Event Information
Date: Saturday 14 September 2024
Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Location: Kwong Lee Dow Building, Faculty of Education
234 Queensberry Street, Parkville Victoria 3053
Our conference will bridge the research to practice gap using current evidence and research on teacher classroom challenges (attendance, learning difficulties (literacy & numeracy), neuro-diversity, disability and mental health and well-being). The focus is on practical strategies that can readily be implemented into classrooms.
Tickets $100.
Morning tea and lunch provided.
Sharing Best Practice Melbourne is held in partnership with Sharing Best Practice (SBP), a grassroots movement of educators and allied health professionals dedicated to exchanging best practice pedagogies and scientifically-backed methods.
Contact
For event enquiries, please email: education-li@unimelb.edu.au
Conference Speakers
Hear from Faculty of Education Staff and a range of external education experts at Sharing Best Practice Melbourne.
Learning Intervention Academic Group
Associate Professor Lisa McKay-Brown
Keynote Speaker
A/Prof Lisa McKay-Brown is the Associate Dean Diversity and Inclusion at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. Lisa has over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience in a wide range of education settings with a specific focus on the inclusion of students with disability.
Associate Professor Jon Quach
A/Prof Jon Quach is interested in research at the health and education interface. Drawing upon the fundamental understanding that children’s health, development and learning are intrinsically linked, he aims to determine how children's academic outcomes are shaped by common health and development inequities during the early years of primary school, and what interventions can be used within primary schools to address these inequities.
Dr. Sharon Klieve
Sharon Klieve is the Coordinator of the Master of Learning Intervention at the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Sharon has over 25 years experience working in education, including early intervention, primary, secondary and specialist deaf education settings, and specialist language and literacy practices. Sharon is a dual qualified teacher and Speech-Language Pathologist whilst also holding an additional specialisation as a Teacher of the Deaf.
Anthea Naylor
Anthea Naylor is a member of the Learning Intervention Team at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She has many years of experience in teaching both secondary and primary levels in mainstream, independent and special education settings.
Nathalie Parry
Nathalie Parry is a Lecturer for the Learning Intervention Team at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia. As a specialist teacher, her research and practice are motivated by a desire to understand the opportunities and challenges experienced by people with learning differences.
External Education Specialists
Jocelyn Seamer
Keynote Speaker
Jocelyn Seamer is a former classroom teacher and school leader who now works as an
Jeanette Breen
Learning Specialist at Templestowe Heights Primary School
Sarah Asome
Assistant Principal at Bentleigh West Primary School
Melinda de Haan
Learning Intervention Specialist and Teacher
Elvira Kalenjuk
PhD Candidate and Lecturer, Monash University
Charlotte Peverett
Special Education Learning Specialist/Inclusion Outreach Coach
Schedule for the day
Please see details of workshop and sessions below.
| Time | Session Information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8:45–9am | Welcome/Acknowledgement of Country | ||||
9–10am | Keynote: Lisa McKay-Brown Multidimensional MTSS | ||||
10–10:05am | Movement break | ||||
10:05–10:45am | Keynote: Jocelyn Seamer Key elements of the structured primary literacy block | ||||
10:45–11:15am | Morning tea | ||||
Breakout Sessions | |||||
11:15am–12:15pm | Nathalie Parry Numeracy Assessment Workshop Numeracy assessment & intervention cycle | Sharon Klieve & Kate Leigh The language basis for literacy and learning | Lisa McKay-Brown
We have a tier 1 school attendance problem.
| Jeanette Breen Using Comparative Judgement to inform instruction and Improve Writing. | Sarah Asome Getting tier 1 right! |
12:15–12:20pm | Movement break | ||||
12:20–1:20pm | Nathalie Parry Numeracy Intervention Workshop Numeracy assessment & intervention cycle Catering for diversity in your classroom | Sharon Klieve Literacy Assessment Workshop Literacy assessment & intervention cycle Catering for diversity in your classroom | Melinda de Haan & Emily Pandya Using effective 'literacy moves' for tier 2 & tier 1 settings to boost students' reading outcomes in engaging & practical ways | Jocelyn Seamer Spelling in the upper years | Anthea Naylor Tier 1 behavioural supports |
1:20–2:20pm | Lunch | ||||
2:20–3:25pm | Nathalie Parry Manipulatives: Are they all they're CRAcked up to be? | Sharon Klieve
Literacy Intervention Workshop
| Elly Kalenjuk
Understanding the experiences of student with dysgraphia and how they can be supported | Jon Quach, Georgia Dawson & Emily Corcoran Academic achievement and well-being – Why not both? | Charlotte Peverett What does the Science of Learning mean for schools, classrooms and students? |
3:25–3:30pm | Movement / nature break | ||||
2:30–4:00pm | Panel Discussion | ||||
4-4:15pm | Plenary Lorraine Graham | ||||