Please note this course has been postponed: click here to register your interest and we will contact you when the new dates have been scheduled.

 This course is also available on demand - if you would like to discuss the possibility of bringing this course to your school or region please click here

This three day professional learning opportunity has been specifically designed to support teachers to develop deeper levels of understanding on how curriculum that involves community partnerships can be utilised to strengthen teaching and learning. This work draws from the 2007 ANSN Curriculum Planning Action Research Hub.

Learning in the broader community becomes where children and adults find the pleasure of playing, working, talking, thinking, and inventing things together. They are engaged in learning how the existence and relationships of things and people can be sought out, improved upon and enjoyed together. This will lead to a reworking of children’s potentials, the processes and values involved in the development of the child, his/her knowledge and culture. Schools operating as a human system within a global environment are able to survive, develop, and transform by experiencing, owning and integrating differences.

The purpose of this professional learning program is to support teachers in understanding how to design curriculum which:

• Empowers and engages students and communities together to find solutions to local, state, and national problems.
• Involve students in the democratic process of change Create and strengthen school-community partnerships Educate and excite
• Build a network of educators engaged in evolving their own learning of socially critical curriculum planning.
• Reflects the six phases of the ‘Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach’ curriculum planning process
• Promotes the ‘process of design’ as opposed to a ‘proforma for design’
• Reflects the criteria for effective teaching and learning through utilising both international, national and local research (Harvard University, University of South Australia and ANSN)
• Emphasises methods that leads to ‘depth’ vs. ‘coverage’ Broadens the use of thinking tools in ways that correspond with relevant points of the learning journey
• Demonstrates how you can design the learning experience to promote the ‘gradual release of
  responsibility’
• Sets challenging and relevant learning tasks
  Reflects inquiry based learning in meaningful, supportive and practical ways
• Manages the tension between negotiated curriculum and teacher directed instruction
• Enables participants to reflect on current planning against the criteria presented in this workshop
• Serves the learner

Download the pdf flyer below for more information and registration.

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