CRT PD selected by CRTs for CRTs.
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Bookings have opened for this PD and the Booking Form is now available for download on it's information page.
Seats Max: 40
Seats Booked:20
Bookings will close at 3.00pm on Monday the 9th of July.
Please be aware that the last week of booking is school holidays and the Wodonga South Primary School will not be open to take bookings. Please email us to make alternate payment arrangements during this time.
** Any new applications will be placed on a waiting list **
You will be offered seats should anyone cancel their booking (in order of being placed on the waiting list). If there is sufficient demand we will run this PD opportunity again later in the year. We will use the waiting list to gague the demand. If you are on the waiting list you will be offered first access prior to open bookings should we run this PD again this year.
You
can find out more, including booking and venue details, by clicking the
"Literacy Games PD Workshop" tab at the top of this page.
We
also offer a reminder that entry is gold-coin donation only. All other
required funds are sourced through the DEECD's CRT Professional
Learning Support Initiative.
The e5 Workshop with Koncept Mastery (Kate and Mel) was successfully run on Saturday 12 May 2012.
The Feedback on the workshop, from both those
in attendance
and the presenters, were very positive. Thank you to everyone
involved, those of you attending included, for the relaxed and friendly atmosphere
of the workshop!
Estimated Cost per Head value: $155.00 - $225.00 (based on similar commercial PDs)
Cost per head we paid: $131.00
Cost per head for CRTs? $10.00
This is our most expensive PD on a cost per head basis but we knew this would be the case up front. e5 is a bit of an unknown quantity amongst CRTs in our region so we knew it wouldn't attract the numbers of some of our previous PDs. However we at the Wodonga CRT Support Network believe wholeheartedly in the methods and concepts behind the e5 Instructional Model.
It is our hope that running this PD will generate some word of mouth and raise local awareness of the benefits of the e5 Instructional Model. Thank you Mel and Kate of Koncept Mastery for helping us to achieve this goal.
Offering this PD would not have been possible without some help. We'd like to thank:
Kate and Mel from Koncept Mastery
The Wodonga South Primary School for the venue.
The DEECD for the CRT Professional Learning Support Initiative and the funding it provides
Henri's Bakery and my husband Paul for the catering
Places are getting scarce. If you intend on attending it might be a good idea to book soon!
You can find out more, including booking and venue details, by clicking the "Literacy Games PD Workshop" tab at the top of this page.
We also offer a reminder that entry is gold-coin donation only. All other required funds are sourced through the DEECD's CRT Professional Learning Support Initiative.
In Term 3 we have chosen to focus on students with Learning Difficulties and we have just received Approval for 2 more full-day Professional development Workshops.
Sue King - Austism Spectrum Disorder.
September sees the one we know many of you are waiting for, the return of Sue King.
Sue will be bringing us another round of insights into the Autism Spectrum Disorder and this year will focus on Classroom Visual Resources;
Overview of the Positive Partnerships, giving the foundations of Autism
The difference between Visuals for Learning and Visuals for Behaviour Management and Self Regulation
Visuals for high and low functioning students.
Some of the same ground will be covered this year as last but there will be plenty of new content on offer!
Karen Starkiss - Dyslexia.
A newcomer to our Network presenters is Karen Starkiss.
Karen has over 20 years primary classroom teaching experience. In
England she was the Principal of one of the top performing primary
schools and employed to work in “failing” schools to improve standards
of teaching and learning. An earlier management role was Special Needs
Consultant, she also lectured nationally about integrating children with
dyslexia into mainstream classrooms. Since she has been in Australia
Karen is a consultant with her own business – Dyslexia Support Services;
she has continued to assess and advise a number of adults and children
with dyslexia and has run courses throughout Melbourne for teachers and
classroom assistants. She was recently described by The Age newspaper as
a "Dyslexia Crusader."
Reports from other Networks is that she is a knowledgable, no-nonsense and very enjoyable presenter.
Karen will also see something some of you have been asking to have happen for a while now, Workshops during the holidays. This is a trial run to be held in the Term 2 holidays but we hope attendance will be at levels which we can afford to keep providing holiday PD as long as the demand is there.
Pages for these presenters will go up a week before bookings open for the PD so keep an eye on the blog!
This session will explore the characteristics of Autism and the impact
of those characteristics on learning and share best practice strategies
for teaching students with Autism, in particular high functioning
Autism, in secondary and further education.
Presenter; Tricia Glass
Tricia Glass has education and welfare experience in primary, secondary
and tertiary settings. Recently she worked as Victorian Team Leader for
the national Australian Autism Education and Training Corporation
delivering professional development to school staff across all sectors.
Further to this she delivered workshops to parents and carers around
Australia through the Positive Partnerships program. She is currently
the Autism Project Officer with Sandhurst Catholic Education.
This is a Pdi approved program. We have not contacted the NDCO representative for Wodonga and although participants will not receive a certificate of attendance they will receive a Pdi PASS code.
This is a free PD to appropriate participants being held after school on Wednesday 13 June, 2012. You can view this PD's Pdi page here;
A literacy PD with presenter Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock.
Melinda is a CRT with 8 years
experience, including a year of part-time Literacy in a Special
Development setting. She has used this experience to successfully tutor
mainstream students struggling with literacy both as a volunteer in
schools and in after-school group sessions. She is also the Coordinator
of the Wodonga CRT Support Network, a wife and mother of 3.
Her methods center around Student
Engagement, making learning fun and using a hands-on approach in order
to get students to motivate themselves on the road to Literacy.
