Sue King Feedback Video and Report.

Apart from a couple of problems with the venue we have been working on fixing for a while now, the workshop finished up with a very positive reaction from those who attended!

Comments in our videos are taken directly from feedback forms left by participants so it's easy to see the kind of response that Sue King is able to generate in a Workshop.  As you can see in the video, Sue King has a knack for making a highly educational day something that's also fun.  The bubble blowing and sign language sections proved particularly enjoyable for the participants!

We had a lot of new faces again this time which was great to see!  We hope you all enjoyed and benefitted from our presenter selection and organization of the day.  We also hope all you travellers, some who travelled a very long way, made it home safely!

Estimated Cost per Head value: $225.00 - $355.00 (based on similar commercial PDs)

Cost per head we paid: $61.78

Cost per head for CRTs?   $10.00

Offering this PD would not have been possible without some help. We'd like to thank:

• Sue King for her wonderful presentation.
• The Wodonga South Primary School for the venue.
• The DEECD for the CRT Professional Learning Support Initiative and the funding it provides
• VIT for starting and helping to maintain 24 CRT Networks across Victoria.
• Officeworks Wodonga for their sponsorship of our network
• and everyone who attended for the wonderful atmosphere they provided! 

Please note; For those of you who have requested it, anonymous posting has been enabled!

Regards,

Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock

Wodonga CRT Support Network Coordinator.

Booking Update

  Sue King - ASD and Visual Resources

Updated:  12/09/2012

Bookings for this PD close today at 4.00pm!

After 4.00pm we will only be able to fill seats that are opened due to booking cancellations.

Current Bookings; 30

Max Seats:  40 

Bookings close Wednesday 12 September 2012.  Catering arrangements and the production of handouts will be finalized at this time.  As a result bookings will not be accepted after this date and time.  You may still ask to be placed on the waiting list in case of last minute cancellations.

You can find full details here.

Heather Larkin - eLearning.

Bookings for this PD are now open.

Current bookings: 4
Max Seats: 20.

Due to limited seats this PD is available to CRTs only!  You can find full details here.

Regards,

Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock

Wodonga CRT Support Network Coordinator.

Free online Professional Development - Rego and PD presentation video..

In August 2012 the Wodonga CRT Support Network was lucky enough to host Dawn Colcott, VIT's Manager of Professional Learning, as a guest speaker in a specially convened meeting.

The topic was Registration and Professional Development dealing with the 2012 changes to the registration process and requirements.

From 2011 onwards, September 30 became a significant date in the teaching profession calendar. The time frame has changed for payment of annual fees and renewal of full registration.

Full registration requires all teachers to maintain their professional practice and suitability to be a teacher through the renewal of registration process.

To be able to teach effectively for student learning, a casual relief teacher should have current professional knowledge and practice.

The Institute recognises that CRTs sometimes have less opportunity to know about and engage in professional development activities.

You can find the rest of this presentation here:

http://wodongacrtsupportnetwork.blogspot.com.au/p/rego-and-pd-video-dawn-colcott.html

This is a full 60 minutes of video!

For those of you still looking for a little guidance:

This will be "teacher identified" PD and no Pdi PASS code is offered.

You can start by referencing this against Standard 7:

Teachers develop organizational and administrative skills to manage their non-teaching duties.

The Wodonga CRT Support Network gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Dawn Colcott and the Victorian Institute of Teaching that made it possible to bring you this online PD opportunity!

Regards,

Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock
Wodonga CRT Support Network Coordinator.

Booking Update

  Sue King - ASD and Visual Resources

Updated:  06/09/2012


Current Bookings; 28

Max Seats:  40 

Bookings close Wednesday 12 September 2012.  Catering arrangements and the production of handouts will be finalized at this time.  As a result bookings will not be accepted after this date and time.  You may still ask to be placed on the waiting list in case of last minute cancellations.

You can find full details here.

Regards,

Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock

Wodonga CRT Support Network Coordinator.

Reading Comprehension After PD Report.

The "Reading Comprehension" workshop was successfully run on Thursday 16 August 2012.

The feedback on the workshop from those in attendance were very positive!  Unfortunately we have that bug going around and many were unable to attend due to personal or family illness.  We feel for you all and hope everyone gets well soon!

Estimated Cost per Head value: $85.00 - $125.00 (based on similar commercial PDs)

Cost per head we paid: $49.35

Cost per head for CRTs?   Gold coin Donation!

Offering this PD would not have been possible without some help. We'd like to thank:

• The Wodonga South Primary School for the venue.
• The DEECD for the CRT Professional Learning Support Initiative and the funding it provides
• VIT for starting and helping to maintain 24 CRT Networks across Victoria.
• and everyone who attended! 

We'd also like to take this opportunity as this marks the conclusion of our 3rd evening PD which officially marks the end of our trial run with them.

You have all shown us that the demand is certainly there to encourage us to continue to offer these opportunities.  Even though many were absent for Caryle, it indicates to us that these are also viable to run in areas outside of Wodonga where lower numbers are simply to be expected.

We look forward to bringing good quality PD for CRTs to a wider range of locations across the upper Hume region in the future!  It won't be immediately, there's a lot of organization involved, but this trial has shown us that it is definately worthwhile to devote the required effort to doing so.  

Regards,

Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock
Wodonga CRT Support Network Coordinator.

Booking Status; Sue King

  Sue King - ASD and Visual Resources

 

Bookings are now open!

Current Bookings; 15

Max Seats:  40 

Bookings close Wednesday 12 September 2012.  Catering arrangements and the production of handouts will be finalized at this time.  As a result bookings will not be accepted after this date and time.

You can find full details here.

Regards,

Melinda Lichnovsky-Klock

Wodonga CRT Support Network Coordinator.

Bonus Meeting - Dawn Colcott.

As many will know, Dawn Colcott was unable to attend the Bonus May Meeting we had scheduled.  Since then she has kept us in mind and again has an opportunity to do so.

We will be scheduling a special meeting for Thursday 9 August 2012.

This meeting will be held in an alternate venue due to the non-standard time.  We will be holding this meeting at the Albury Wodonga Community College.

The Meeting will begin at 5.30pm.

We will begin the meeting with an activity that encourages us to think about education as a whole.  The topic will be "What disappoints us most about education".  We encourage you to think a little about this on personal, school-based, regional, state, national and international basis.  We are going to limit you to a certain number of responses on the night so we DO encourage you to prioritize the issues you think modern Teachrs face in the world we live in.

Dawn Colcott from VIT will appear as a guest speaker from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.

This will be followed by discussion of Dawn's presentation (with Q&A time if people would like it), as well as further discussion of the "what disappoints us about education" activity and open member-driven discussion.

As usual, tea, coffee and hot chocolate will be provided as will a light evening tea.

You are welcome to join at 5.30pm to participate in the activity or join us at 6.30pm to attend the guest-speaker segment.

Please email Mel on wodongacrt@vit.vic.edu.au if you intend on attending.

Find full details on the following link;

http://wodongacrtsupportnetwork.blogspot.com.au/p/bonus-august-meeting.html


Regards,

Mel