Opportunities

Professional Learning Opportunities that can be tailored to you needs.

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.


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

ccc flyerThe 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.

Cognitive Coaching – A series of professional learning days

In Victoria, towards the end of July, ANSN and the Center for Cognitive Coaching℠. will be presenting "Learning to Coach, Coaching to Learn – A series of Professional Learning Days". Each of the days in the series has been designed either to introduce or extend participants’ knowledge on the principles of Cognitive Coaching℠, which was developed in the US by Art Costa and Robert Garmston.


Technology workshop for early childhood educators

The Australian National Schools Network in conjunction with Edith Cowan University would like to invite early childhood educators within the Perth district to participate in a 2 day Digi-Kids Workshop opportunity.

The hands-on workshop provides opportunity for participants to explore and develop strategies how technology can be integrated through a play based curriculum.


Mindfulness By Design - 3 day workshop

The Australian National Schools Network presents

Mindfulness By Design

Leading School Change with Habits of Mind in Mind

November 12 - 14, 2008

Led by Art Costa and James Anderson 

Click on the flyer for more detailsClick on the flyer for more detailsThis three-day workshop is specifically designed for teachers and principals in schools that are striving towards developing a thinking oriented school culture based on the Habits of Mind.

Participants are assumed to have a good understanding of the Habits of Mind and to have been working towards infusing the Habits of Mind in their settings for at least one year. Most schools participating in the workshop will be, or have been, members of the Habits of Mind Hub although any school that can demonstrate significant work and commitment towards infusing the Habits of Mind into school culture will be welcomed.


Mindfulness By Design - Online Registration

Leading School Change with Habits of Mind in Mind
November 12 - 14, 2008

Led by Art Costa


W.A. Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) HUB

IWB Do you share the following goals?
  • investigate IWB technology as a tool for improving student learning outcomes through classroom structures.
  • improve your technological knowledge and support in using IWB’s
  • set up an online space where resources can be stored and shared
  • increase your network of colleagues who can provide IWB support
The ANSN invites Teachers to an Interactive Whiteboard Hub, where we will explore these goals in 6 evening workshops (two per Term). This Hub will cater for users of all IWB boards and software.

Science and Maths IWB PD

This course is for Science and Mathematics Secondary teachers who have a Promethean ACTIVboard.

The course will be run by Kate Cooper nee Seabrook (IWB Specialist ) and Tony Lahy . Tony Lahy has been a Physics and Mathematics teacher at Norwood Secondary College since 1990. His involvement with Interactive Whiteboards began in 2005 as part of the Leading Schools Fund rollout. As a Lead Learner at Norwood, Tony was responsible for the implementation of technology into the teaching and learning programs.