VET/TAFE Theme
The first full day of the conference will include a VET/TAFE theme. On Tuesday the 7th of July one of the streams will host 2, two hour workshops:
- Strategies for survival - teaching students with low literacy and numeracy skills
- Employability skills
Strategies for Survival
Lindee Conway is currently the Northern Territory Manager for Language and Literacy, in the VET Sector or CDU. She is an experienced ESL, literacy and numeracy educator. She has taught refugees, ELICOS students, young people returning to formal study, and always had a preference for working with people with limited formal education. She is also a trained language, literacy and numeracy assessor, and an IELTS examiner.
Lindee has delivered PD for teachers and volunteers, nationally and internationally. Her workshop will focus on strategies for survival - and even satisfaction- for VET teachers working with clients with low literacy and numeracy skill. It will be practical and good fun.
Employability skills
Engaging with industry: the front-end of teaching practice Julie Hurrell, Teaching and Learning Advisor, Centre for the Development of VET Practice, Swinburne University of Technology TAFE.
The integration of *Employability skills* into teaching practice requires a partnership approach between teachers, individuals and workplaces. The Swinburne approach integrating the 'Employability Skills Passport' will be incorporated within a highly interactive *Conversation Cafe* style workshop.