Student and Teacher of the Year

Once again, PRACE featured strongly at the statewide ACFE annual awards.

Huge congratulations to Josh Gibbins from the VCAL program (Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning) who received the award for best student, and Deb Vallely who received the award for best tutor.

(In 2004, we were awarded the Best Provider in Victoria.)

New news ! - Get your copy of the PRACE News and Reviews for December '07. (pdf file, 900kb: print to double-sided A3 and fold).

Plus, old news : November '06 is Still a good read! (pdf file, 900kb).

"Adult Migrant English Program" (AMEP)

Have you recently come to Australia? You may be entitled to 510 Hours of FREE English Classes - Details here >

Learning Programs

PRACE delivers quality Adult Community Education in Language, Literacy, and General Preparatory.

Learning for Young people, Adult literacy, English as a second language (ESL) - accredited and vocational - using Computers, Gardening, Cooking, and much more! Contact us!

Intranet for Staff

Staff and at PRACE can login to the intranet, join in discussion, send messages for technical support.

Staff room (login req'd)

Technical Support (staff only)

PageTurners

Material Galz, in association with PRACE, have produced a range of stories for beginning readers. Series Three very close to release now, Sept.'07. More > .

Read and listen to our Online Story - Snakes Alive!

"Can You Hear Us?"

Find out about our investigation into voice and audio technologies in the classroom. Hosted on wikispaces, funded by Learnscope '07.

Teacher Network: adult literacy meets technology

Many teachers around Australia have joined the "Adult Literacy and Technology Mailing List" - to share information about using technologies in adult literacy, numeracy and basic education.

Play the Game: research into learning through games

In 2005, we investigated screen-based games with a group of adults learning literacy and numeracy. You can find out more here.

Partnerships

Many programs we deliver in partnership with other organisations, such as

• Olympic Adult Education,
• Glenroy Neighbourhood Learning Centre
• Preston Neighbourhood House (PNH)
• "LearnLinks" - the RMIT& ACE Learning Partnerships Network, and
• Darebin Youth Resource Centre

Funding Buddies

Organisations who have funded us include:

• Northern Metropolitan Regional Council of Adult, Community and Further Education (ACFE-NMR),
• The federal Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) funds the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)
• The Language, Literacy and Numeracy Programme (LLNP) is administered by the federal Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)
• The Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD)
• TafeFrontiers (sadly gone now),
• Victorian State Office of Training and Tertiary Education (OTTE),
• RMIT LearnLinks, plus
• Our local government area, the City of Darebin, and
• The Victorian State Department of Education - Youth Pathways (YPP)
• The Australian Flexible Learning Framework