ANSN Projects

The ANSN has a range of projects that it is engaged in and they can be grouped around the following themes:
  1. Rethinking Schooling - supporting schools and systems to review, rethink and redesign their work.
  2. Exploring new ideas and technology - connect with teachers nationally as they explore and research new ideas and critically reflect and reform their practises so that teaching and learning in their schools becomes more effective.
  3. Building capacity in schools and communities - pioneer partnerships with other stakeholders in education. To share the practices that emerge from our work with schools and community so that they can build their own capacity to provide safe, equitable and effective learning environments.

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.

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Educating for a Sustainable Future 2005-2007

Overview


The You Yangs Learning Community Cluster (YYLC) has worked with Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies (CERES) and other environmental sustainability education agencies to enable schools to work effectively with community partners.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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Update on Connecting Lives and Learning

Andrew Bills, ANSN Networker in SA, has circulated a paper and a powerpoint that gives a summary of the Connecting Lives and Learning (CLL) project. As described in previous editions of E-News, CLL has developed out of the earlier Redesigning Pedagogies in the North Project and is now expanding from its South Australian base to become a national venture. To get the project happening nationally, facilitated by the ANSN, Networkers have been working together during April, and plan to keep in contact via Skype video conferences.

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