As we shape up for 2025, our programs and practices are increasingly more Flexible. Innovative. Transformative (F.I.T).
This year’s UECA PD Fest is hosted by Macquarie University College (Macquarie Park, Sydney) on Saturday 9th November 2024.
The F.I.T for 2025 program takes a pulse check on the teaching and learning practices that define our time and considers what it takes to be F.I.T for 2025.
Unlocking Potential: Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the AI era
UECA are pleased to present the UECA PD Fest on Saturday, 11 November 2023.
Join us for a transformative day of professional development where educators in the ESL industry will converge for a day of learning, collaboration, and inspiration.
Hosted by UTS College, this event is run by teachers for teachers, and promises to be a rich and rewarding experience for all.
The theme for the UECA PD Fest on Saturday 11 November is Unlocking Potential: Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the AI era.
Since the Covid 19 Pandemic and the transition from online to face-to-face teaching, we recognize the need for innovative, augmentative strategies that empower educators to enhance student performance. It’s about embracing a fresh attitude, refining your approach, and taking action to meet the evolving needs of today’s learners.
The program will showcase different approaches to delivering engaging and innovative content to enhance student performance. Discover how Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence and other cutting-edge tools are transforming traditional classrooms into immersive, interactive and engaging environments.
Don’t miss this opportunity to network, exchange ideas, and map out best practice and approaches for students to succeed.
University English Centres Australia (UECA) are pleased to present the UECA PD Fest, on Saturday, 18 June 2022.
The UECA PD Day will bring together ELICOS teachers, academic managers and staff in 5 simultaneous events across Australia in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. The focus of the day is on reconnecting with colleagues face-to-face, reflecting on the past two years and turning to think about the new realities and new challenges for our sector as we move forward. Two plenary sessions ‘Adventure Thinking: Finding Calm in the Chaos’ and ‘Perspectives from the Sector: Beyond 2022’ will be screened across all locations and these will be complimented with localised interactive activities in each city for f2f participants.
Adelaide
Simon Futo
General Manager, ELC, The University of Adelaide
Brisbane
Ken Beutel
Executive Director, QUT College
Melbourne
Maxine Sahhar
Executive Director Academic at RMIT Training
Perth
Leanne Howarth
Manager, Teaching Programs
Sydney
Katherine Olston
Director Centre for English Teaching + Learning Hub, The University of Sydney
NEAS is proud to be the Principal Sponsor of UECA’s Professional Development Events.
This UECA PD event is also sponsored by Bookery and Cambridge.
University English Language Centres of Australia (UECA), and the Centre for English Language Teaching, University of Western Australia, are proud to present the UECA PD Fest Perth on Saturday, 20 November 2021.
Through the theme Support, the event aims at providing professional development on a range of skills and strategies for supporting both teachers and students in these challenging times. It is a great opportunity to share ideas and insights with colleagues from different centres, through a range of synchronous and asynchronous presentations and interviews. It will include opportunities for participants to interact with colleagues across the sector.
Our plenary speaker is Dr Guy Curtis, a Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology at the University of Western Australia. He has worked as an academic for nearly 20 years, and his current research interests are psychological individual differences, leadership, and academic integrity and contract cheating. He will join us live via Zoom on Saturday November 20th to discuss academic integrity and how we can support students to do the right thing.
The Plenary will then lead into a Panel Discussion on what needs to be included in a Direct Entry Program, and ways we can be supporting students, from a range of perspectives.
The theme of Support will also be realised through asynchronous presentations in 2 streams.
Student Support:
Teacher Support:
NEAS is proud to be the Principal Sponsor of UECA’s Professional Development Events.
This UECA PD event is also sponsored by Bookery and Cambridge.
University English Centres Australia (UECA) is a network of Australian universities offering a variety of English Language Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS), TESOL teacher training and professional development programs.
