Literacy Games - Booking Status

Seats Booked:  13
Seats Remaining:  7

Bookings close:  Wed 27 Nov 2013. **Booking are closed***

Booking are now open for other teaching professionals.

This post will be updated to reflect booking status.  Last updated 25 Nov, 5.30am.

AusVELS and Mathematics - Booking Status

Seats Booked:  35
Seats Remaining:  5

Bookings close:  Tue 3 Dec 2013.  ***BOOKINGS ARE NOW CLOSED***

Booking are now open for other teaching professionals.

This post will be updated to reflect booking status.  Last updated 4 Dec, 7.00am.

PD Announcement: Literacy Games

Literacy Games

A literacy PD with presenter Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock.

 Part One: Setting your students up for success. Building confidence in struggling students through simple strategies which give them frequent successes.

 Part Two: Using games to engage your students. Making literacy "hands-on" and fun by reducing your reliance on traditional pencil and paper exercises.

 Part Three: Games and activities. How to make a range of games and resources with common household items such as playing cards, wooden clothes pegs, newspapers and supermarket catalogues.

 Part Four: Teacher play time! You will participate in a range of activities and games that have been made with common household items to get a "student's eye view". 

 Part Five: Common Focus.  Using a single resource to link mulitple curriculum areas to create a thematic full-day lessons (CRT focus).

There are a maximum of 20 seats available. 

Workshop: Saturday 30 November 2013, 1.00pm - 3.30pm
Bookings Open: Monday 28 October 2013


Full details can be found here!

Regards, 

Mel

Mathematics and Hands On Gameplay - Booking Status.

Seats Booked:  20
Seats Remaining:  0  ***Waiting list only***

Bookings close:  Mon 18 Nov 2013.  ***Concluded***

This post will be updated to reflect booking status.  Last updated 29 Oct, 9.30pm.

PD Announcement - Mathematics and Hands On Gameplay.

Hello everyone,

We are happy to announce another PD workshop - Mathematics and Hands On Gameplay from the Brainary.

Date:  Thurs 21 Nov, 2013.
Duration:  2.5 hour (4.00pm - 6.30pm)
Focus:  Mathematics, Phys Ed, ICT.
Venue:  Wodonga South PS library.
Catering:  Afternoon Tea (not just a packet of biscuits!), continuous Tea/Coffee, etc.

Activity Focus:  For participants to develop a working understanding of the extraordinary learning transfer achievable with educational gameplay.  Participants will experience both physical and digital educational game play on the subject of maths finishing with a discussion allowing participants to compare and contrast both game play formats.

Bookings open TOMORROW, Mon 21 Oct 2013.

For more information please visit:  http://wodongacrtsupportnetworkpd.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page_19.html

Regards,

Mel.

PD Announcement: AusVELS and Mathematics.

With Presenter Michael Ymer.

Michael Ymer - Hands On Maths - Wodonga 2012.

• Understanding the rationale and aims behind the document.
• Getting to know how the new mathematics curriculum is organised.
• What are the Proficiency strands and how can teachers employ them in the daily lesson. Activity based session for teachers to trial in classrooms.
• Achievement standards – how will these inform reporting. Mixed abilities in mathematics. Using the framework of the mathematics curriculum to deal with the diversity of learners in our classrooms. Creating multiple entry and exit points to maths activities so all students can experience success in mathematics.

There will be 40 seats available. 

Bookings open: Monday 28 Oct 2013.  
Workshop:  Saturday 7 Dec 2013 - 9.00am - 3.00pm (6hrs).

More information coming soon!

Regards,

Mel.

CRT PD in Wodonga and Wangaratta to continue.

Well, this year has been a bit of an on-again, off-again affair for CRT PD in the Hume region.  The reasons are many and varied so I won't bore you with the details, just announce that the Wodonga CRT Support Network will continue to provide monthly meetings and PD workshops into 2014 and beyond.

Term 2 saw a flood of PD as we played a game of "catch up" to get in as much PD as possible to make up for the lower than usual amount of PD in the previous 6 months.  Now that things have settled we will be returning to our regular schedule of:

• 11 x Monthly Meetings per year.
• 4 x 6.5 hour, full-day PD workshops per year.
• As many 2.5 hour evening PD workshops as the budget allows for per year.

We would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that we run PD workshops with funding from the DEECD's CRT Professional Learning Support Initiative.  This funding is supplied for the benefit of all Victorian teachers currently working as a CRT.  As a CRT working in Victoria you are entitled to take advantage of the opportunities we offer.  We recommend membership to the Wodonga CRT Support Network simply because it is the most efficient way of keeping yourself up-to-date on the PD workshops we organize but it is in no way compulsory.

As always, we operate on a first-come, first served basis.  Membership does not help or hinder CRTs in booking a seat beyond the ability to keep yourself informed.

PD Workshops in Term 4.

We are also pleased to announce that applications have been submitted for PD workshops for Term 4 2013 (one full-day and one 2.5hr PD).  We do not envisage it taking long for these workshops to be approved and we can announce dates, times and topics!

Meetings in Term 4.

Please note:  attending meetings requires membership.  If you would like to attend a meeting to see what it's about before deciding on whether to join the Network, please email us to enquire about attending as a guest!

There will be 3 Meetings in term 4:

• Wed Oct 16 : 4.00 - 6.30.
• Thurs Nov 7 : 4.00 - 6.30.
• Wed Dec 11 : 4.00 - 6.30.
  

Altogether this will bring 16.5 hours of valid PD submissions for your renewal or registration for 2014.  More importantly, it is a chance to network with your CRT colleagues and become a member of a supportive and caring educational community!


Regards,

Mel.