The full program for this years annual conference for English teachers in Australia can be found at:
http://www.englishliteracyconference.com.au/index.php?id=48&year=10
The conference is on this year in Perth from 4-7 July. I’ll be presenting a paper on the Monday about National Curriculum, based on my PhD research on curriculum change:
Getting comfy with the ‘new’: What we can expect to feel about curriculum change.
The National Curriculum will bring with it a host of challenges and problems that may leave us grieving for our familiar local curriculum. What can we expect to feel in this time of change? And what will the effects of this be on our beliefs, our pedagogy and our practice? How much of what we are already doing, really, are teachers expecting to be able to carry forward? It seems this point in curriculum history is an ideal spot for us to revisit and revise our curriculum philosophies, as well as our beliefs about the purpose and goal of teaching English.
Reflecting on the findings of my PhD research into the changes and innovations of the 1999 HSC English syllabus in NSW, in this paper I consider the processes by which teachers have coped with change. What is likely to make us uncomfortable in the National Curriculum for English? What have we already shown in NSW that we fear? The audience will be invited to consider their own philosophies, and begin preparing for change.
The 2011 conference will take place in Melbourne (in December), and the 2012 conference sees the conference returning to Sydney (in October).
Kelli McGraw 
#1 by Troy on June 4, 2010 - 3:38 pm
I’d love to be in the audience, to be able to share. I’m sure there will be an online discussion sometime soon!
#2 by kmcg2375 on June 4, 2010 - 3:52 pm
Absolutely. Was thinking of using Prezi for the first time for this, but at the least my regular slides will go up. I’ve thought about recording it, like Mark Pesce does with his presentations for later vodcasting, but I think I’m too camera shy for it!