this year, ALEA NSW has put together some fantastic presentations & interviews. We are excite...d to be able to connect our presenters with ALEA members and friends of ALEA. We will be hearing from Associate Professor Jioji Ravulo (AUS), Dr John Saunders (AUS), Associate Professor Angela Wiseman (USA) and Professor Julian Sefton-Green (UK) about their work. We will be broadcasting these presentations completely free of charge via the ALEA National Conference Facebook page and other ALEA Facebook pages, as well as the ALEA website each day from the 9th - 12th of July - Stay tuned! Feel free to share with your colleagues and friends!

17.01.2022 ATTENTION PRESERVICE TEACHERS!!! This PD session is available for free if you are an ALEA member or a very reasonable $10 for nonmembers. It comes at the perfect time for final year students who may be about to embark on their new careers as classroom teachers!

17.01.2022 ALEA members (individual, institutional and student) are invited to celebrate 2020 and plan for 2021. Come and enjoy a drink and some nibbles on us in appreciation of your continued support. P links in comments.

16.01.2022 It's October... and that means the last of our planned NESA accredited ZOOM workshops for 2020 is on. Next Thursday, ALEA Riverina Murray president, Associate Professor Noella Mackenzie, will present: Interactive writing in the ES1 and S1 classroom.... Part 1 Thursday 15th October 4 5pm Part 2 Thursday 22nd October 4- 5pm THIS COURSE IS FREE FOR ALEA MEMBERS (individual and institutional). $40 for non-members ($20 each 1 hour session). Register online: https://www.alea.edu.au//interactive-writing-in-es1-and-s1

15.01.2022 Professor Georgina Barton will be online again this week (Thursday 4pm) for the first in a 2 part series on Teaching Writing for Secondary students. Read more about Georgina's work here: http://www.georginabarton.com/ 2 X 1 hour workshops... NESA accreditation towards standard 2.5.2 FREE for ALEA members $20 per session for non-members All welcome Registration online https://www.alea.edu.au//teaching-writing-for-secondary-st See more

15.01.2022 The first of the National Conference presentations is here! Keep checking our page over the following days for other presentations as we will share them all for you.

14.01.2022 After the success of last week's workshops on dialogic pedagogies, we are getting excited to be hosting Professor Georgina Barton from the University of Southern Queensland. Preparing students for the transition to high school in writing. NESA accredited. Free for ALEA members ($40 for non-members). https://www.alea.edu.au//preparing-students-for-the-transi

14.01.2022 New comic! Critical Thinking This comic was made in collaboration with the OECD Center for Educational Research and Innovation in Paris, France.

13.01.2022 Celebrating reading at every age and stage

10.01.2022 Did you know that all of our online courses are NESA accredited? Completing our upcoming workshop "Preparing students for the transition to high school in writing" with Professor Georgina Barton will contribute 2 hours of accredited PD towards AITSL standard 2.5? Thursday 13th August 4 - 6pm via Zoom.... Suitable for all Stage 3 and 4 teachers. Free for ALEA members $40 for non-members. It is not too late to register: https://www.alea.edu.au//preparing-students-for-the-transi

10.01.2022 Thanks again Chris Edwards-Groves for your informative session for ALEA Riverina Murray this afternoon. What a great way to start our Zoom Series. Our n...ext sessions will be provided by Prof Georgina Barton. Georgina will focus on writing in upper primary and high school. Georgina will look at the critical transition from Year 6 to Year 7. These zoom sessions are being provided for free for ALEA members. Accreditation is available. This is our way of supporting teachers in what are very challenging times. If you want to know more about these sessions or ALEA membership do a search for ALEA Riverina Murray. We hope to see you there. Please share this information with anyone you think might be interested. Noella See more

07.01.2022 Here is the final presentation from this year's National Conference where Professor Julian Sefton-Green speaks about the role of play and technology in education. We hope these presentations have given you an insight into the amazing experience that the National Conference provides and hope to see some of our great local educators in Brisbane next year.

06.01.2022 What an awesome way to spend a rainy Thursday afternoon. Working with 35 other teachers online with the wonderful Professor Georgina Barton on teaching writing in Secondary school. My favourite part? Writing a response to this. Looking forward to next week's session.

04.01.2022 Excited to have part 2 of our discussion of Dialogic Pedagogies on Thursday with Chris Edwards-Groves. Chris started the discussion last week. If you were there... last week you will know how good the first session was. If you missed last week, but would like to join in this week, check out the registration process on the ALEA Riverina Murray fb page. These sessions are free for ALEA members. See more

04.01.2022 In next week's online PD, Professor Georgina Barton will discuss ways to support children's transition to high school in writing. Suited for all stage 3 and 4 teachers, Georgina will cover a range of approaches to teaching writing including learning by design, gradual release of responsibility and reflexive approaches to teaching writing. Georgina will also provide a range of resources for supporting the writing of different types of texts in a range of curriculum areas. Thur...sday 13th, 4 - 6pm Free for ALEA members. $40 for non-members. Places still available. Register online https://www.alea.edu.au//preparing-students-for-the-transi See more