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:
If you are able to register for the other days as well, note these highlights:
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