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SCHOOL TEACHER PARTICIPATION IN THE CONFERENCE

​Primary and secondary school teachers are encouraged to attend the whole conference but are particularly welcome to participate in the Saturday programme, at a special day registration rate of $185 (including lunch plus morning and afternoon teas).
 
The centrepiece is the Teachers’ Forum (Saturday 1.05 – 2.45 pm) where a number of practising teachers will raise assessment issues they face in their day-to-day work with English Language Learners. Researchers, language assessment specialists and Ministry of Education representatives will respond from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives, and there will the opportunity for follow-up discussion from the floor. The forum will be chaired by Maree Jeurissen, President of TESOLANZ.
 
In addition, there will be numerous presentations of relevance to teachers on Saturday, including:
 
  • The morning plenary talk by Ute Knoch (University of Melbourne): Measuring writing development: implications for research and pedagogy
  • Two strands of parallel sessions in the morning on Classroom-based assessment: Issues and practice (see the Programme tab for details)
 
 
If you are able to register for the other days as well, note these highlights:
 
  • The Friday morning plenary talk by Matthew Poehner (Pennsylvania State University): Dynamic Assessment and Vygotsky’s unrealized vision of developmental education
  • The Friday afternoon plenary talk by Peter Keegan (University of Auckland): Māori language testing and assessment in Aotearoa: Past, present and future prospects
  • The Thursday morning workshop by Matthew Poehner: Dynamic Assessment: Leveraging classroom activities to understand and support learner language development
  • The Thursday afternoon workshop by Barry O’Sullivan (British Council): Using free online resources to develop reading texts for classroom assessment