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Literacy Education Winter School Provisional Programme

DAY 1: MONDAY 11 JULY 2011

08:00 – 08:50 Registration and Morning Tea / Coffee
09:00 – 09:50 Opening and Welcome
Prof Sarah Gravett (Executive Dean: Faculty of Education, UJ)

Keynote Address
Mrs Palesa Tyobeka (DBE)
Dr Diane Parker (DHET)

10:00 – 11:55 Session 1
Research and Theory in Literacy Development – Part 1
Comprehension – why we learn to read in the first place
Prof Catherine Snow, Prof Pamela Mason, and Prof Paola Uccelli
Harvard Graduate School of Education

12:00 – 12:55 Lunch

13:00 – 14:25 Session 2
Title to follow
Dr Kerryn Dixon
University of the Witwatersrand

14:30 – 14:40 Tea Break

14:45 – 16:15 Session 3
Classroom Practices for Literacy Development – Part 1
Comprehension instruction is content instruction
Prof Catherine Snow, Prof Pamela Mason, and Prof Paola Uccelli
Harvard Graduate School of Education

16:30 – 18:00 Session 4 – Meeting
DHET/EU Foundation Phase Teacher Education Programme

DAY 2: TUESDAY 12 JULY 2011
08:00 – 08:25 Registration and morning tea/coffee

08:30 – 09:25
Keynote Address
Prof Catherine Snow
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Title of keynote to follow

09:30 – 11:40 Session 5
Research and Theory in Literacy Development – Part 2
Vocabulary and background knowledge – the essence of learning
Prof Catherine Snow, Prof Pamela Mason, and Prof Paola Uccelli
Harvard Graduate School of Education

11:45 – 12:40 Lunch

12:45 – 14:10 Session 6
Emergent Biliteracy: Early Writing Development
Dr Carole Bloch, Ms Xolisa Guzula and Ms Ntombizanele
University of Cape Town

14:15 – 14:25 Tea Break

14:30 – 16:15 Session 7
Classroom Practices for Literacy Development – Part 2
Teaching vocabulary to students from 4 to 14
Prof Catherine Snow, Prof Pamela Mason, and Prof Paola Uccelli
Harvard Graduate School of Education

16:20 – 18:00 Session 8
(i) Working Group Report: Possible establishment of South African Early
Childhood Education Research Association
(ii) Meeting: DHET/EU Foundation Phase Teacher Education Programme

DAY 3: WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2011
08:00 – 08:25 Morning tea/coffee

08:30 – 10:55 Session 9
Research and Theory in Literacy Development – Part 3
Alphabetic and automaticity – tools not goals
Prof Catherine Snow, Prof Pamela Mason, and Prof Paola Uccelli
Harvard Graduate School of Education

11:00 – 12:25 Session 10
Researching the Literacy Classroom
Prof Michael Samuel
University of KwaZulu – Natal
OR
Session 11
Methods and tools for initial literacy education research – Part 1
Prof Elizabeth Henning, and Dr Pinky Makoe, University of Johannesburg

12:30 – 13:25 Lunch

13:30 – 14:55 Session 12
Classroom Practices for Literacy Development – Part 3
How to teach letters, sounds and their relations
Prof Catherine Snow, Prof Pamela Mason, and Prof Paola Uccelli
Harvard Graduate School of Education

15:00 – 15:10 Tea Break

15:15 – 16:55 Session 13
Title to follow
Molteno Language and Literacy Project, Johannesburg
Presenter names to follow
OR

Session 14
Changing literacy practices in Foundation Phase classrooms:
Why, what and how?
Exploring models of change through literacy coaching
Prof Elizabeth Pretorius, University of South Africa

19:00 – Gala Dinner
-Launch of the EU Foundation Phase Teacher Education Programme
-Possible launch of the South African Early Childhood Education Research
Association

DAY 4: THURSDAY 14 JULY 2011
08:00 – 08:25 Morning tea/coffee

08:30 – 10:55 Session 15
Research and theory in literacy development – Part 4
1. Writing: from spelling to novels
2. Assessment and response to difficulties – when, why, and how
Prof Catherine Snow, Prof Pamela Mason, and Prof Paola Uccelli
Harvard Graduate School of Education

11:00 – 12:25 Session 16
Title to follow
Dr Ingrid Willenberg, Macquarie University, Sydney.

OR

Workshop Session 17
A systematic review of foundation phase teacher education research
Prof Cyril Julie, University of Western Cape, South Africa
12:30 – 13:25 Lunch

13:30 –14:55 Workshop Session 18
Classroom practices for literacy development – Part 4
Proven practices to support writing and to use writing in supporting reading

Assessment and using assessment data
Prof Catherine Snow, Prof Pamela Mason, and Prof Paola Uccelli
Harvard Graduate School of Education

15:00 – 15:10 Tea Break

15:15 – 16:55 Session 19 – Workshop
Aligning foundation phase teacher education programmes with the
policy on Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications
aligned with the Higher Education Qualifications Framework.
Dr Diane Parker and Dr Whitfield Green , Department of Higher Education and
Training – DHET

17:00 – 18:30 Session 20 – Meeting

DHET/EU Foundation phase teacher education programme

DAY 5: FRIDAY 15 JULY 2011
08:00 – 08:25 Morning tea/coffee
08:30 – 09:30 South African Early Childhood Education Research Association -
Election of committee members

09:30 – 11:00 Session 21

Methods and tools for initial literacy education research – Part 2
Prof Elizabeth Henning and Dr Pinky Makoe, University of Johannesburg,

OR

Session 22
Title of presentation to follow
Presenter name to follow
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
11:05 – 12:25 Session 23
Title of presentation to follow

Prof Themane, University of Limpopo

OR

Literacy knowledge and practice standards for FP teacher preparation
programmes
Prof Carisma Nel (NWU)
12:30 – 13:25 Lunch

13:30 – 14:55 Session 24

Title of presentation to follow
Presenter name to follow
University of Pretoria, South Africa

15:00 – 15:30 Closing Session

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