Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council
Active, Informed, Committed Practitioners
VALBEC leads and connects the adult literacy, language and numeracy field in Victoria
Twilight Forum
"Innovative ways of working with migrant and refugee young adult migrants"
These documents were provided by Julie Palmer and Fran MacMahon Sers at the VALBEC Twilight Forum
"Innovative ways of working with migrant and refugee young adult migrants"
held at Goulburn Ovens TAFE on 27th April.
Fran spoke from the perspective of Coordinator of the YAMEC Program at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE - the Program flyers summarise this.
Julie spoke of her role as a teacher in the program and her participation in a research project with Jenny Miller from Monash University. The project looked at best practice for adolescent migrants and refugees to improve English Literacy. Available to download are YAMEC Program flyers, summary of research project, and one of Julie's successful Units of Work including student work from Creative Arts and Language Learning.
Diving into Everyday Text – a related article by Jenny Miller - Practically Primary; v.12 n.2 p.26-31; June 2007, is available online for free to members of the State Library of Victoria (membership is free).
If you have any further questions or would like to visit the YAMEC program, contact Fran franm-ls@nmit.vic.edu.au
Julie can be contacted on juliep-yu@nmit.vic.edu.au
Program flyers (PDF 80KB)
Unit of Work Part 1 (PDF 1MB)
Unit of Work Part 2 (PDF 450KB)
Unit of Work Part 3 (PDF 700KB)
Creative Arts and language Learning (PDF 50KB)
Research project (PDF 55KB)
