THURSDAY 3 JUNE
Conference Opening
Session 1: 7:00pm - 9:00pm (AEST)
Conference Opening
Deb Price, President, ACSA
Bill Green, Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University introduced by Phil Robert, Executive Committee Member, ACSA
Bill Green, Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University facilitated by Phil Robert, Executive Committee Member, ACSA
Awarded by Deb Price, President, ACSA
Awarded by Natalie Polak, Executive Committee Member, ACSA
7:00-7:15pm
7:15-8:00pm
8:00-8:30pm
8:30-8:45pm
8:45-9:00pm
Welcome and introduction
Garth Boomer Memorial Address
Questions from delegates
Garth Boomer Award presentation
Colin Marsh Award presentation
FRIDAY 4 JUNE
Focus on equity and excellence and confident and creative and successful, lifelong learners.
Session 2: 9:00am - 11:00am (AEST)
Delegates select one elective from the four below to attend
Elective 1.
Curriculum scholarship: the importance of theoretical thinking to teacher practice.
9:00-9:45am
9:45-10:30am
10:30-11:00am
Perspectives on curriculum trends over the past 40 years and where we are headed now given globalizing circumstances.
Lagerphones and LLAC*: resources for reimagining an Australian curriculum
*Language and Literacy Across the Curriculum, a South Australian initiative led by Garth Boomer.
Questions from delegates.
Pat Thomson, Professor of Education, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
William Pinar, Tetsuo Aoki Professor in Curriculum Studies, University of British Colombia, Canada interviewed by Phil Roberts
William Pinar facilitated by Phil Roberts
Elective 2.
How do schools achieve equity AND excellence?
9:00-9:30am
9:30-10:00am
10:00-10:30am
10:30-11:00am
Global education and the skills young people need to thrive in work, life and as constructive citizens - giving voice to our most marginalised and silent young people.
Equity and what is happening in Australian classrooms? Islamic perspective.
Case study school: equity and excellence.
Questions from delegates.
Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Co-director, Centre for Universal Education, Brookings Institute, Washington, DC.
Dr Nadeem Memon, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Islamic thought and Education, University of South Australia.
TBA
TBA
Elective 3.
NAPLAN: where to from here?
9:00-9:30am
9:30-10:00am
10:00-10:30am
10:30-11:00am
The review into NAPLAN: what was the purpose?
NAPLAN: how equitable is it?
Case study: Kicking goals against all odds!
Questions from delegates.
TBA
Stewart Riddle, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
TBA
Stewart Riddle
Elective 4.
The power of learner profiles for senior secondary students.
9:00-9:30am
9:30-10:00am
10:00-10:30am
10:30-11:00am
Looking to the Future report: a summary, and what we've done about equity and excellence to create confident lifelong learners.
The Learner Journey project.
Case study: Beenleigh State High School Learner Journey.
Questions from delegates.
TBA
TBA
Matt O'Hanlon, Principal, Beenleigh SHS, QLD
Matt O'Hanlon
Session 3: 3:00pm - 5:00pm (AEST)
Delegates select one elective from the four below to attend
Elective 1.
Assessment data to inform learning.
3:00-3:30pm
3:30-4:00pm
4:00-4:30pm
4:30-5:00pm
Online Formative Assessment Initiative (OFAI): By teachers for teachers.
The current vision and lessons learnt from the past.
Case study: how we currently use data and the challenges we face.
Questions from delegates.
Deb Efthymiades, Chair, Online Formative Assessment Initiative Project Management Board.
TBA
TBA
Deb Efthymiades
Elective 2.
PISA: could Australian students be doing better?
3:00-3:30pm
3:30-4:00pm
4:00-4:30pm
4:30-5:00pm
What is the evidence from PISA about how Australian students are performing internationally and nationally?
Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment – a global perspective with local context
Case study: how we currently use data and the challenges we face.
Questions from delegates.
Sue Thomson, Deputy CEO, Australian Council for Education Research
Darryl Buchanan, Associate Chief Executive, Association of Independent Schools, NSW
TBA
Sue Thomson and Darryl Buchanan
Elective 3.
Creativity: ensuring its relevance for all learning areas.
3:00-3:30pm
3:30-4:00pm
4:00-4:30pm
4:30-5:00pm
Exploring the relationship between learning and creativity and the transformative role of the arts in education.
Design and implementation of whole school changes to support future ready learning.
Case Study: The Arts & Youth at Risk
Questions from delegates.
TBA
Nicole Dyson, Director, Future anything
Tahlia McGahey, Arcadia College, QLD
Nicole Dyson and Tahlia McGahey
Elective 4.
What about global competency? What do young people need to thrive in our world?
3:00-3:30pm
3:30-4:00pm
4:00-4:30pm
4:30-5:00pm
Globalisation and the importance of young people being global citizens.
Global competency in transition
Case study: global competency.
Questions from delegates.
Sandra Milligan, Assessment Research Centre of University of Melbourne, VIC
Hamish Curry, Executive Director, Asia Education Foundation
Karen Gorrie, St Margaret's Anglican Girls School, QLD
Sandra Milligan, Hamish Curry and Karen Gorrie
SATURDAY 5 JUNE
Focus on assessment, digital disruption and review of
Australian Curriculum.
Session 4: 10:00am - 12:00pm (AEST)
Delegates select one elective from the three below to attend
Elective 1.
Embracing technologies to support teaching and learning.
10:00-10:30am
10:30-11:00am
11:00-11:30am
11:30am-12:00pm
Leveraging AI: Opportunities and Challenges
Lessons for teachers from the Khan Academy.
Case study: using a robot to teach the local Indigenous language.
Questions from delegates.
Professor Rajesh Vasa, Head of Translational Research, Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University, VIC
Kristen DiCerbo, Chief Learning Officer, Khan Academy, California
TBA
Professor Rajesh Vasa and Kristen DiCerbo
Elective 2.
Adapting to change: creating a more inclusive, creative and productive system of learning.
Claire Wyatt-Smith, Director, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, ACU and
Bob Lingard, Professor, Institute of Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, ACU
TBA
The School of Now, NSW. Gavin Hays, Head of Contemporary Learning and Research
Bethany Centre, Parramatta and Steven Bauer
Claire Wyatt-Smith, Bob Lingard, Gavin Hays and Steven Bauer
10:00-10:30am
10:30-11:00am
11:00-11:30am
11:30am-12:00pm
Digital disruption in teaching and testing. Assessments, big data and the transformation of schooling.
What we learnt during the pandemic with a very large 'system'.
Case study school: virtual learning.
Questions from delegates.
Elective 3.
Australian Curriculum review: future directions.
10:00-10:30am
10:30-11:00am
11:00-11:30am
11:30am-12:00pm
The new Australian Curriculum: an overview of changes.
Indigenous perspective/ cross curriculum priorities.
Case study: trialing the new curriculum.
Questions from delegates.
David de Carvalho, CEO, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
TBA
Narelle Morris, Senior Mathematics Teacher, St James Lutheran College, QLD
David de Carvalho and Narelle Morris