March seminar 2023

Our first major event for 2023 will be the March seminar to be held on Saturday 4 March.

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge” – Albert Einstein

We begin 2023’s ‘Seasons of Learning’ program with a (belated) Summer shindig. So much of the recent discourse around and within education has focused (rightly) on highlighting issues with equity and outcomes for students, and conditions for teachers. This seminar seeks to have a conversation about what is at the heart of our professional life: the passion we have for our craft. By celebrating the bright and warm qualities that characterise Summer, our March Seminar will focus on what we find joyous about teaching English.

This event will be a face-to-face one but the keynote and one workshop in each session will be streamed. A second workshop will be filmed and made available after the event.

Program is now available and registrations are open. Workshop 10 Making Assessment Work for Students and Teachers in Essential English has been amended to Making Learning Work for Students and Teachers in Essential English

Intending participants should read NEW Procedures for Invoicing and Payment before completing the registration.

Links for streamed sessions will be emailed to online participants on Thursday 2 March.

When you register you will see a confirmation message on your screen. if you do NOT see this message it will indicate your registration has not come through. If in doubt, contact Trish by email adminofficer@etaq.org,au or by phone 0455 464 000

Changes to the program

As stated in the program not all workshops were expected to actually run twice. Offerings have now been rationalised and most workshops will be offered once only. Deletions from the program for first workshop session are:

8. Joy in grammar teaching with Pride and Prejudice

14. Thinking chains

15 Who says the IA1 can't be fun

16. "Drink to the general joy of the whole table": Finding Joy in EA Prep

Deletions for second session:

2. Confidence tricks - six sneaky ways to build confidence

3. Physicalisation in the English classroom

5. Choice in the middle school

6. Finding the humanity in Literature

7. English extension

9. The surprising levers of joy


 

Venue:Iona College
Venue Address:85 North Road, LINDUM
Starting:8:30 AM
Saturday 4th March 2023
Ending:1:00 PM
Email Enquiries: adminofficer@etaq.org.au

Upcoming Events

Grammar via zoom 23

This workshop will be presented via zoom to cater for those who cannot attend in person. Date: Saturday 25 March Time: 9 - 1pm Purpose: To assist attendees to develop their understanding of grammar in order to fully comprehend and to effectively teach the Australia Curriculum: English (AC:E). Elaboration: After a short ge...

Category: Workshop
Start Time: 9:00 AM
Date: Saturday 25th March 2023
Venue: Online
Email Enquiries:  adminofficer@etaq.org.au


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Category: Master class
Start Time: 8:30 AM
Date: Saturday 20th May 2023
Venue: John Paul College
Venue Address: Daisy Hill


Essential English CIA 2023

In response to requests from members, ETAQ is organising a Community of Practice to help with preparation for the Common Internal Assessment on Saturday 18 February 2023. We are excited to announce Lisa Smith, QCAA, will be providing the keynote address which will be live-streamed as will be the whole program. If you have some experie...

Category: Seminar
Start Time: 9:00 AM
Date: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Venue: St Joseph's, Nudgee College
Venue Address: 2199 Sandgate Road, BOONDALL 4034
Phone Enquiries: 0455 464 000
Email Enquiries:  adminofficer@etaq.org.au


State Conference 2023

State Conference in 2023 will be held on 19 August 2023.

Further details later

Category: State Conference
Start Time: 8:15 AM
Date: Saturday 19th August 2023
Venue: To be confirmed


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