About ALM12
Who is it for?
Connecting Voices is a chance to catch up on professional development, to share experiences, to explore current issues affecting the range of numeracy and mathematics education for adults, to meet Australian and overseas practitioners and researchers, and to find out what people are doing around the globe.
Participants will include:
- practitioners of adult literacy and numeracy from community settings, colleges, TAFEs, training organisations, workplaces, literacy and numeracy programs, correctional institutions, migrant English services
- community members, workers and advocates
- teachers of bridging mathematics, youth workers, mathematics and vocational teachers in schools
- researchers, teacher educators, teacher trainees
- planners, policy makers, curriculum writers and program managers.
So please come:
- If you’ve been teaching for years, come and share what you do, or find new ideas
- If you’re just a beginner, come to the practical, hands-on workshops and see what’s worked for others
- If you’re interested in the interface between numeracy, mathematics and literacy and language
- If you want to talk with others about how numeracy and literacy can work together, here’s your chance
- If you teach maths to nurses or engineers or jewellers, come and find someone else who does that sort of teaching too
- If you work with students bridging the gaps between school and tertiary education
- If you’ve been working with indigenous students, or would like to, come and share those experiences
- If you are interested in the maths that people do and how they do it in real life, in the work place, at home, using money - come and hear speakers talking about their work and research
- If you’re interested in mathematics and its place in society and how this impacts in a political, economic and social justice sense.