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May 02, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Description:How do you differentiate when you move from planning to practice in the classroom? Unit planning at the primary level typically occurs in teams. However, each teacher then moves into their own environment and must adapt that plan for the students in their classroom. How do you differentiate your teaching strategies? How do you differentiate your assessment tasks and how do you modify your approach as you observe the learning outcomes from the diverse range of abilities in your classroom? In this session the presenter will focus on how you can differentiate in your literacy teaching once you have your unit plan.
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Course Length: 1.5 hours
Presenter: Lara Schendzielorz
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Description:Students with English as an Additional Language (EAL) may experience challenges in their learning. Teachers who are equipped with resources and strategies to support EAL students can assist these students to overcome barriers to their learning. The evidence shows that teaching practices that support EAL students also enhance the learning of mainstream students. This session will model successful teaching practices that have worked with students in the middle years (upper primary and lower secondary). The session will also be helpful for Education Support Staff who may be working one to one or with small groups.
Presenter: Marika Convey
May 16, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Description:Literacy is the responsibility of all teachers, but not all teachers feel fully prepared to support students' literacy development. Literacy is fundamental to student success at school and life, so all teachers must be committed to enhancing student literacy. In this session an experienced literacy teacher will outline some high quality literacy activities that you can implement in your teaching. They will have a practical focus and will extend (as far as practicable) across the subject disciplines. The focus will be on reading and writing activities.
Course Length: 1 hour
Presenter: Laura Zinghini
May 16, 2024 | 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Description:Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can struggle to engage with the learning that is happening in the classroom. This session will provide background knowledge about the condition of ADHD and how it typically manifests in the classroom. The presenter will then explore practical classroom strategies that can be used to promote engagement in the learning environment for those students with ADHD. While the focus is on teaching strategies, it will also be helpful for Education Support Staff working one to one or with small groups.
Presenter: Dr Jane Wenlock
May 16, 2024 | 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Description:Our students' attention span has been evolving as technology becomes more prevalent. This does not mean our traditional pedagogical teachings need suffer, though thoughtful consideration of the flow of our classroom becomes the keystone of effective lesson execution. In this session, a seasoned Maths teacher will guide you through building practical structural classrooms that foster students' introductory buy-in, remain engaged, and more importantly retain the knowledge to not continuously start from scratch. These techniques will add to or adapt your current maths repertoire that builds confidence in your teachings across middle years (Years 5-9)
Course Length: 60 hours
Presenter: Lisa Tolley
May 24, 2024 | 09:30 AM - 03:30 PM
Description:A core responsibility for all teachers is to create an environment in which all students can learn and thrive. An effective classroom environment does not happen by accident or magic; the skills and knowledge need to be learned and then practiced and refined over many years. Schools place great responsibility and trust in teachers in middle leaders, including Year Level Coordinators, Heads of House and Pastoral Leaders. Teachers in these leadership roles need to work with colleagues to build skills and knowledge, model effective teaching practices and be available to respond when things do not go right. In this session, Australia’s leading classroom management specialist will take you through his ‘seven steps to success' including: Classroom expectations shared & owned, Classroom routines taught & known, Active supervision of students, Positive environment. This session is for middle leaders in schools (YLC, Heads of House, Pastoral Leaders) and for those who aspire to those roles. This is an essential course for those who are on a leadership journey in schools.
Course Length: 6 hours
Presenter: David Vinegrad
May 30, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Description:Students with dyscalculia will encounter difficulties with maths and numeracy tasks. Not every student who experiences difficulty with Maths or numeracy will have dyscalculia, but it is helpful to understand the condition and to make an informed decision about whether additional assistance is needed for the student. In this session, the presenter will outline typical indicators of a student who is experiencing dyscalculia; some effective strategies for supporting the student in the classroom; and the session will also highlight specialist organisations and resources that can be accessed for further support. This session will also be helpful for Education Support Staff who may be working one to one or with small groups.
Presenter: Associate Professor Judi Humberstone
May 30, 2024 | 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Description:Most teachers now work in a team context, including Education Support Staff (or Learning Support Officers) in the classroom. Building an effective partnership with ES staff can enhance the quality of the teaching program and the learning outcomes for the students. Good partnerships are based on healthy communication, thorough planning, understanding the different roles and establishing clear boundaries. In this session the presenter will share their successes (and challenges) in creating effective partnerships. While aimed at a teaching audience, Education Support Staff may also find the insights helpful.
Jun 13, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Description:Behaviour management is one of the more challenging issues teachers, schools, and school systems face on a day to day basis. National and international researchers agree that students who feel safe, supported, and connected are more likely to be active participants in their learning. In this session, the presenter will focus on strategies to develop effective classroom relationships that maximise learning; tools to create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments; how to sustain and strengthen relationships with their students when acknowledging and correcting classroom behaviours and strategies and approaches which promote a consistent and predictable classroom environment. Completing Behaviour Management - Keeping it Right will provide teachers in NSW with 2 hours of PD accredited through NESA addressing Standard 4.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
Course Length: 2 hours
Jun 13, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Description:Students with dyslexia will encounter difficulties with reading and spelling, and left unsupported may struggle with reading comprehension and vocabulary development. This will impact on the student’s learning capability across all areas of the curriculum. Teachers can create a learning environment and use instructional practices that maximise the learning outcomes for all students, those with and without dyslexia. This session will look at dyslexia through the Response to Intervention framework and explore strategies at each of the three tiers of support. Suitable for classroom teachers, as well as Education Support staff who may be working one to one or with small groups.
Presenter: Julia Walker
Jul 03, 2024 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Description:Schools play an important role in developing the social and emotional competencies in students that contribute to student wellbeing. Leaders in schools also have a responsibility to support the wellbeing and the dignity of those people working in the school; leaders, teachers, administrators, support staff and grounds and maintenance staff. Finding the common ground between wellbeing for staff and students can reduce workload and increase the effectiveness of wellbeing approaches. This full day course will support wellbeing leaders to develop practical, effective and sustainable approaches to wellbeing.
Course Length: 3 hours
Presenter: Kristy Elliott
Jul 05, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Description:Teachers have a professional responsibility under AITSL standard 2.4.2 to promote Reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As teachers we have a unique opportunity to advance Reconciliation in what we teach and how we teach about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures in the lead up to the Voice referendum. In this session the presenter will provide background on the history that has led us to the Uluru Statement and the referendum on a Voice to Parliament. The presenter will explore the issues and outline the teaching resources available for the classroom. For teachers in NSW, completing Steps to Reconciliation will contribute 2 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Aboriginal education and supporting Aboriginal students/children addressing standard descriptor 2.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
Presenter: Emerson Zerafa-Payne
Jul 05, 2024 | 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Description:The current curriculum requires teachers to include First Nations perspectives. However, school systems, curricula and expectations are set by modern practices that have been introduced after European settlement. There is often conflict between the existing systems and First Nations perspectives. This session will explore the educations systems and societal assumptions that underpin the approach to curriculum formation. It is an important starting point to ensure that we engage authentically with First Nations perspectives throughout the curriculum. The presenter will build on the ideas that they presented in their article in the TLN Journal - Steps to Reconciliation (email [email protected] for a copy).
Presenter: Al Fricker
Jul 09, 2024 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Description: It is the responsibility of all teachers in the secondary years to promote improved litearcy outcomes to assist students to succed in their career and life ambitions. Secondary schools need a consistent approach to literacy improvement across all subject disciplines. In this leadership session, the presenetr will work through approaches to promte literacy across the curriculum, including building essential vocabulary, explicit teaching to master complex writng tasks and developing the capcity to read the required texts in any subject.
Presenter: Kate Cash
Jul 11, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Description:Middle leaders have diverse and complex roles in schools. What is common across every role, is that your success will be measured by your capacity to build positive and effective relationships. As a middle leader you have to look up to your senior leadership team, look across to your colleagues, and out to the wider school community e.g. parents. At the same time you have maintain your positive connection with the students you teach. It can be exhausting as you are 'in the middle'. In this full day in person session, two leading facilitators will work with you to build the relationship skills that you will need to thrive in your role; with your colleagues, with parents and with students.
Course Length: 5 hours
Presenter: David Vinegrad and Kristy Elliott
Jul 11, 2024 | 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Description:Middle leaders in schools have a responsibility to generate healthy and productive relationships with the parent community. Healthy relationships lead to increased parent involvement in the child's education and supportive relationships with teachers. In this session, the presenter, who has researched extensively in this field, will outline a guiding framework for middle leaders in engaging parents. The session will set out successful practical strategies that the presenter has implemented in their school.
Jul 12, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Description:Teachers in 21st century classrooms are challenged to ensure that all students can achieve success. The challenge is increased when students in the classroom have learning disabilities. All teachers need the opportunity to increase their knowledge about the major learning disabilities and to broaden their teaching strategies to differentiate to meet the needs of all students in the classroom. In this program one of Australia's leading teachers on working with students with learning disabilities will outline approaches to self-regulation and sensory processing, behavioural issues, and knowledge acquisition, experienced by those students with learning disability. There will be a focus on ASD and ADHD. It is a practical, classroom focused course. Completing Differentiation for students with a learning disability (ASD and ADHD focus) will contribute 5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Students/children with Disability addressing standard descriptors 1.6.2, 4.1.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
Presenter: Belinda Webb
Aug 01, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Description:Trauma can manifest in unexpected ways; understanding the principles of trauma aware teaching can lead to healthier engagement with individual students . This session delivered by staff from Berry Street focuses on how students who have experienced trauma can be supported, including understanding the different types of trauma experienced by students and strategies that will help manage the behaviours that result. While the focus will be on the classroom, there will also be an exploration of how whole school approaches can support teachers and students. The session will also be helpful for Education Support Staff who may be working one to one or with small groups.
Presenter: Cheree Taylor - Berry Street
Aug 09, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Description:Incorporating Indigenous perspectives effectively into the curriculum is beneficial to all students as well as First Nations students. This presentation will support you to engage effectively with First Nations pedagogical approaches. The focus will be on the use of Yarning Circles; the presenter has developed a structured approach to allow for yarning circles as a pedagogical approach in a formal classroom and the 8 ways pedagogy. The 8 ways pedagogy evolved from a research project involving educators, university staff and local Aboriginal communities. It is ‘a culturally safe point of entry for teachers to begin engaging with Aboriginal knowledge and cross-cultural dialogue in the community’. This course will increase your understanding and knowledge and provide practical examples for the classroom. You will also be given some ideas of where to find additional professional reading and teaching resources to support your practice.
Aug 15, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Description:Differentiation is a term that is often heard amongst teachers, though challenging to master. The varying learning stages that students step into your classroom, should make differentiation the default design when building content within the classroom. This session will introduce you to a technique of differentiation to support you in achieving better student outcomes when teaching Maths (or numeracy). Thin-slicing is one technique that you can use to cater to a wide range of abilities in your classroom. It is all in the planning - understanding the concept that you are teaching, breaking it down into its parts, and then creating layered activities that scaffold student learning. The process of narrow (hence the 'thin-slicing') to complex enables students to experience success and builds their confidence. The multi-layers to your topic ranging from entry to extended level can adapt to any classroom. In this session, an experienced Maths teacher will share examples of thin-slicing that have worked in the classroom. Suitable for middle years teachers (Years 5-9).
Aug 15, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Description:There has been an increase in the numbers of students who are suffering from anxiety in today’s classrooms. Early reports suggest that this level of anxiety may increase as students respond to the COVID pandemic. Feelings of anxiety will prevent students from engaging in learning or achieving their potential. These barriers can be frustrating for the teacher and the student and can often lead to the student removing themselves further from the learning community. In this course the presenter will explore techniques that you can use when you are working with students who suffer from anxiety, helping you to re-engage the students while they deal with their condition. Completing Managing the learning of students with anxiety will contribute 1 hour and 30 minutes of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Student/child Mental health addressing standard descriptor 4.2.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
Presenter: Megan Corcoran
Aug 29, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Description:Behaviour management is one of the more challenging issues teachers, schools, and school systems face on a day to day basis. National and international researchers agree that students who feel safe, supported, and connected are more likely to be active participants in their learning. In this session the presenter will focus on understanding of the need for, and use of, effective consequences when managing student behaviour; how to resolve problems with students by integrating a range of responsive strategies that educate and support the development of self-regulation and peer group discipline and strategies and approaches which promote a consistent and predictable classroom environment. Completing Behaviour Management - Making it Right will provide teachers in NSW with 2 hours of PD accredited through NESA addressing Standard 4.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
Aug 29, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Description:Leaders who promote wellbeing need to model good wellbeing strategies in their own personal and professional life. In this session the presenter will work with leaders on how to engage in 'self-care' that will hep them to provide effective leadership to their team. This can include identifying purpose, understanding your own strengths and weaknesses, building effective communication approaches, setting and observing boundaries, looking to your physical health, having well developed conflict resolution approaches and ensuring that you have opportunities to nurture your social, intellectual and creative self.
Sep 12, 2024 | 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Description:What happens when a student in our class becomes disengaged? What is within our control as a teacher to respond to the disengaged student? In this session the presenter will explore some of the common manifestations of disengaged students, some suggestions about why the student might have disengaged, and different approaches, to re-engage the students in the learning community. The key, as with so many behavioural issues, is preventative strategies and then restorative approaches once things have gone awry. This is a course for teachers who believe that all students not only have a right to learn but they want to learn, and that our challenge as teachers is to find ways to connect them to a learning community.
Sep 26, 2024 | 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Description:Teachers are the best people to support other teachers to develop and improve their practice. There is good evidence to show that peer observation is an effective form of teacher professional learning. In this session the presenter will explore a range of approaches to peer observation in schools, and suggest strategies that you can implement as a middle leader to a culture of positive peer feedback in the team that you lead.
Presenter: Claire Golledge
Oct 02, 2024 | 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Description:A Masterclass provides the opportunity to explore in depth a dimension of your teaching practice. It includes a review of your practice, revisiting core principles, understanding developments and innovations, and then reflecting on opportunities for change and improvement. In this Masterclass the focus is on feedback. There are two essential feedback channels, from teacher to student and from student to teacher. This Masterclass will explore techniques for implementing feedback strategies from teacher to student and how this feedback can improve student outcomes. When students give teachers feedback they are telling teachers how they are going in their learning, what progress they are making, and whether they know where to go next.
Presenter: Coby Beatson
Oct 02, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Description:We have all experienced a time when we lose a class - they become disengaged from the learning content and from us as their teacher. In this session the presenter will explore some of the common traits of classes that have disengaged, some possible reasons why that might have happened, and different approaches that could be used to re-engage the class. The key, as with so many behavioural issues, is preventative strategies and then restorative approaches once things have gone awry. This is a course for teachers who believe that they want all of their classes and all students to be actively engaged in their learning.
Oct 02, 2024 | 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Description:A Masterclass provides the opportunity to explore in depth a dimension of your teaching practice. It includes a review of your practice, revisiting core principles, understanding developments and innovations, and then reflecting on opportunities for change and improvement. In this session the focus is on formative assessment, often referred to as assessment ‘for learning’ and ‘as learning’. As with any assessment practice it is about how you gather, analyse and interpret evidence of student work, to make good judgements about improving student learning; judgements about ‘where to next’ for each student.
Presenter: David Innes
Oct 24, 2024 | 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Description:Teaching a class that contains one or more gifted students creates many exciting opportunities for teachers but also poses some challenges to planning engaging lessons. Differentiating effectively will help ensure gifted students are catered for and presenting lessons that allow multiple entry points will also stimulate thinking. This session will examine pedagogy that is most effective, how to ensure the curriculum is relevant and explore practical strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support gifted students.
Presenter: Bernadette Sheedy
Oct 24, 2024 | 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Description:Reflection and evaluation is an important element of leadership practice and personal wellbeing. You will have started the year with goals to achieve in your leadership role. Now is the time to reflect on your work during the year and assess your impact. It is the opportunity to celebrate your successes and to consolidate your own learning for the next school year. Reflection time, and especially reflecting in the company of others, helps us to identify how we can improve our own leadership. In this session the presenter will lead you through a series of reflective questions prompting you to reflect on where your wellbeing leadership made a positive difference and how you might keep building on your success.
Nov 21, 2024 | 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Description:Schools need high quality leadership to lead teams through the story of the students represented by the data that they are collecting. This leadership workshop will establish the importance of teams using data to analyse the impact of their work on student learning outcomes. The course will explore how to lead a team to identify helpful data and how that data can be used across a cohort of students whether that be an age group e.g. Year 6 or Year 9 or a curriculum area e.g. Mathematics. It is a course designed for leaders but will also benefit classroom teachers who are not yet in leadership roles.
Presenter: Selena Fisk