Professional Development

See the Calendar of Events for details about activites currently scheduled and how to register.

To register for updates about changes and new workshops as they are scheduled, click here for Membership of LLN email group and mailing list .

The Department provides opportunities for staff teaching literacy and numeracy to adults to maintain the currency of their qualifications and build on their skills base. These opportunities include:

Sponsorship Program
CGEA Workshops
ABC of Two Way Learning
Read Write Now! Program
Online collaboration

Sponsorship Program

This program assists individual adult literacy and numeracy practitioners who live and work in Western Australia to access workshops, conferences and courses that give them new professional skills and improve the service they deliver to students.

Practitioners can make applications for funding to help with travel and other costs associated with attending events within the state or in other states.

The program was set up to help practitioners who live and work in regional and remote areas and who could be doubly disadvantaged by both geographical and professional isolation.

The program is now available to all practitioners but the selection criteria continue to be weighted in favour of those who would find it more difficult, more time-consuming and more costly to access professional development events or activities. Further information and an application form is available below

• Information for Applicants PDF
• Application Form
• Application Form PDF

You are welcome to call Cheryl Wiltshire on (08) 9319 5515 to discuss your application or send an email to cheryl.wiltshire@dtwd.wa.gov.au

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CGEA Workshops

The Department offers a range of workshops for CGEA practitioners. Some of these are focussed on the CGEA, some have a more generic focus on teaching either literacy or numeracy or English as a second dialect to adult students.

Workshops include:

• Introduction to the CGEA Part I (for teachers new to the CGEA)
• Introduction to the CGEA Part II
• Resource Sharing
• Making the most of Multi-Level Groups
• Students as Publishers
• Writing Process - Getting Started
• Report Writing
• Teacher's Toolbox
• Assessment in a test free zone
• Disability Discrimination Act for LLN Teachers
• Using MYLO (Maximise your Learning Opportunities)
• ABC of Two-Way Literacy and Learning

Call Cheryl Wiltshire on (08) 9319 5515 if you would like to suggest a time or location for a workshop. See the professional development calendar on VetInfoNet for events currently scheduled.

Online collaboration

The Department also uses a number of online collaborative tools so adult literacy and numeracy teachers can continue to learn and share outside of formal face to face workshops. See the CGEA page for further information about Elluminate web conferencing sessions and accessing our Google Groups.

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