What are you doing for PD this month
Pick one thing a month, or add favourites!
MOOCs, webinars, conferences, article discussion groups, Twitter chats…anything related to ELT PD is fine but please:
- respect the limitations of our time zones/region
- do not use for self-promotion unless there is clear relevance to this community
NB: This calendar is crowd-sourced by the #AusELT community, and all events either take place online at a realistic time, or within Australia and New Zealand. For a calendar of ELT conferences and events around the world (curated by Tyson Seburn), click here.
For past events, see below
2016
January 2016
10 January - 14 February 2016
Electronic Village Online EVO 2016: Five weeks of free PD for English language teachers
Mostly asynchronous, so time zone differences don't have much of an impact.
Courses on: Young learners, Moodle, Copyright, Pronunciation, and lots more.
Register from 3-10 January: http://evosessions.pbworks.com
April 2016
7-10 April 2016
ACAL-ACTA Conference 2016 (Australian Council of Adult Literacy and Australian Council of TESOL Associations)
Diversity: Exchanging ways of being
Perth, Western Australia
May 2016
12-13 May 2016
2016 NEAS Management Conference
Open Source Thinking - out of the box
Sydney, NSW
14 May 2016
UECA/NEAS PD Fest - University English Centres Australia UNSWIL, Sydney
July 2016
14 – 17 July 2016
CLESOL 2016 - 15th National Conference for Community Languages and ESOL
TESOLANZ (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Aotearoa New Zealand) and CLANZ (Community Languages Association New Zealand).
Learners in Context: Bridging the Gaps
The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
September 2016
21-23 September 2016
English Australia Conference
Hobart, Tas
November 2016
19 November 2016
UECA PD Fest - University English Centres Australia
(venue TBC)
2015
December 2015
[No #AusELT Twitter chat in December]
3–5 December 2015
Excellence in Language Instruction: Supporting Classroom Teaching & Learning: a TESOL International Association Regional Conference
National Institute of Education, Singapore
9–11 December 2015
ALS 2015 Conference - the 46th annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
Western Sydney University, Parramatta NSW
November 2015
3 November 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
Voted topic
9-15 November 2015
- AusELT/English Australia Journal Article Discussion Group
2-8 November (Reading time) and 9-15 November (Discussion time)
http://auselt.com/2015/10/21/auseltenglish-australia-journal-article-discussion-group-voting-page/
17-18 November 2015
- Prof Fred Dervin Leading academic on intercultural competence at Macquarie University, Sydney
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/81f8d038-fbcb-4b15-b401-2cf9a7df7ce0/1facec85c1079674
19-21 November 2015
- 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing: Learning to Write for Academic Purposes
'Learning to write for academic purposes: Advancing theory, research and practice'
Auckland, New Zealand
http://sslw.asu.edu/2015/
20 November 2015
- Transforming through Praxis: Students from Refugee Backgrounds in Higher Education
University of Newcastle
http://createsend.com/t/j-2F89DE063C5AA147
21 November 2015
- UECA PD Fest 2015 - University English Centres Australia
Victoria University, Melbourne
http://www.ueca.edu.au/pdfest2015-melbourne/
23-26 November 2015
- 4th International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity (LED 2015)
University of Auckland, New Zealand
https://led.education.auckland.ac.nz/
25-27 November, 2015
- 12th Biennial Conference of the Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL)
'Critical Intersections'
Wollongong, NSW
http://www.aall2015uow.com/
30 November - 2nd December 2015
- Combined conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ) and Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ)
‘Learning in a multilingual world’
Adelaide
https://www.conveneit.com/secure/onsite/linguistics_dec_15/
October 2015
8 October 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
Conference/PD wrap up (swapshop)
September 2015
3 September 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
LGBTQIA issues in course-books and classrooms
23-25 September 2015
- English Australia Conference 2015 - ‘Looking ahead: change challenge and opportunity'
23-25 September 2015 Brisbane
http://www.eaconference.com.au/
24-25 September 2015
- ACAL Conference 2015 - 'Resilience, Risk, Preservation' (Australian Council for Adult Literacy)
24th and 25th September 2015 at the Adelaide Zoo
http://www.acal.edu.au/
August 2015
6 August 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
Mobile language learning: Moving from ‘why’ to ‘how’, with guest moderator Mark Pegrum
July 2015
2 July 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
3-6 July 2015
- AATE/ALEA National Conference 2015 - Canberra, ACT
Australian Association for the Teaching of English and the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association
'CAPiTALiSiNG ON CURiOSiTY: 'ninggi warrguu'- look and ask why - Nurturing Inquiring Minds'
http://www.englishliteracyconference.com.au/
June 2015
4 June 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
“Getting Away from Grammar” with Daniel Midgley
May 2015
2 May 2015
- UECA PD Fest 2015 - University English Centres Australia
Sydney
http://www.ueca.edu.au/pdfest2015/
7-8 May 2015
- NEAS Management Conference 2015
Darling Island, Sydney
http://www.neas.org.au/media-centre/conferenceevents/
14-15 May 2015
- National Adult Language, Literacy and Numeracy and Assessment Conference 2015
Adelaide
http://www.acer.edu.au/nallnac
April 2015
29 April 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
Group work
Transcript: https://storify.com/SophiaK/transcript-of-auselt-twitter-chat-30-4-2015-group-
2 April 2015
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#AusELT Twitter chat
App smashing (slowburn)
Intro & set-up: http://auselt.com/2015/03/23/april-2015/
Summary: https://storify.com/sujava/app-sharing
March 2015
21 March 2015
- English Australia PD Fest 2015
Brisbane
5 March 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
New to Twitter? (& practical swapshop)
Summary: http://auselt.com/2015/03/04/mixed-feelings-about-twitter/
February 2015
5 February 2015
- #AusELT Twitter chat
voted topic - see Facebook group
January 2015
29-30 January 2015
- Teaching and Learning Forum 2015
The University of Western Australia, The University Club
Theme: Teaching and Learning Uncapped
http://wand.edu.au/course/view.php?id=21
12 January - 15 February
- Electronic Village Online EVO 2015: Five weeks of free PD for English language teachers
Mostly asynchronous, so time zone differences don't have much of an impact.
Courses on: Young learners, Moodle, Copyright, Pronunciation, and lots more.
Register from 5-11 January.
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/10708567/FrontPage
2014
December 2014
NB: No #AusELT Twitter chat in December
8th-9th December 2014
- Workshop at Macquarie University: "The Role of Prosody in Language Learning: Stress, Tone and Intonation"
5th December 2014
- Pronunciation Symposium: New directions in pronunciation theory and practice
University of NSW, Canberra, 8:30-4:30, Friday 5 December
http://media.unsw.adfa.edu.au/events/pronunciation-symposium/ - Handouts available for download by AALL members: http://aall.org.au/forum/handouts-2nd-pronunciation-symposium
November 2014
5th
- #AusELT Twitter chat
October 2014
2nd
- #AusELT Twitter chat
September
30th Sept - 3rd Oct
- Australian Council of TESOL Associations - ACTA International Conference, Melbourne
http://tesol.org.au/ACTA-Conference/ACTA-International-Conference-2014
17th-19th
- English Australia Conference, Melbourne
http://www.englishaustralia.com.au/english_australia_conference.html
4th
- #AusELT Twitter chat
August 2014
22nd-23rd
- TESOL Research Network Colloquium 2014 - University of Sydney
http://sydney.edu.au/education_social_work/news_events/events/2014/Semester-Two/TESOL-research-colloquium.shtml
12th
- Jack Richards lecture at Macquarie University
"What Does It Take To Be An English Language Teacher? Exploring Teacher Knowledge, Skill And Cognition"
1-2 pm E6A102 Macquarie University North Ryde
7th
- #AusELT Twitter chat (Huw Jarvis / MALU)
July 2014
July-August (8 weeks)
- MOOC: Learning to Teach Online, offered by UNSW and taught by Simon McIntyre & Negin Mirriahi
https://www.coursera.org/course/ltto
3rd
- #AusELT Twitter chat 8.30pm on 'Professional Development - that's what I want!'
> Pre-chat information and suggested reading
> Chat Summary
10th - 13th
- CLESOL Conference, Wellington, NZ
http://www.clesol.org.nz/
June 2014
5th
- #AusELT Twitter chat 8.30pm on management issues, with Andy Hockley
> Pre-chat information and suggested reading
> Chat summary
May 2015
31st
- 10pm Perth - midnight for Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane: IATEFL webinar with Jill Hadley on 'Motivation, imagination and L2 identity'
http://www.iatefl.org/webinars
11th
- 9pm Sydney time: #KELTchat on Twitter on topic of critical pedagogy, guest moderated by Divya Madhavan: http://keltchat.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/sun-may-11th-keltchat-on-critical-pedagogy-with-special-guest-moderator-divya-madhavan/
- Michael Griffin BELTA webinar on ‘All about feedback from students’
http://www.beltabelgium.com/webinars/
Until 9th May
- IATEFL Research SIG article discussion on ‘Engaging learners: conversation- or dialogic-driven pedagogy?’
http://resig.weebly.com/1/post/2014/04/28-april-9-may-article-discussion-engaging-learners-conversation-or-dialogic-driven-pedagogyelt-journal-681-1-11.html
based on Phil Chappell’s recent article in the ELTJ, free to download from above link.
1st
- #AusELT Twitter chat: Slowburn on Russ Mayne's IATEFL 2014 talk on neuro-myths & pseudo-science in ELT. See here for details & a link to the original talk: http://auselt.com/2014/04/29/pseudoscience-and-neuromyths-in-elt/
April
30th
- at 7pm Perth & 9pm Sydney/Brisbane
Andy Hockely British Council webinar on ‘Peer observation – how can we make it work?’
http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/continuing-professional-development/webinars
PS Andy wrote about this on the #AusELT blog here:http://auselt.com/2013/09/22/setting-up-a-peer-observation-scheme/.
See also our chat summary on this topic here: http://auselt.com/2013/04/18/auselt-chat-summary-setting-up-and-running-effective-peer-observation-programs-4-april-2013/
28th April – 9th May
- IATEFL Research SIG article discussion on ‘Engaging learners: conversation- or dialogic-driven pedagogy?’http://resig.weebly.com/1/post/2014/04/28-april-9-may-article-discussion-engaging-learners-conversation-or-dialogic-driven-pedagogyelt-journal-681-1-11.html
based on Phil Chappell’s recent article in the ELTJ, free to download from above link.
26 April - 28 April
- 7th Virtual Round Table Web Conference on language learning technologies
Recordings: http://www.virtual-round-table.com/page/program-overview