2008 Program - Seminars by Subject
The following pages detail the exciting topics and professional speakers that we have planned for the coming year across such areas as:
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Seminar Fees
Seminar Fee: $175 per person incl. gst (morning tea and lunch will be provided)
Seminar Program
8.30am – 9.00am |
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Registration |
10.30am |
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Morning Tea |
12.30pm |
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Lunch |
3.00pm |
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Seminar Close |
LITERACY
A Closer Look at GUIDED READING NEW!
David Hornsby (K-4)
During this highly practical and interactive seminar David will discuss:
- Literature: the heart and soul of your reading program
- The important place of guided reading
- Ensuring that we help children become motivated, enthusiastic readers
- Shared reading to focus on learning reading strategies and guided reading to focus on using them (helping children become strategic readers)
- Grouping for guided reading - and what to do with ‘the others’
- The use and ABUSE of leveled texts
- Guiding their reading of fiction and non-fiction
- The common features of a guided reading session
- Differences in guided reading across the developmental stages
In this seminar, David will include the use of children’s books to demonstrate typical guided reading sessions.
Dates and Venues
NSW
Wednesday 12 March 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
VIC
Friday 14 March 2008
Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre
Cnr Bell Street & Georges Road
Preston VIC
QLD
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
SA
Wednesday 14 May 2008
The Sebel Playford
120 North Terrace
Adelaide SA
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
SPELLING – What’s It All About? NEW!
David Hornsby (K-6)
Spelling is not about the teaching of words! So what is it about?
During this in-depth seminar the following issues will be discussed:
- How do we help students become strategic spellers?
- What are the developmental stages in spelling and why do we need to understand them?
- How do we assess spelling in ways that inform our teaching?
- What teaching procedures help students move through the developmental stages?
- Spelling and phonics at the early developmental stages
- A six-step procedure for helping students move from semiphonetic spelling to phonetic spelling
- Procedures for helping students move from phonetic spelling to transitional and conventional spelling
- Teaching spelling through reading
- Teaching spelling through writing
- Organising a three-strand program that caters for whole class, small group and individual learning
- What’s the truth about ‘standards’ in spelling? Is spelling really worse today than in previous times?
Dates and Venues
NSW
Tuesday 9 September 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
VIC
Thursday 11 September 2008
Hemisphere Conference Centre
488 South Road
Moorabbin VIC
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Bringing WRITING to LIFE in your Classroom!
Tony Stead (P-6)
In this dynamic and impacting seminar, Tony will share his proven instructional strategies for teaching students to become effective writers of both fiction and non-fiction. He will show you how to teach your kids to be “real writers” for “real purposes”.
During this seminar Tony will share:
- Proven methods to teach your students how to successfully write for different purposes
- Seven Essential Steps for teaching writing
- How to plan your writing program for the year
- Making links with content studies
- Practical and effective assessment strategies to guide your teaching and improve student achievement
- Innovative techniques that excite and motivate kids
- How to provide whole class, small group and individual activities to reach ALL your kids
- Effective ways to manage the writing block
- Giving children a structure to help them write,
- Overcoming the “I don’t know what to write about” syndrome
- Teaching the conventions of writing such as punctuation and spelling
Date and Venue
Monday 28 April 2008
Hemisphere Conference Centre
488 South Road
Moorabbin VIC
* Due to heavy writing commitments Tony will only be presenting in Melbourne during 2008.
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Reading!
What Kids Need to Know and How to Teach It!
Tony Stead (P-6)
During this highly practical seminar Tony will share great ideas to organize your classroom which allow you to cater for the reading needs of all your students.
Issues to be addressed will include:
- A look at the key elements of a balanced reading program
- Identifying the strategies students need to be confident and competent readers
- How to teach comprehension
- The importance of read aloud
- Strategies and focuses for shared reading and guided reading
- The importance of independent reading
- Making the link between read aloud, shared reading, guided reading and independent reading
- How to fit it all together (scheduling)
- Strategies in class management
- Great ways to monitor student’s progress
Date and Venue
VIC
Monday 8 September 2008
The Karralyka Centre
Mines Road
Ringwood VIC
* Due to heavy writing commitments Tony will only be presenting in Melbourne during 2008.
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT
Behaviour Management: A Whole-School Approach
Bill Rogers (K-12)
During this seminar Bill will discuss:
- Positive discipline and the importance of consistency across school behaviour management policy and practice
- Particular skills in the language of discipline — verbal and non-verbal
- Techniques for managing rudeness, violence, bullying and aggression
- Methods to use with students with ‘behaviour disorders’
- The 4Rs — rights, rules, responsibilities and routines
- Behaviour agreements — ‘contracts’
- Playground management
- How to set up a behaviour management plan and express it in a policy
These important matters are presented in an entertaining style by someone who is clearly able to stand in a teacher’s shoes.
Dates and Venues
NSW
Friday 29 February 2008
Waterview Convention Centre
Bicentennial Park
Sydney Olympic Park NSW
QLD
Friday 28 March 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
VIC
Friday 18 April 2008
The Karralyka Centre
Mines Road
Ringwood VIC
WA
Friday 9 May 2008
Willow Ponds Reception Centre
Lot 55 Nicholson Road
Canning Vale WA
SA
Friday 8 August 2008
Holiday Inn
56 Hindley Street
Adelaide SA
NSW
Friday 15 August 2008
National Maritime Museum
2 Murray Street
Darling Harbour NSW
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Teach More, Manage Less:
A Minimalist Approach to Behaviour Management
Christine Richmond (K-12)
This seminar is targeted at primary and secondary teachers who aspire to update and refine their behaviour management practices. The models developed by Dr Richmond evolved from school-based research in behaviour management and are unique to the field. This work is particularly useful for its elegant simplicity and its generic application. No matter what behaviour management approach participants prefer, they will leave with techniques for:
- Minimising managing time and maximising learning time
- Defusing student power plays
- Managing provocative and challenging student behaviour.
- Gaining (or regaining) assertive learning leadership in the classroom
- Recovering rapidly from stressful situations
- Designing a minimalist management plan
- Reflecting on their current practices
Dates and Venues
QLD
Friday 16 May 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
SA
Friday 23 May 2008
Holiday Inn
56 Hindley Street
Adelaide SA
NSW
Tuesday 27 May 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
VIC
Thursday 29 May 2008
The Karralyka Centre
Mines Road
Ringwood VIC
Seminar Fee:$175 per person
Understanding Your Students' Behaviour!
Greg Mitchell (K-12)
I gave them a social skills test ... but the results were negative!
During this hands-on seminar Greg will show teachers how to turn classrooms from 'hell with fluorescent lights' into working environments that everyone can enjoy.
Under the guidance of Greg Mitchell you will learn about:
- Teaching a social skill
- Understanding emotional development
- Conflict resolution win/win approaches to behaviour management
- Self-discipline and emotional control
- Proactive and reactive approaches for parents
- Creating co-operative learning experiences that remove 90% of common behaviour issues.
In addition Greg will offer loads of hands-on strategies and tonnes of internet support.
Be warned his approach is practice-driven, not paper-based, and requires a healthy sense of humour.
Dates and Venues
VIC
Tuesday 17 June 2008
The Karralyka Centre
Mines Road
Ringwood VIC
NSW
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Waterview Convention Centre
Bicentennial Park
Sydney Olympic Park NSW
QLD
Friday 20 June 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Children with Special Needs NEW!
Ian Lillico (K-12)
This seminar will explore teaching, motivating and managing young people with special needs
in schools. There will be an emphasis on two major groups –
Children with Autism
and
Children with ADD/ADHD
Ian will discuss the role of diet, medication, exercise and other techniques in their management and treatment. He will discuss other factors that are often co-morbid to ADHD and the reality that nature rarely gives young people just one affliction - they come in multiples.
Ian will offer behaviour management techniques for these youngsters who are most often highly intelligent, but not necessarily in a routine and predictable way.
Ian will share the latest research in these two areas as well as looking at some of the other special needs young people have such as being bullied, family dysfunction, CAPD and many others.
Participants will be given the opportunity to raise issues they are facing as classroom teachers and compare and contrast techniques that work.
The aim of the seminar is to give teachers a fuller understanding of these special children and to discus ways of assisting them to achieve their maximum potential at school.
Dates and Venues
VIC
Wednesday 7 May 2008
Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre
Cnr Bell Street & Georges Road
Preston VIC
NSW
Friday 9 May 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
QLD
Friday 15 August 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
LEADERSHIP
Behaviour Management for School Leaders
Christine Richmond
(K-12 Principals, Deputy Principals & Executive Teachers)
This seminar provides an intensive opportunity for those who are responsible for supervising and/or mentoring the work of colleagues to update their behaviour management practice.
The content in this seminar is congruent with the entire range of contemporary behaviour management approaches commonly used in schools today. For example, if the behaviour management approach of your school is influenced by Ford’s Responsible Thinking Process, Glasser’s Choice Theory, Canter and Canter’s Assertive Discipline, Rogers’ work, or is one designed by school staff to fit the unique dynamics of your school, this workshop will help you to apply those plans and strategies more effectively. ‘More effectively’ means helping you and your staff to spend more time teaching and less time managing.
During this seminar Christine will:
- Focus on refreshing your behaviour management understandings and skills.
- Provide practical helping skills for working effectively with colleagues, parents and students who are under pressure, including:
- Strategies for defusing angry adults and students
- Understanding and dealing with resistance in the workplace
- Detecting time consuming, pointless interventions
- Constructing minimal interventions that are likely to be successful
- Dealing with crises
- Re-entry interviews after suspension.
Dates and Venues
QLD
Friday 25 July 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
SA
Friday 22 August 2008
Holiday Inn
56 Hindley Street
Adelaide SA
NSW
Tuesday 26 August 2008
Waterview Convention Centre
Bicentennial Park
Sydney Olympic Park NSW
VIC
Thursday 28 August 2008
The Karralyka Centre
Mines Road
Ringwood VIC
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
BOYS' EDUCATION
Educating Boys: Making a Difference
Ian Lillico (K-12)
This seminar will outline contemporary practice in engaging boys in their school years and outline strategies and practices that are working in Australia and overseas. Ian will discuss 'good practice' around Australia as a result of his work in many schools throughout Australia and overseas.
Ian will:
- Identify boys' specific needs in the classroom and compare the ways that boys and girls learn
- Emphasise the need to ensure that boys and girls both progress and keep engaged during their primary, middle years and senior years of schooling
- Discuss pastoral care, behavioural issues, literacy strategies, peer pressure and the type of classroom and school environments that maximise learning and engagement.
Dates and Venues
NSW
Monday 11 August 2008
Waterview Convention Centre
Bicentennial Park
Sydney Olympic Park NSW
VIC
Wednesday 13 August 2008
Hemisphere Conference Centre
488 South Road
Moorabbin VIC
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Boys Will Be Boys
Greg Mitchell (K-12)
If you give a boy enough rope ... he'll bring a stray dog home on the end of it!
Despite the fact that we love our boys they do not always perform anywhere near as well as they should. This seminar is stuffed full of humour, challenge and practical teaching strategies that will have you and your students performing to the best of your abilities. (Noting that what we do for our boys improves our girls' performance as well.)
This seminar looks at:
- Where boys are at in academic, emotional and practical terms
- How we can improve boys' academic performances
- Boys and literacy (in secondary as well as primary school)
- What must happen if things are really going to change.
Dates and Venues
SA
Thursday 26 June 2008
The Sebel Playford
120 North Terrace
Adelaide SA
NSW
Friday 12 September 2008
Waterview Convention Centre
Bicentennial Park
Sydney Olympic Park NSW
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
LEARNING STYLES/THINKING SKILLS
Learning with the Brain in Mind! - NEW!
John Joseph (K -12)
The past decade has seen an explosion of information about the brain and its function. More has been learnt about the functioning of the human brain in the last decade than in all the preceding centuries. Applied to classroom practice, this information affirms many elements of taken-for-granted teaching practice, and challenges numerous others. This seminar provides a comprehensive approach to practice congruent with brain theory. There is a strong balance between theory and practical classroom application.
During this seminar John will explore:
- The Four Worlds – identifying individual talents and strengths
- How the human brain develops and learns
- An animated tour of the human brain – brilliant graphics and riveting commentary
- Growing dendrites – the amazing plasticity of the child’s brain
- The effects of stress, boredom and enrichment on brains
- The critical role of nutrition, exercise and sleep for optimum learning
- Developmental windows of opportunity – sensitive periods of development
- Information Processing Models and links to Learning Styles
- Recognising and working with student Learning Styles
- How to use feedback to enhance student learning
- Using graphic organizers to make learning memorable
- A range of learning strategies for optimum learning performance
Dates and Venues
QLD
Friday 6 June 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
VIC
Thursday 26 June 2008
Hemisphere Conference Centre
488 South Road
Moorabbin VIC
NSW
Friday 27 June 2008
Waterview Convention Centre
Bicentennial Park
Sydney Olympic Park NSW
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Lift-off to Learning! NEW!
Michael Pohl (K-12)
As we teach for deeper understanding in constructivist classrooms, how might we best apply the wide range of thinking strategies at our disposal?
During this seminar Michael works systematically through the various phases of the Inquiry Approach to teaching and learning, suggesting when is it best to:
- Use structures like Blooms Taxonomy
- Introduce tools of critical and creative thinking
- Apply graphic organisers
- Provide questioning frameworks for students
- Integrate ICT to develop skills and enhance student products.
This seminar will suit those classroom teachers at all levels of schooling who have a solid understanding of a range of thinking tools but want to know where best to place them to maximise their impact in inquiry-based learning topics.
Dates and Venues
QLD
Tuesday 27 May 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
SA
Wednesday 4 June 2008
The Sebel Playford
120 North Terrace
Adelaide SA
VIC
Wednesday 30 July 2008
Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre
Cnr Bell Street & Georges Road
Preston VIC
NSW
Tuesday 2 September 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Designing the Thinking Curriculum in Your School NEW!
Michael Pohl (K-12)
The infusing of thinking into content delivery, the use of the language of thinking and the explicit teaching of thinking is becoming a necessary and ever-present feature of classroom practice.
The issue faced by many school leaders is how can such methodology be imbedded within and across the school – as part of the on-going culture of every classroom?
Drawing on results of nearly a decade of working with many schools across Australia and New Zealand, it became clear that when schools have a clear vision; take small steps with a big picture in mind; provide quality training and support to teachers who continually monitor, reflect on and refine their practice – whole school change can easily be embraced by everyone.
During this intensive seminar Michael will:
- Outline a five-step process that will assist school and curriculum leaders at all levels in implementing a whole-school approach to infusing thinking into the curriculum
- Provide frameworks for ensuring that practices such as the explicit teaching of thinking becomes an enduring part of the culture of the school.
Dates and Venues
NSW
Tuesday 20 May 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Teachers & Students as Questioners NEW!
Michael Pohl (K-12)
Questions and questioning may well be the most powerful tool we have for teaching and learning. Teachers ask good questions – they are well trained to do just that. But when left to their own devices, do they ask a good range of questions and do they develop learning activities that will see students engaging in a balanced range of thinking tasks?
This seminar will:
- Challenge teachers at all levels of schooling to examine their questioning skills
- Demonstrate the need for structures to provide a balanced range of questions and activities that will evoke qualitatively different forms of thinking
- Introduce the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and examine how it may best applied to meet some of the challenges ever-present in today’s classrooms
- Showcase the revised Thinkers Keys and other questioning frameworks to enhance student’s ability to generate not just questions, but quality questions that are worthwhile questions for inquiry.
Dates and Venues
NSW
Wednesday 19 March 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
SA
Thursday 14 August 2008
The Sebel Playford
120 North Terrace
Adelaide SA
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Inspiring Classrooms
Strategies for Creating Classrooms that Inspire the Students & YOU! NEW!
Tony Ryan (K-12)
Classrooms are all about learning. Let’s not distract ourselves here. In spite of the plethora of social and technological issues that are endlessly foisted upon school curriculum, our key focus must always be placed upon the quality of the students’ learning experiences.
Yet, these learning experiences can no longer be fashioned by tedium and rote learning behaviours. The competition is too strong these days. Already, there are online learning opportunities that can create the magic and action that stimulate young brains in 2008.
Our response to all of this? One option is to develop energetic and spirited classrooms that actually encourage students to return, day after day. If you were a student, would you want to be in your classroom each day? In fact, even at your present age, do you want to be in your classroom each day??
This practical and entertaining seminar will provide succinct pedagogical outlines that can create a vibrant and productive classroom for young people. Perhaps, even an inspiring classroom! Yet this type of environment can only be created by those who are inspiring in themselves.
Thus, this session also will directly challenge you to determine your own level of commitment and inspiration to your daily work. Inspiring teachers change the world. Are you one of these?
Dates and Venues
QLD
Thursday 12 June 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
NSW
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Waterview Convention Centre
Bicentennial Park
Sydney Olympic Park NSW
SA
Tuesday 2 September 2008
The Sebel Playford
120 North Terrace
Adelaide SA
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Strategies for Cooperative Thinking and Learning NEW!
Eric Frangenheim (K-12)
During this highly practical seminar Eric will share a range of exciting strategies that will ensure all learners are engaged during team or group work - encouraging a sense of ownership, fulfillment and motivation.
Eric will lead seminar participants through these strategies where roles will be clearly defined and the synergy of each group will lead to greater results.
Participants will experience the:
- Silent Card Shuffle
- Silent or Noisy Round Robin
- Pairs with RAS Alert to improve student data retention
- Think:Pair:Four:Share to refine debate
- Expert Jigsaw to help students share the load of research
- Hot Potato to encourage full participation
- Judge-Jury debating strategy
- 1:4:P:C:R to process a problem leading to a solution or simply for any design project.
All of these strategies are used within the context of a Thinking Skills Framework ensuring that the facilitator has a clear and exact cognitive purpose when using each cooperative tool.
Dates and Venues
VIC
Monday 19 May 2008
Hemisphere Conference Centre
488 South Road
Moorabbin VIC
NSW
Tuesday 5 August 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
QLD
Wednesday 10 September 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
The Inquiring Classroom
Kath Murdoch (P-6)
In this practical seminar for primary teachers, Kath Murdoch will share a wide range of strategies and procedures that enable students to use an inquiry approach to their learning. Inquiry based learning has long been recognized as a powerful means with which to develop students’ skills as learners – particularly in the areas of thinking, collaborative learning and self management. There are many ways in which teachers can create environments and plan experiences for learners to facilitate the development of skills and understandings through inquiry. During the day, Kath will address the following questions:
- How can we assist students in designing and working with questions of their own?
- What strategies are useful ones for students to have in their ‘tool kit’ for learning?
- How can we support students in managing their learning and developing more independence in their work?
- What frameworks can we use to plan units of inquiry with students?
- What can we do to stimulate and build on students’ curiosity?
- What contexts/topics/projects suit inquiry based learning?
- How can we help students develop an understanding of themselves as learners during the process of inquiry?
This seminar will include an inspiring mix of practical activities and examples from real classrooms.
Date and Venue
VIC
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre
Cnr Bell Street & Georges Road
Preston VIC
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
PLANNING & PROGRAMMING
Homework and the Homework Grid NEW!
Ian Lillico (K-12)
Every State and Territory is currently reviewing Homework as a result of research indicating changes in the way that young people learn, socialize and interact as well as research into the changing world of work, family changes and the major impacts of modern technology.
This seminar will explore the issues of relevance, quantity and quality of homework in primary schools and identify areas where we can make homework more relevant and meaningful for students, teachers and parents.
Ian will outline the theory behind the Homework Grid concept that looks at the inclusion as homework of more active items including –
Physical Activity, Shopping, Housework, Stress Management, Being read to, Cultural pursuits, Playing games, Teaching parents and a number of other activities as part of fortnightly homework.
Participants will have the opportunity to share how they have embraced new approaches to homework in their school and the challenges they faced. The day will include a planning session where participants can plan for the introduction of the homework grid concept in their schools. The day will conclude with a question and answer session on implementation and general concerns.
Dates and Venues
SA
Wednesday 26 March 2008
The Sebel Playford
120 North Terrace
Adelaide SA
NSW
Friday 28 March 2008
The Stamford Grand
Cnr Epping & Herring Roads
North Ryde NSW
WA
Monday 31 March 2008
Willow Ponds Reception Centre
Lot 55 Nicholson Road
Canning Vale WA
QLD
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Holiday Inn
Roma Street
Brisbane QLD
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
Planning and Teaching Powerful Integrated Units
Kath Murdoch (K-6)
Teaching through integrated inquiry offers teachers and students a wonderful opportunity for rich, connected and engaging learning. These units are effective vehicles for teaching skills and qualities associated with becoming a ‘life long learner’. In integrated inquiry, students learn to learn while they are learning about ‘the way the world works’.
In this dynamic and practical seminar, Kath Murdoch will share some innovative ideas for planning and implementing inquiry based integrated curriculum in the early and middle years. By sharing a range of examples from real classrooms and engaging participants in hands on strategies, Kath will address the following questions:
- How do we choose rich and engaging topics or issues for inquiry?
- How can we link our planning to the interests, questions and needs of students?
- What frameworks can we use to plan systematically and collaboratively?
- How can we make meaningful links between learning areas?
- What teaching and learning strategies can be used to implement a quality unit of work?
- How can we document our planning efficiently?
- How can we help students link their learning to ‘real life’ – to do something meaningful with their learning?
- How can teams work together more efficiently to plan and evaluate a powerful unit
This seminar will interest teachers from the early to middle years of schooling.
Dates and Venues
NSW
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Waterview Convention Centre
Bicentennial Park
Sydney Olympic Park NSW
Seminar Fee: $175 per person
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