Learning Centre
Professional
Development
Noah and Saskia
 
  2009 Professional development workshops (Victoria):  
     
  Workshop 1:  
 
Backyard Science : enhancing science literacy in the primary classroom.
  
 
This interactive workshop provides an overview of the Backyard Science Primary Teaching Resource (DVD ROM) and involves participants in conducting simple science experiments. Participants will discuss the Primary Connections 5 Es teaching framework with a view of developing a classroom program that encourages science thinking and science literacy. The workshop highlights relevant VELS outcomes and how teachers can utilize related curriculum resources to excite children about science.

  
  • Storytelling in a television series
  • Transition and adolescence
  • Identity
  • Reacting, responding and creating
  • Comparison study of gender perspectives in Lockie Leonard and Mortified
  
Audience:
 Primary teachers - Max. 20  
Length:
 2 hrs. (5 -7 pm)  
 
Date:
 Monday afternoons (Terms 2 & 3)  
 
Venue:
 ACTF Board room, 3/ 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy, 3065  
 
Cost:
 $20 (incl. afternoon tea)  
     
  Please phone (03) 9419 8800 to make a booking.  
     
     
  Workshop 2:  
 
Embedding visual literacy and critical thinking strategies to promote active construction of meaning with students.

  
  In this interactive workshop, participants will gain knowledge, skills and understandings to enable them to confidently use screen media in their literacy programs. Topics explored will include:

  
 
  • curriculum links to the VELS
  • using screen media to encourage thinking, reading and language development
  • the stages of media literacy and how to develop analytical, critical and creative skills in young children
  • using screen media to teach Values.
  • how young children respond to TV, film, advertising and multimedia and how teachers can encourage critical judgement and understanding through viewing
  • the effects of various media on children and empowering parents to monitor their children’s’ media use and encourage discerning viewing

 

  
  The workshop includes high quality children’s TV programs produced by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF). Participants will receive a kit of resources that are used during the workshop for classroom use.  
 
Audience:
 Primary teachers (Max. 20)  
Length:
 2 hrs. (5 - 7pm)  
Date:
 Tuesday afternoons (Terms 2 & 3)  
Venue:
 ACTF Board room, 3/ 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy, 3065  
Cost:
 $20 (incl. afternoon tea)  
     
  Please phone (03) 9419 8800 to make a booking.  
     
  Presenters for the workshops:  
     
  Deborah Cohen (Education Manager - Australian Children’s Television Foundation)
  
     
  Deborah manages the Australian Children’s Television Foundation’s education unit which involves the development of teaching and learning resources for online and DVD delivery, the ACTF’s online Learning Centre, Kahootz 3 professional development and the ACTF’s Advisory schools’ network. She has many years of experience in education as a curriculum advisor; writing and developing education resources, providing professional development and advice on curriculum implementation. Strategically, she develops partnerships with state and territory education authorities, national professional teacher associations and arts/ media related organisations.  
     
  Maggie Garrard (Education Officer - Australian Children’s Television Foundation)
  
     
  Maggie is experienced in developing Victorian educational policy in the areas of curriculum, assessment and reporting. A former secondary drama teacher and primary classroom teacher, she has worked with teachers for professional development for The Arts domain, as well as developing resource materials for schools to use in the areas of Contemporary 21st learning and teaching and associated evidence based assessment.  
     
 
 
 
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