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Unlocking Numeracy

We are thrilled to be having another face to face event at the Treacy Centre in Melbourne. This event...
We are thrilled to be having another face to face event at the Treacy Centre in Melbourne. This event will be partially funded by an annual bequest from the family of Anne Barton, one of our highly esteemed and...
We are thrilled to be having another face to face event at the Treacy Centre in Melbourne. This event will be partially funded by an annual bequest from the family of Anne Barton, one of our highly esteemed and much-missed Consultants who died in 2020.  Some of the topics covered on the day will include:  Early numeracy competencies and mathematical language Automaticity  Numeracy in Everyday Life for Secondary School Students Another highlight of the day is the donation of Anne's teaching resources which will be available for viewing and collection on the day. Please bring a bag if you wish to take some of these resources. Date: Sunday 2nd April, 2023 Time: 9:15am registration for a 9:45am start, finishing at 3:15pm Cost: Non-Member: $130 LDA Member: $90 LDA Student Member: $70 Catering: Welcome tea and coffee, morning tea and lunch will be provided. Speakers Nathalie Perry Dr Anne Bellert Prof. David Evans Erin Rollason
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Dealing with ADHD Challenges in Schools

This online presentation will explain some of the difficulties that students with ADHD can experience with academic tasks and...
This online presentation will explain some of the difficulties that students with ADHD can experience with academic tasks and with their behaviour. Dr Poulton will address how to deal with those challenges in the school environment. Wednesday 26th April, 7:30pm...
This online presentation will explain some of the difficulties that students with ADHD can experience with academic tasks and with their behaviour. Dr Poulton will address how to deal with those challenges in the school environment. Wednesday 26th April, 7:30pm - 8:30pm AEST Non-member - $30LDA member - $15Student Member - $10 "ADHD Made Simple" by Dr Alison Poulton If you are interested in purchasing Dr Poulton's book, you can do so on our LDA bookshop site here. We have a number of great resources on ADHD on this site. About Dr Alison (Sally) Poulton Alison (Sally) Poulton MBBChir, MD (Cantab), FRACP is a paediatrician and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre Nepean, with more than 25 years of experience in treating ADHD. Her research has included studying the effects of stimulant medication on growth and physical maturation. She is interested in the patterns of attention and concentration experienced by people of all ages with ADHD, and is excited by the possibility that these experiential descriptions might be more specific for ADHD than the symptom based diagnostic criteria. Her models of ADHD, as described in her book: ‘ADHD Made Simple’ and on her educational website (www.poultonadhd.com.au) describe her way of explaining ADHD and its relationship with oppositional defiant disorder. These models can explain some of the difficulties that students with ADHD can experience with academic tasks and with their behaviour.
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Numeracy Language Promotion in Secondary Schools

This presentation will unfold the importance of language in numeracy, and how to promote numeracy knowledge and skills for...
This presentation will unfold the importance of language in numeracy, and how to promote numeracy knowledge and skills for secondary school students with learning difficulties. Areas that will be covered in this presentation are language in everyday numeracy, how...
This presentation will unfold the importance of language in numeracy, and how to promote numeracy knowledge and skills for secondary school students with learning difficulties. Areas that will be covered in this presentation are language in everyday numeracy, how to support numeracy language and understanding, at school and at home (i.e. morphology, strategies, executive functioning strategies- visual organisers, and the learning environment). Presented by LDA Council Member Erin Rollason. Tuesday 9th May, 7:30pm - 8:30pm AEST Non-member - $30LDA member - $15Student Member - $10
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Morph Mastery

Louise Selby will leave you feeling inspired with all the tools you need to teach morphology within the classroom...
Louise Selby will leave you feeling inspired with all the tools you need to teach morphology within the classroom or 1:1 sessions. Louise is the author of Morph Mastery: A Morphological Intervention for Reading, Spelling and Vocabulary. She will...
Louise Selby will leave you feeling inspired with all the tools you need to teach morphology within the classroom or 1:1 sessions. Louise is the author of Morph Mastery: A Morphological Intervention for Reading, Spelling and Vocabulary. She will demonstrate using the Morphological Awareness Assessment and will go through a range of practical activities and templates to support your teaching. This training is provided over two sessions, attendees are expected to attend both sessions. Date: Tue 13th & 20th June, 2023 Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm AEST (Please note this is Melbourne standard time) Cost:  Non-Member: $85 LDA Member: $75 LDA Student Member: $45
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Making Maths Real & Fun – Assessment & Teaching Strategies

This course over 2 sessions is designed to make maths real and fun! Date: Tue 12th & Wed 13th September, 2023...
This course over 2 sessions is designed to make maths real and fun! Date: Tue 12th & Wed 13th September, 2023 (Registrants will be expected to attend both sessions.) ***A recording will be available for 2 weeks after the event.*** Time: 7:30pm to...
This course over 2 sessions is designed to make maths real and fun! Date: Tue 12th & Wed 13th September, 2023 (Registrants will be expected to attend both sessions.) ***A recording will be available for 2 weeks after the event.*** Time: 7:30pm to 8:30pm, AEST (Melbourne standard time) Cost: Non-Member: $60 LDA Member: $30 LDA Student Member: $20 Tuesday 12th September The importance of Diagnostic Assessment in the creation of focused Maths Support plans.Sarah will go through Diagnostic Maths Assessment to assess a student's maths knowledge. She will demonstrate completing an Assessment Map to highlight areas of secure knowledge and facilitate writing of an Individual Maths Development Plan (IMDP). Wednesday 13th September Let’s make Maths real and make it fun!In this webinar we will work with a variety of concrete resources that can be used to build our students’ understanding of number, increase their confidence and develop secure visual images. The webinar will also look at games and activities for revisiting and overlearning essential maths concepts. Speaker - Sarah Wedderburn Sarah Wedderburn founded Unicornmaths in 2003 based on the principle ‘Make numbers real and make them fun’. She believes that effective maths remediation needs to be multi-sensory, encouraging students to touch and move concrete resources so that they develop full understanding and strong visual images before moving on to abstract reasoning. This interaction needs to be enjoyable and include continual overlearning and revisiting to build up a student’s confidence and retention. Sarah is the author of the Diagnostic Assessment of Numeracy Skills (DANS), a qualitative maths assessment that uses activities and games to discover what a student really knows, rather than what they can present on paper. The DANSAssessment Map enables targeted lesson planning as it clearly shows which numerical concepts are fully understood, and which need reinforcing in class and individual support lessons.
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