Excellence in Professional Practice Conference

Conference Program

Day 1: Sunday 17 March 2013

8.30am	Registration and Welcome Tea and Coffee/Exhibitors’ Expo
9.00 – 9.10am	Welcome Address
9.10 – 10.30am	Keynote 1 School Improvement through Evidence-based Practices Presenter: Professor Geoff Masters, CEO, ACER
10.30 – 11.00am	Morning Tea/Exhibitors’ Expo
Session 1 11.00 – 12.15pm	Doing it Our Way: Using the Australian Curriculum as a platform to transform literacy pedagogy in the Middle School Presenter: Sherrie Davis, Palm Beach Currumbin State High School, QLD
	Teaching the Australian Curriculum using Captioned Multimodal Texts and Audio Visual Resources Presenter: Anne McGrath, Media Access Australia, NSW
	Building Teacher Capacity to Embrace and Implement Change Presenter: Donna Evans, The Glennie School, QLD
	The Deadly Medley: Pooling our talents to embrace indigenous teachings Presenter: Evan Willis, Pullenvale State School, QLD
12.15 – 1.15pm	Lunch/Exhibitors’ Expo
Session 2 1.15 – 2.30pm	The World is My Classroom Presenter: Anne Mirtschin, Hawkesdale P12 College, VIC
	Challenge to Opportunity: A small school's journey through the Australian Curriculum Presenter: Naomi Meerwald, Darlington State School, QLD
	A New Curriculum: A new beginning Presenter: Yvonne Patterson, Gray Primary School, NT
	Meddling in the Middle: A teacher perspective Presenter: Linda Shardlow, Methodist Ladies College, VIC
Session 3 2.30 – 3.45pm Expert Presentations	ICT Capability: It's (not) about the device - When reality and expectation collide in the Australian Curriculum Presenter: Phil Callil, President, VITTA
	Creative and Critical Thinking across the Domains Presenter: Alma Tooke, Methodist Ladies College, VIC
	Numeracy: Contexts outside the Mathematics classroom Presenter: Cath Pearn, ACER
	Supporting development of Asia-relevant capabilities through the Australian Curriculum Presenters: Dr Eeqbal Hassim and Pamela Stewart, Asia Education Foundation
3.45 – 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea/Exhibitors’ Expo
4.00 – 5.00pm	Birds of a Feather Sessions/Exhibitors’ Expo
6.30pm (for) 7pm Start	Conference Dinner

Day 2: Monday 18 March 2013

8.30am	Welcome Tea and Coffee/Exhibitors’ Expo
9.00 – 10.30am	Keynote 2 Effective Teaching: Joining the dots between theory and practice Presenter: Dr Hilary Hollingsworth, Senior Research Fellow, ACER
10.30 – 11.00am	Morning Tea/Exhibitors’ Expo
Session 4 11.00 – 12.15pm Concurrent Sessions: Best Practice	Implementing the Australian Mathematics National Curriculum: A journey of innovation and reflection in shifting to a new paradigm Presenters: Stacey King and Erin Bolger, Mabel Park State High School, QLD
	Implementing the Australian National Curriculum in Remote Indigenous Schools Presenter: Sarah Greenhatch, Woorabinda State School, QLD
	Using National Teaching Standards to Drive Curriculum Development Presenters: Daniel Buttacavoli and Sean Collins, Emmanuel College, VIC
	Implementing the Australian Curriculum using Effective and Innovative Early Years Pedagogy Presenter: Anne Pearson, Mango Hill State School, QLD
12.15 – 1.15pm	Lunch/Exhibitors’ Expo
Session 5 1.15 – 2.30pm Concurrent Sessions: Best Practice	Developing Professional Practice through Triads Presenter: Alanna Hawthorne-Smith and Helen Bezzina, Thomastown Meadows Primary School, VIC
	QAR: The language of Understanding Presenters: Angela Brennan and Kirsty Edwards, Edge Hill State School, QLD
	Implementing the Australian Curriculum using an Instructional Framework Presenter: Mike O’Connor, Mabel Park State High School, QLD
	A Dramatic Improvement Presenters: Tracy Cronin, Belinda Berrington and Jim Green, Mount Ommaney Special School, QLD
2.30 –3.30pm	Keynote 3: Closing Address Our National Curriculum: Overview, updates and teacher support Presenter: Robert Randall, CEO, ACARA