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Adelaide ASFLA2010 conference
The ASFLA2010 conference will be in Adelaide 29 September – 1 October 2010. The focus is on education with many papers by practising teachers. Dr David Rose will present a plenary on the development of Reading to Learn and its relation to other literacy pedagogies. Other plenaries include Beverly Derewianka, Peter Freebody, Brian Gray, Kristina Love and Len Unsworth.
Vancouver conference
The European R2L team have just presented their work at the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference in Vancouver (July 19-23). Claire Acevedo from the UK, and Ann-Christin Lövstedt and Eija Kuyumcu from Sweden presented a paper on the R2L teacher training program they have been developing. Together with Professor Jim Martin whose plenary at the conference discussed R2L, they have sparked further interest in North America and beyond.
Stockholm conference
The Multilingual Research Institute in Stockholm organised a conference and academic seminar on R2L in May 19-20, attended by over 400 teachers and teacher educators from across Scandinavia. Keynote speakers were Dr Kristina Love of the University of Melbourne and Dr David Rose.
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Reading to Learn is one of the world's most powerful literacy programs. It is designed to enable all learners at all levels of education to read and write successfully, at levels appropriate to their age, grade and area of study. The Reading to Learn strategies have been independently evaluated to consistently accelerate the learning of all students at twice to more than four times expected rates, across all schools and classes, and among students from all backgrounds and ability ranges. The program has been developed over ten years with teachers of primary, secondary and tertiary students across Australia and internationally, to integrate reading and writing with teaching the curriculum at all year levels. The strategies apply cuttting edge research in classroom learning, and language across the curriculum, in a form that is accessible, practical and meets the needs of teachers and students. The Reading to Learn program can be accessed as a teacher professional learning program, or by ordering the teacher resource package and training DVDs directly. This website sets out the principles of the Reading to Learn program, and the people and programs around the world. Reports and articles on the methodology can be downloaded for free, and the teacher resource package can be ordered online.
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