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Locality: Devonport, Tasmania

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24.01.2022 Great job Hobart Library, Liz, and the other nine readers at todays reading hour.

24.01.2022 Free webinar: How to Boost Attendance and Engagement in Virtual Class Meetings. Please note this is based in the US. The time noted is 4pm Monday which is 9am Tuesday for us here in Tasmania. Notes from Speaker John Spencer: Educator Expertise: Beginning to Emerging Description: It can be downright defeating when you lead a virtual class meeting and nobody shows up. Other times, you ask a question and theres an awkward silence. In this webinar, we cover specific strategies ...for improving attendance in optional class meetings and how to make all of your virtual meetings more engaging and interactive. I cover this topic in-depth in the upcoming professional development course on empowering students in distance learning. Cost: Free Register: You can find the registration link here. https://event.webinarjam.com/register/1/w8q16fo See more

22.01.2022 Go to the ACAL website to register for this free PD event - a joint project between ACAL and NCVER http://acal.edu.au/acal-webinar

22.01.2022 Tasmanians can now learn to help others build their literacy and numeracy skills for free and online. TasTAFE is introducing the course that will give you the skills to become an adult literacy tutor. Cost: FREE for Tasmanians Where: Online When: Monday 27 April - Friday 3 July, 2020... What: An interactive course delivered over ten weeks. Expect to study up to ten hours a week. Who: TasTAFE Register your interest: www.tastafe.tas.edu.au//cour/tutor-adult-literacy-learners See more

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Lucy Whitehead, co-President of TCAL, Tasmania Works, and Geeveston Community Centre for bringing more reading, writing, and maths support to Huon Valley businesses.

21.01.2022 : Do you want your driver licence but not passing the test? No worries! 26TEN member, Libraries Tasmania, can help. Questions ca...n be read out and explained in a way that makes sense to you. Adult learner, Sam has passed the test. She loves the freedom driving gives her! You can do it too Call 1300 00 2610 or visit www.26ten.tas.gov.au #26TEN #AdultLiteracy #workingtogether George Town Library See more

21.01.2022 Today was the first meeting of the Steering Committee for our Workforce Development Project, funded by Skills Tasmania. Sam Waterhouse from Stenning is the lead consultant and Sian Midgley is TCAL Project Coordinator. We will be speaking with you SOON

20.01.2022 Have you read 26TEN's Review? Find it here: https://26ten.tas.gov.au/resources/SiteAssets/index.html

20.01.2022 All is forgiven, time to borrow borrow those big novels again.

19.01.2022 TCAL Networking Event If you have wanted to meet some others in the ALN field this is a great way to kick off the year with an informal gathering. Do you have a colleague who may be interested in joining TCAL? Why not ask them to come along! Date: Friday, 7th February, 2020 Location: Glenorchy Library... *New Time*: 5-6pm RSVP: Thursday 6th Feb - for catering purposes See more

18.01.2022 Calls to the Reading Writing Hotline have increased by 30% during COVID. Fran Kelly, from RN Breakfast, interviewed Vanessa Iles, the RWH manager, yesterday.

18.01.2022 Happy International Literacy Day!

16.01.2022 FREE professional development opportunity in Launceston and Hobart. Empowering personalised learning in diverse classrooms through education technology. Click here for a video showing Greg OConnor and Fiona Thomas thoughts and passion: https://drive.google.com//1JMfO71szULtQ1fpofpzy9pfcV1/view Click here to book Launceston 24th March, 9am-3pm: https://mautic.texthelp.com/row-edu---launceston-tasmania-h... Click here to book Hobart Thursday 26th March, 9am-3pm: https://mautic.texthelp.com/row-edu---hobart-tasmania-hoste See more

16.01.2022 The winning quiz night team. Enjoy the chocolate.

16.01.2022 A deeply passionate and vibrant group of Tasmanias adult literacy practitioners met yesterday for our annual conference. At the appealing, spacious and well designed Bridgewater Library the conversation, learning, exchanging, meeting new friends was bubbling and full of energy, the perfect counterpoint to the silvery, wet day outside. Here are some images. ... Many thanks to Lucy Whitehead, Julia Goss, and Josie Chapman, our organising group. Thanks also to Bridgewater Library for providing the venue. They also organised Fridays Mini-Quiz at the Hope and Anchor. I heard it was great fun and also perhaps somewhat competitive (read very competitive). We are doing some more posts with details :) 26TEN - Tasmanias campaign for adult literacy Tasmanian Council for Adult Literacy - TCAL

15.01.2022 Kids staying home? Here are about 20 days free resources from Scholastic! https://www.scholastic.com//scholastic-learn-at-home--free

15.01.2022 Hello peops of kindness and energy, dignity and I can. This. (BTW.) #100PercentLiteracy #ExecutiveOfficer

14.01.2022 Changes to times and notification of venues The AGM will be held from 10 - 11.30 and there will be no strategic planning session. HOBART VENUE: Morris Miller Room, Level 3, State Library Building, 91 Murray Street... LAUNCESTON VENUE: Meeting Room 4, Level 2, Launceston Library, Civic Square

14.01.2022 This year's Adult Learning Week theme is 'Renew You'. "Our theme is all about the positive impact of learning (upskilling or whatever you want to call it). It's about how education can help people navigate tricky times both socially and economically. Help us make a difference... People need access to education, learning and training at every stage of their lives so they can build skills and knowledge, fulfil their own potential and contribute effectively in their communities." For more information including promotions and prizes, see the ALW website: https://adultlearnersweek.org/

13.01.2022 The Centre for Social Impact (CSI) has a great selection of free webinars Impact2020. See the link below for more information. http://impact2020.online/program/

13.01.2022 Congratulations Iona Johnson on winning the #TogetherWeInspire award for Adult Learning and thank you for your dedicated work. We are glad you also support #TCAL.

13.01.2022 Deborah Stroh-Reilly, our President, was MC. She first introduced Tyenna Hogan, a young Muwinia woman. She gave a moving welcome to country. Then Deborah shared some recent wins for the sector: TCALs $145,000 grant to develop a workforce development plan for adult literacy practitioners; and @TasTAFE TasTAFEs decision to make their online literacy tutor training (Teaching Adult Literacy Learners - TALL) freely available to all Tasmanians (first intake April next year). When... more details are known well publish them in our monthly e-newsletter. Later Debra Guntrip, a workplace adult literacy specialist based at TasTAFE in Devonport, called in on the way home from the State Training Awards. She is a finalist in the Australian Training Awards (the peak, national awards for the vocational education and training (VET) sector) in the category Excellence in Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) Practice Award. This award recognises innovation and excellence by an individual involved in improving LLN skills in an educational, community or workplace context. She has worked exclusively on 26TEN - Tasmanias campaign for adult literacy workplace literacy grants in recent years. These are signs of some of the impact the 26TEN Strategy and Campaign as it gathers together so many people to work together to improve adult literacy and numeracy levels in Tasmania. @26TEN, Tasmanian Council for Adult Literacy - TCAL

12.01.2022 Looking for something to do tomorrow night? Come along to our quiz night.

11.01.2022 Learn about spelling theory from Jan Hagston and more at the Tasmanian Council for Adult Literacy - TCAL conference next weekend, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September. Everyone is welcome.

10.01.2022 This years Adult Learning Week theme is Renew You. "Our theme is all about the positive impact of learning (upskilling or whatever you want to call it). Its about how education can help people navigate tricky times both socially and economically. Help us make a difference... People need access to education, learning and training at every stage of their lives so they can build skills and knowledge, fulfil their own potential and contribute effectively in their communities." For more information including promotions and prizes, see the ALW website: https://adultlearnersweek.org/

10.01.2022 Some interesting points in this article, lets have a discussion. What do you think?

07.01.2022 An excellent reminder of the benefits of reading every day-for adults and children!

07.01.2022 Lets get this quiz started!

05.01.2022 A great opportunity to have your plain English questions answered by Mel Roome from Hit Send.

05.01.2022 Join an online policy conversation hosted by TasCOSS around engaging with education.Join the conversation and share your experience of the challenges and opportunities in building and maintaining engagement with education. For more info and registration: https://www.tascoss.org.au//policy-conversations-engaging/

04.01.2022 Welcome to Government House for 26 ten week.

03.01.2022 Literacy and numeracy support is available in Geeveston with Lucy Literacy! ;)

02.01.2022 Congratulations from all of us on your most well-deserved Australian Training Awards 2019 award for Excellence in Language Literacy and Numeracy Practice.

02.01.2022 ALA webinar this Wednesday. Free for members. https://ala.asn.au/ala-webinar-adults-lifelong-learning-th/

01.01.2022 Online resources-which are your favourites? Please comment below! Heres a handy one. Theres a maths section, too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/skillswise/english/zjg4scw