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Professional Learning Workshops
 
 
Planning Simplified
 
Certificate One
 
Answer key planning questions
  • Why we teach:  outcomes simplified
  • What we teach.  When: Scope & Sequence
  • How:  units, strategies, learning activities.
  • With what:  identify and manage resources
  • So what:  assessment.  Valid tasks.
  • How well: criteria, standards, rubrics
  • For whom: negotiate the learning
 
      Focus on teaching
 
 
Personal Planning
 
Certificate Two
 
Use the ‘One-stop-shop’ for efficient planning
  • Curriculum organisation and development
  • Use a curriculum organisational structure
  • Choose and adapt plans for your classroom
  • Import existing plans
  • Plan, monitor, record, track outcomes
  • Prepare Scope and Sequence charts
  • Prepare teaching units, learning activities. 
  • Identify, select resources. Create folders.  
  • Assessment tasks: criteria, standards. 
  • Record results.  
 
      ‘Use ours  -  use yours  -  use theirs’
 
 
Applied Curriculum Planning
 
Certificate 3
 
How to be a curriculum creator
  • Identify the ‘Intent / Purpose’ eg investigation
  • Select appropriate outcomes to be attained
  • Examine / adapt ‘Scope and Sequence’ charts
  • Create integrated units. Graphic organisers
  • Choose appropriate learning activities
  • Identify, access resources
  • Assessment: valid tasks, criteria, standards.
  • Recording formats for reporting.
       ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­‘Create your own’
 
 
Assessment and Evaluation
 
Certificate 4
 
Use feedback for  improvement
  • Types and purposes of assessment
  • System policy: outcomes, criteria, standards
  • Assessment tasks: criteria, standards.
  • Assessment records  related to reporting.
 
Targeted Literacy and Numeracy Planning
  • Evaluate Year 3 5 7 test data
  • Identify priority areas and prepare explicit plans.
  • Incorporate into Scope and Sequence charts.
  • Criteria and standards to measure progress.

      Maximise results  

 
Curriculum Leadership
 
Certificate 1
 
Curriculum organisation and coordination.
 
  Implementation plan: Purpose, flow of processes
  • Outcomes Overviews: Plan, monitor, record, track, communicate, accountability.
  • Scope and sequence maps.  Developmental plan.
  • Graphic organisers: Intention, unit overview
  • Teacher plans: linked plans, activities, schedules
  • ‘why, what, how, with what, so what, how well’
  • Assessment: tasks, criteria, standards. Monitor
  • Assessment records  formats, linked to planning
  • Professional learning: teacher needs, priorities.
 
      Shared  planning processes
 
 
Head of Curriculum
 
Certificate 2
 
Adopt a ‘ whole of school’ approach
  • Connecting policy and practice
  • Understanding change management process: policy – procedures – practices - supervision.
  • Determine school priorities /system policy
  • Plan, coordinate, monitor, record, report
  • Checklists and time-lines. 1- 4 Year plans.
  • Central Document Set: set-up, processes.
  • Allocate roles, responsibilities, resources
           Cumulative and collaborative curriculum
 
 
Principals Curriculum Leadership
 
Certificate
 
Establish a ‘School-based curriculum branch’
  • Connect policy and practice
  • Implementation plan: coordinate, decision flow
  • Incorporate system and school priorities
  • Establish ’School based curriculum centre’
  • Prepare unit / term plan and rolling 4 year plan
  • Allocate roles, responsibilities, resources
  • Use ICT for coordination, supervision
  • Analysis of system test results
  • Change management. Processes
  • Professional learning coordination
 
      Mobilise the power of the group
 
 
 
Using ICT - for Planning
 
Certificate 1
 
 ICT Integrated Planning
  • Produce personal documents using ICT
  • Select, adapt exemplars - navigate, view
  • Apply processes: save, copy, delete, print
  • Structure for easy access, storage, sharing
  • Create your own ‘contents-menu’
  • Import and organise planning documents
  • Colour coding to plan, monitor, track
  • Easy resource management. Annotated sites
  • Connecting all with hyperlinks
  • Cumulative and collaborative planning
 
      'Pick – Click - Plan'
 
 
Using ICT – for Teaching / Learning
 
Certificate 2
 
  ICT connecting teaching and learning
  • Use ICT to negotiate the curriculum
  • Lnk curriculum (plan) to pedagogy (action)
  • Apply ICT to learning process. Select strategies.
  • Access ICT activities and student resources
  • Use easy connected student assessment records.
  • Engaging students in use of technology.
 
Case study:  WWW virtual tour. “It’s a big world ...’
 
Its so easy”
 
 
Workshop Details
 
Participants: teachers, curriculum leaders, principals.
 
Certification:  Participants receive Certification,
 
Teacher re-accreditation:  Requirements  attained.
 
Professional Development programs: can be customised according to school goals / priorities.
 
Trade-off  PD programs can be arranged.
 
Flexible Delivery: eg School Development Days. ‘Twilight sessions’. Within school small
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