Professional Learning

Curriculum Design – a three-day Research Circle in Melbourne

Starting in September, ANSN and Hawker Brownlow Education will present a three-day Curriculum Design Research Circle, in Melbourne. It will take place on 1 and 2 September and 10 November, led by Gavin Grift, National Co-ordinator of the ANSN Curriculum Design Hub, and Director of the Association of Innovation in Education.

Curriculum Design – 2-day intensive workshops in Melbourne and Adelaide

Australian National Schools Network & Hawker Brownlow Education Presents.

CURRICULUM DESIGN

Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach - 2 Day Intensive Workshops

The Australian National Schools Network would like to invite all interested teachers (P-12) and Curriculum Leaders to attend our 2 day intensive workshops.

Report of the Digi Kids Workshop in Adelaide, July 2008

By Hanan Harrison

Participants of the Adelaide Digi Kids continued to be challenged on their digital journey when they attended Days 3 and 4 of their Hub workshops. Their first challenge was to develop and create a claymation. The focus was not only to develop skills for the production, but also to develop a philosophy of technology integration where participants would reflect critically on their own pedagogical practices, to develop a meaningful context for introducing claymation as an additional medium for story telling, which could be used to support various literacy outcomes including recount, narratives and procedural genres, as well as a tool for reinforcing other curriculum outcomes.

Cognitive Coaching Research Circle

Learn Coaching Skills to Support Teaching and Learning in Your School!

Australian National Schools Network and The Center for Cognitive Coaching present:

Schools conversing together: Action Learning through Coaching.

Communicate, Collaborate and Create

The Australian National Schools Network would like to invite all interested teachers (P-12) to attend our 2 day workshop titled Communicate, Collaborate and Create which allows participants to actively investigate and explore the potential of on-line tools and their capacity to radically change education in the future.

Throughout the hands-on workshop participants will explore and create their own on-line tools including (but not limited to) blogs, wikis and podcasts, within an educational context.  This workshop will challenge teachers thinking about what could happen to education if these tools become mainstream as an integral tool for learning.

Interactive Whiteboard Hub 2009 - Information sessions

For the last 2 years the Australian National Schools Network has been facilitating a new professional learning program for teachers focusing on the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom. Over 200 teachers have taken part in the program since 2006 and participants gain a wealth of technical knowledge as well as taking part in the pedagogical discussions around the question “How do interactive whiteboards improve teacher pedagogy and student learning outcomes?”

During August and September we would like to give you and your school the opportunity to attend an information session to learn more about the Interactive Whiteboard program being offered again in 2009.

Protocols registration form

For a decade, ANSN has been exploring the premise that if teachers and students produce learning together, the evidence of that learning can be found in the students’ work. To help explore this further, Protocols can help us structure our conversations about the associated challenges and feedback. They can be used to help us learn from each other by having productive conversations and they can help us learn from the students by providing us with structured ways to look at student work.

Habits of Mind - Next Steps

Art Costa, co-author and originator of the Habits of Mind, teams up with the Australian National Schools Network Hub leaders James Anderson, Tina Doe and Hanan Harrison, to present a powerful learning opportunity.

Digi kids Snapshot no.1 - Integrating Technology in the Early Years Classroom

A series of Snapshots is being developed around the experience and practice of teachers in the Digi Kids program. The first in the series looks at Lynda Page’s work on Integrating Technology in the Early Years Classroom.  A teacher for more than 20 years, Lynda works at Coolum Beach State School, in Queensland. She has been a keen participant in the Digi Kids program, which is co-ordinated by Hanan Harrison. In developing the Snapshot, she worked with Keith Redman, Editor of E-News and this Snapshot series.