Australian Curriculum: Secondary History HODs and Teachers

Start:  Tuesday 21 August 2012 - 08:45am

Finish: Tuesday 21 August 2012 - 03:00pm

Location : SSTUWA Office, Education & Training Centre, 150-152 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth.

Availability:  6 places remaining

Fact: The WA Curriculum Framework is the legislated mandated curriculum in this state.

Fact: Formal implementation of the Australian Curriculum commenced in July 2012

Fact: The Australian Curriculum does not include information about pedagogy and practice; but we do… and we can!

The Union is providing practical support for members: to manage the change, to minimise workload, and to enjoy the professional decision making opportunities.

• Provide quality professional development that matches the implementation phase of your school and/or learning area
• Engage you in valid, interactive and practical knowledge building forums
• Explore the Australian Curriculum as you build a bank of strategies and resources for planning, teaching and assessment; specific to your learning area
• Promote best practice and pedagogy including concept driven inquiry, and differentiated learning for special needs students, and gifted and talented learners
• Strategize for change management in the workplace in areas such as structures, processes and reporting
• Develop and utilise technology to enable flexible learning and alternative modes of delivery

Professional learning programs have been designed for primary and secondary teachers, and curriculum leaders / administrators.

All teachers will achieve the following outcomes:

• An understanding of the Australian Curriculum structure and accountability requirements
• Access to sequenced programmes to meet the accountability requirements.
• Choose and adapt classroom ready ‘Teaching units’ with teaching notes, student learning activities, assessment tasks, and targeted online resources.
• Build personal capacity to use ICT for planning – teaching – learning, including use of computers and Ipads in classrooms.

Secondary Teachers will also have dedicated subject workshops for: English, Mathematics, Science, History / SOSE – that link existing programmes to the Australian Curriculum.

Curriculum leaders can adopt a whole of school approach with dedicated software that provides fast, efficient and effective processes for: communication, planning, assessment, sharing, and accountability.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPTIONS

• 1. Within school PD – ongoing rotating groups + after school workshops.
• 2. Full day and half day courses at the Union.

Facilitators

A TEAM OF SPECIALLY TRAINED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS WILL DELIVER TARGETED PD FOR YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS/SUBJECT AREA.

Details - Contact: Phone: (08) 9210 6035 / (08) 9210 6042 - FAX: (08) 9210 6089 Email: training @sstuwa.org.au

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