Learning Centre
Professional
Development
Noah and Saskia
 
  2008 Professional development workshops (Victoria):  
     
  Workshop 1:  
 
LOCKIE LEONARD: Text to screen
NEW English/Literacy DVD-ROM resource from ACTF

  
 
Practical and interactive workshop using this exciting new resource that focuses on the themes of culture and language of teenage boys and growing up using videos clips and a variety of activities which include discussion, analysis and how to create blogs, mini stories, letters, radio reports, scripted scenes, zines and other text types. VELS related and explores the following:

  
  • Storytelling in a television series
  • Transition and adolescence
  • Identity
  • Reacting, responding and creating
  • Comparison study of gender perspectives in Lockie Leonard and Mortified
  
Audience:
 Middle years teachers (particularly, lower secondary English teachers) - Max. 20  
Length:
 2 hrs. (4.30-6.30pm)  
 
Date:
 Monday afternoons  
 
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. (4 - 6.00pm)  
Date:
 Tuesday afternoons  
Venue:
 ACTF Board room, 3/ 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy, 3065  
Cost:
 $20 (incl. afternoon tea)  
     
  Please phone (03) 9419 8800 to make a booking.  
     
  Presenter: Deborah Cohen (Education Manager - Australian Children’s Television Foundation)
  
     
  Deborah is responsible for the development of the ACTF’s educational resource packages and the Learning Centre online materials. She has over 30 years experience in education, with many of those as a curriculum advisor; writing and developing education resources, providing professional development and curriculum implementation. She was also co-founder and co-coordinator of the Primary Arts Network, the largest network of primary teachers in Queensland. She has also lectured in primary education at Griffith University.  
     
     
 
 
 
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