Afternoon Workshops
Session 1
Number - short name | Presenters | Synopsis |
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1 - Helping children flourish at home, school and in play | Associate Professor Early Childhood and Teacher Education | Research in Papua New Guinea – helping children to flourish at home, school and in play. In this presentation Kym will describe her research in Papua New Guinea over the last four years. Her projects have included helping women farmers support their children’s learning through dual-language, place-based culturally relevant picture books and talking with their children, creating community designed and built playgrounds with local materials and a Duplo lego program to increase children’s maths skills through play. She has just launched a digital professional development package for teachers using SD cards that focuses on authentic learning and 21st century skills. Her current projects include of a $15.5M consortium project enhancing children’s access to quality elementary education and increasing their literacy and numeracy skills and a performance- based health promotion project to prevent childhood stunting. |
2 - Promoting Self-Regulated Learning in the Classroom | Associate Professor DEBORAH PINO-PASTERNAK Early Childhood and Community Education | Promoting Self-Regulated Learning in the Classroom Through this workshop participants will enhance their understanding of student regulation of learning and will discuss effective strategies to enhance self-regulated learning in the classroom. Session suitable to Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary practitioners. |
3 - Models based PE teaching | Lecturer & PHD Candidate
Lecturer Assistant Professor JOHN WILLIAMS
Health and PE Teacher Education | Models Based PE Teaching – the theory and practice for excellence in Physical Education pedagogy This seminar will introduce instructional models as evidence-based pedagogy for teaching contemporary physical education. This workshop is aimed at primary and high school teachers, as well as HPE specialists, to inform and empower self-efficacy and confidence in using evidence-based approaches to deliver quality physical education (QPE). In facilitating this workshop, we will provide and an overview of the following eight instructional models; Direct Instruction, Co-operative Learning, Peer Teaching, Inquiry Teaching, Sport Education, Personalized System of Instruction, Game Sense and Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR). The latter two instructional models, Game Sense and TPSR will be explored in more depth in a practical way that can be transferred straight to the classroom. These models or approaches, designed to be used in a blended way, help us to teach physical education that has educative purpose, with educative purpose being a key idea within the Australian Curriculum for Health and Physical Education. Delegates attending this workshop, will also be given access to supporting video recorded exemplar lessons of the instructional models, by 2018 Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation student teacher award winners. |
Session 2
Number - short name | Presenters | Synopsis |
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1 - Leading through Reflexive and Reflective Practice | Assistant Professor SHYAM BARR STEM/Teacher Education | Transformational Educators lead through Reflexive and Reflective practice Research has demonstrated that individuals who engage in high quality reflective practice achieve mastery in shorter time periods, better regulate their behaviour and make greater contributions to the development of an adaptive organisation. Reflexivity has recently emerged as a critical skill influencing leadership and teaching behaviours. This workshop aims to support participants’ understanding of reflective and reflexive practice, the reflexive habits of high performers, and strategies to enhance one’s own reflective and reflexive practice. Session suitable to Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary leaders and practitioners |
2 - Positive Psychology and Well-being Education | Associate Professor Teacher Education | Positive Psychology and Wellbeing Education In this session, Thomas will present an up-to-date synthesis of what we have learned from the past two decades of positive psychology and wellbeing education initiatives around the world. Evidence-based principles and practices of what promote student wellbeing in educational settings are outlined—and the good news is that many of these principles and practices can also be used in our own lives, not just in our teaching practices, to improve personal wellbeing and reduce stress and burnout. |
3 - Forging school-based learning partnerships | Assistant Professor STEM/Teacher Education Assistant Professor Teacher and Community Education | Forging school-based learning partnerships across Australia and Asia-Pacific region This is an interactive, conversational, and exploratory workshop. In the first half, three presenters will share their experience of working with schools and communities in varied Asian contexts. In the second half, workshop participants will be invited to reflect on their experiences of, and interest in partnering with schools in the Asia-Pacific region. Together we will reflect on key learnings, challenges, and opportunities that may arise when developing school-based learning partnerships across our region. The power of mentoring: a critical friend in pre-service teacher education in clinical practice School clinical placements offer pre-service teachers an authentic environment to learn pedagogical content knowledge and other related skills such as positive classroom management and strategies to increase social emotional learning. It is normal in this practice to identify mentors from school communities to work with pre-service teachers. Mentors are the actors or agents who contribute to their learning of subject knowledge, understanding and skills of being teachers. Mentoring (or coaching) in general has been popularly used as a strategy in educating novices; however, mentoring is usually taken for granted, as there is limited research that investigates the process of mentoring and its impact on teacher learning by both being a mentor or working with a mentor. |
Session 3
Number - short name | Presenters | Synopsis |
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1 - Ethical policies and practices in schools | Assistant Professor BERNARD BROWN Teacher Education | Ethical Policies and Practices in Schools This seminar is focused on key Australian school education policies which have content concerned with ethics. The following questions and discussion points are considered. How can the ethical content in policies be interpreted and what does this mean for those in schools in terms of their practice and understandings? Why is ethics appearing more in Australian education policies in recent years? |
2 - Play your hearts out - musicking with traditional methods | Assistant Professor ROHAN NETHSINGHE Creative Arts/Teacher Education | Play your hearts out – musicking with traditional methods In this session participants will experience making music through traditional methods of multicultural music and scaffold skills through responding, making (composing) and improvising activities. The transmission approaches used are a combination of traditional multicultural and Western music (such as Kodaly) methods and involves hands on music making (using percussion instruments, body percussion, beatboxing and ukulele) and singing. All activities are based on published research and music pedagogical theories introduced by Dr Rohan Nethsinghe. |
3 - The influence of teacher biographies on reflective practice | Assistant Professor Teacher Education and TPA Coordinator | The influence of teacher biographies on reflective practice This presentation will discuss some of the key findings of a doctoral study which investigated how teacher biographies influence professional practice when engaging with the Asia curriculum priority in the English classroom. This presentation will showcase personal narrative methodology and its impact on reflective practice. It will highlight how a deeper understanding of our own personal narratives as teachers can enhance our confidence and efficacy when engaging with concepts that challenge us as educators. |