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SUMMARY:2024 VicTESOL Online Symposium
DESCRIPTION:2024 VicTESOL Online Symposium\nSupporting students from refugee backgrounds: what helps\, what hinders?\n\nThe 2024 Online VicTESOL Symposium will unpack the perspectives of youth with refugee backgrounds.  It features a keynote presentation by Melanie Baak\, Senior Lecturer in UniSA Education Futures\, who presents her research on the exploration on how schools foster resilience for students from refugee backgrounds. This is followed by a panel discussion to unpack the keynote\, pre-recorded interviews with students with refugee backgrounds and a workshop facilitated by Foundation House. \nClick here for detailed information about the Symposium. \nThe 2024 Online VicTESOL Symposium will deliver FOUR online sessions. Click on the links below to find more information about the individual sessions\, or to purchase individual tickets: \nSession 1: 11 November 2024\, 4:30pm – 5:30pm \nSession 2: 13 November 2024\, 4:30pm  \nSession 3: 18 November 2024\, 4:30pm – 5:30pm \nsession 4: 20 November 2024\, 4:30pm – 6:00pm \nTicket Prices to ALL FOUR sessions: \n$50 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$130 – Non-member \nDo you work in a well-being focused leadership role? If so\, enjoy 50% OFF our Symposium ticket prices. On purchase\, you will receive a follow up email from VicTESOL to confirm the details of your role. \n$25 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$65 – Non-member \n*Membership and Ticket Package \n$110 – VicTESOL Membership and Symposium Ticket Package* \nThis package includes a ticket to the 2024 Online VicTESOL Symposium\, and an individual membership for VicTESOL for the 2024/25 membership year\, saving you $28 compared to purchasing a membership and then a member rate ticket separately. On purchase\, you will receive a follow up email from VicTESOL advising how to activate your membership.
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/2024-victesol-online-symposium/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:VicTESOL Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="VicTESOL":MAILTO:victesol@victesol.vic.edu.au
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SUMMARY:2024 VicTESOL Symposium - Keynote Session: Refugee education in Australia: what helps\, what hinders and what needs to change
DESCRIPTION:Refugee education in Australia: what helps\, what hinders and what needs to change\n(2024 VicTESOL Symposium)\n11 November 4:30pm – 5:30pm AEDT\, Online\n\nPrevious research has established that young people from refugee backgrounds may have experienced loss and trauma prior to coming to Australia\, may experience  ongoing racism and discrimination in their host country\, and may struggle to adapt to a new and sometimes unfamiliar culture (Arnot & Pinson\, 2005; Baak et al.\, 2020; Block et al.\, 2014; Cooc & Kim\, 2023; Correa-Velez et al.\, 2016; Dryden-Peterson et al.\, 2019; Keddie\, 2012; Koyama & Kasper\, 2021; McIntyre & Hall\, 2020). Students from refugee backgrounds may also require additional learning support to engage with the Australian education system due to limited English language capabilities\, missed or interrupted schooling\, and unfamiliarity with Western curricula and schooling approaches (Brown et al.\, 2006; Woods\, 2009). \nOur study\, the Refugee Student Resilience Study\, sought to explore how schools foster resilience for students from refugee backgrounds.  To do so\, we examined existing policies that shape refugee education and undertook case studies with seven secondary schools.  The case studies were undertaken across two phases. The first phase engaged with over 50 school leaders and teachers to understand current school practices.  The second phase privileged the perspectives and voices of almost 50 students from refugee backgrounds from across the seven schools. The students described the school-level relationships\, activities and services that enable them to develop resilience despite their sometimes-challenging life experiences as young refugees as well as their concerns about cultural issues and educational arrangements that impede their positive development as emerging citizens of an increasingly diverse Australia. \nIn this presentation\, we present key findings from school staff and refugee background students that highlight what currently works and what could be done better in refugee education. \nSpeaker\nDr Melanie Baak  is a Senior Lecturer in UniSA Education Futures and co-convenor of the Migration and Refugee Research Network (MARRNet) and the Race\, Coloniality and Education collective. She is a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion. Her research and teaching are underpinned by understandings of how systems and structures work to marginalise sections of the population\, particularly Afro-diasporic peoples and those from refugee backgrounds in settler colonial Australia. She currently holds an ARC DECRA Fellowship where she is exploring understandings of un/belonging for Afro-diasporic youth in Australia\, particularly in schools. She was a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage Refugee Student Resilience Study (2018-2023). Melanie was awarded an Endeavour Research Fellowship to the University of Glasgow in 2017 where she researched schools as sites of resettlement for Syrian refugees. \nCost\nTickets for all sessions of the 2024 VicTESOl Symposium are now available here. Individual tickets will be released on 26 September 2024. \n$15 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$35– Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices!
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/keynote-session-refugee-education-in-australia-what-helps-what-hinders-and-what-needs-to-change/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:VicTESOL Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="VicTESOL":MAILTO:victesol@victesol.vic.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241113T163000
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SUMMARY:2024 VicTESOL Symposium - Pre-recorded Interviews: The Experiences of Students from Refugee Backgrounds
DESCRIPTION:Pre-recorded Interviews: The Experiences of Students from Refugee Backgrounds\n(2024 VicTESOL Symposium)\n13 November 2024 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm\, AEDT\n\nHear the unique experiences of senior secondary school students who arrived in Australia through humanitarian pathways. \nPlease note that the pre-recorded interviews will not be made available to those who do not purchase tickets to the symposium or to this individual session. \nTickets for all four sessions of the 2024 VicTESOl Symposium are now available here. \nIndividual tickets: \n$15 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$35– Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices!
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/pre-recorded-interviews-the-experiences-of-students-from-refugee-backgrounds/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:VicTESOL Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="VicTESOL":MAILTO:victesol@victesol.vic.edu.au
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SUMMARY:2024 VicTESOL Symposium - Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion\n(2024 VicTESOL Symposium)\n18 November 4:30pm – 5:30pm AEDT\, Online\n\nCome join the multidisciplinary team of panelists who will unpack the keynote session and discuss their experiences working with students with refugee backgrounds; The panelists will discuss their own experiences\, not only from a teaching of English language perspective but will discuss a wide range of issues that students with a refugee background confront in contemporary schools. \nOur panelists will be made up of individuals who work with students with a refugee background\, in different professional capacities with a whole range of diverse expertise and experiences. \nFacilitator\nApril Edwards has extensive experience working as an EAL and English teacher\, EAL Coordinator and EAL specialist mentor to English teachers. She has promoted the implementation of EAL strategies across the curriculum and for the last 6 years she has worked in Initial Teacher Education and as an EAL consultant to both the Victorian Department of Education and the Victorian and Curriculum Assessment Authority. April currently works at the Faculty of Education\, University of Melbourne\, as a Teaching Academic of English\, TESOL and literacy across the curriculum. Her research focuses on culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogies that seek to include all learners whilst evoking new\, more pluralistic understandings of the self and others. \nPanel Members \nSarah Cunningham\, Job Readiness Worker\, Catholic Care \nSarah has been employed with CatholicCare Victoria since 2020\, coordinating a Job Readiness Program for refugee youth and their mothers in Geelong’s Northern Suburbs. She is passionate about their clients having informed options\, choice and control over their own education and employment journey once they arrive in Australia. Sarah has worked in education and employment programs and been an advocate with disadvantaged communities for over 14 years and worked alongside many refugee and multicultural clients during that time. \nSarah sees any role she undertakes within the Refugee Community as an absolute honour and loves working alongside inspirational clients and colleagues\, to achieve great things. “We play a small part of a much bigger puzzle for many of our clients\, we can’t do it on our own and I value the many partnerships and programs\, we work with including many amazing teachers and educators. \nDebra Gibson\, Principal at Doveton College P-9 \nDebra Gibson is the Principal of Doveton College – a vibrant learning community comprising an Early Learning Centre for children 0-5 years of age\, school for Foundation to Year 9 and a range of adult learning classes. \nThroughout her career\, she has been dedicated to creating positive and inclusive learning environments for all students with a particular focus on supporting disadvantaged and at-risk young people. Under her leadership Doveton College continues to improve student outcomes (emotional\, social and educational)\, provide equality of access and opportunity and wrap a wide range of health and allied health supports and services around children\, young people and their families. \nAs a educator and educational leader in a range of primary and secondary school settings\, Debra brings a diversity of experience\, a wealth of knowledge\, and an unwavering determination to ensure that every child gets what they need to succeed. \nChristine Bakopanos\, Counsellor-Advocate Senior Practitioner at The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture- known as Foundation House \nChristine Bakopanos is a Counsellor-Advocate Senior Practitioner at The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture- known as Foundation House. Foundation House provides a range of services to people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds who have survived torture or war related trauma. \nChristine has been working at Foundation House for the past 24 years in both research and counselling roles (undertaking individual assessment\, counselling and advocacy\, and therapeutic group work) with adults\, young people and children.  She has also undertaken professional debriefing\, reflective practice and supervision of other service providers\, particularly school wellbeing staff and bicultural workers. \nThrough her years of experience at Foundation House she has developed expertise in refugee trauma counselling\, however her strength and key interest lies in working with refugee young people individually and in therapeutic group work.  She also has had a keen interest in supporting school staff and educators\, as well as the broader educational\, youth service\, and justice sectors\, in being able to best respond to the complex needs and presentations of highly traumatised refugee and asylum-seeker youth\, including unaccompanied minors\, and disengaged at-risk youth who are from refugee backgrounds. \nHouda El Kheir\, Multicultural Education Aide \nHouda El Kheir has been working as a Multicultural Education Aide at Meadows Primary School\, in Melbourne’s north for the last 5 years. She works closely with teachers\, the principal and the wellbeing team in supporting newly arrived and refugee families to navigate the Australian schooling system. Her cultural lens\, strong connection to community and Arabic language have been integral in fostering a safe and supportive environment\, which facilitates the personal growth\, resilience and confidence in both the students and their families. \nHouda facilitates small groups to support students in developing their oral language and communication skills. She translates at Student Support Group meetings and will at times attend school visits with refugee families\, in preparation for high school transition\, or when exploring a Specialist School setting. \nCost\nTickets for all four sessions of the 2024 VicTESOl Symposium are now available here. \nIndividual tickets: \n$15 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$35– Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices!
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:VicTESOL Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="VicTESOL":MAILTO:victesol@victesol.vic.edu.au
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SUMMARY:2024 VicTESOL Symposium - Workshop: Impacts of Trauma on Learning and Behaviour
DESCRIPTION:Impacts of Trauma on Learning and Behaviour\n(2024 VicTESOL Symposium)\n20 November 4:30pm – 6:00pm AEDT\, Online\n\nIn this workshop participants will build collective understanding of how traumatic refugee experiences impact children and young people’s learning\, wellbeing\, and development. In this session you will: \n\nexplore frameworks and tools to support trauma-informed practice\nwork with colleagues using a case study to promote discussion and learning\nidentify strategies you can use to support trauma recovery and learning in the school context\n\nSpeaker\nLindsey Hogg is a Professional Learning Officer in the Foundation House Schools Support program. Lindsey has a background in developing and facilitating professional learning to support capability building in schools and organisations working with children\, young people and families of refugee backgrounds. \nAllison Greene is the leader of the Foundation House Schools Support program. Servicing schools statewide across all sectors\, the Schools Support program is part of the broader Education and Early Years Program\, working to build the capacity of the education sector to meet the needs of children\, young people and families of refugee backgrounds. Allison has a background in school leadership in the Victorian government system and is a certified GROWTH coach. \nCost\nTickets for all four sessions of the 2024 VicTESOl Symposium are now available here. \nIndividual tickets: \n$15 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$35– Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices!
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/workshop-impacts-of-trauma-on-learning-and-behaviour/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:VicTESOL Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="VicTESOL":MAILTO:victesol@victesol.vic.edu.au
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SUMMARY:Becoming future-ready: Digital inclusion of young refugees and asylum seekers in Australia
DESCRIPTION:Becoming future-ready: Digital inclusion of young refugees and asylum seekers in Australia\n28 November 2024. 4:30pm – 5:30pm AEDT\, Online\nThis session will explore the findings of the research on digital inclusion of young refugees and asylum seekers (R/AS) in Australia\, including key issues\, barriers\, available support\, and factors impacting their inclusion both within and beyond the school environment. The thematic analysis of 16 semi-structured interviews and descriptive analysis of 47 survey responses\, from teachers across Australia\, revealed the need for consistent\, targeted\, and ongoing support across various systems influencing the digital inclusion of R/AS youth. Varying skill levels\, access issues\, and migration hardships were identified as major factors impacting their integration into the digital economy. The findings highlight the need for trauma-aware teacher training\, and recognition of the specialized roles of Intensive English Centres and English as an Additional Language/Dialect teachers. The session also addresses the unprecedented challenges posed by the rapidly evolving education landscape with the introduction of Generative Artificial Intelligence\, emphasizing the importance of developing support systems to ensure R/AS youth are not left behind. \nSpeaker\n \nSherry  is a final-year PhD candidate with the School of Teacher Education and Leadership (STEL) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She holds a Masters of Secondary Teaching from Western Sydney University (WSU) and a Bachelors in Business Administration from Macquarie University. Sherry has been employed as a Research Assistant since 2017 on various projects at WSU\, QUT\, and the University of Technology\, Sydney. She has worked independently and collaboratively on local and national research projects for government and industry bodies across education\, health\, technology\, and business disciplines. Driven by her research interests revolving around digital technologies and inclusive education\, her doctoral research focuses on exploring the digital inclusion of young people from a refugee and asylum seeker background upon migration and re-settlement in Australia. \n  \nCost\n$10 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$30 – Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices!
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/becoming-future-ready-digital-inclusion-of-young-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-in-australia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:VicTESOL Professional Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="VicTESOL":MAILTO:victesol@victesol.vic.edu.au
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