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Curriculumvividadmin2019-11-22T11:18:54+13:00
05
Jul

ORAL LANGUAGE & ENCOURAGING EARLY WRITERS IN THE NEW ENTRANT SETTING

This workshop will explore:

the importance of daily oral language opportunities, sensory experiences and play
effective ways of developing our children’s speaking, listening, thinking and questioning skills
how to develop literacy skills through an integrated, cross curricular, thematic and real- life approach: practical links between literacy and topic/inquiry/science, literacy and maths, literacy and the arts (role play, movement, visual arts)

  • Presented by
    Jo Williams
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    05 Jul 2022
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11
Jul

Being an Effective Teacher of Writing, especially for Underachieving Students with Murray Gadd

Holiday workshop so no relievers required.
A great professional learning opportunity for your whole staff.
During the day, Murray will lead an illustrated and research-based exploration of what teachers need to know, think about and do to be effective teachers of writing for Years 0-8 students, especially students who perceive themselves as struggling or reluctant writers. 

  • Presented by
    Murray Gadd
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    11 Jul 2022
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
22
Sep

EFFECTIVE WRITING IN THE NZ CLASSROOM – Murray Gadd (Wellington)

TEACHING WRITING EFFECTIVELY TO YEAR 1-8 STUDENTS IN THE NEW ZEALAND CONTEXT

This workshop – appropriate for all Year 1-8 teachers will focus on what New Zealand students should be achieving as developing writers as well as what teachers should be doing in effective New Zealand writing classrooms.

  • Presented by
    Murray Gadd
  • Location:
    Copthorne Oriental Parade
  • Date:
    22 Sep 2022
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
02
Feb

Challenge All Learners – James Nottingham

It is through challenge that we are able to move students out of their comfort zone and into their learning zone (or zone of proximal development)

And yet, so many students actively avoid challenge for fear of getting something wrong, falling behind, or simply because they don’t see the point in putting any effort in. Added to this is the need for differentiation to ensure all students are challenged appropriately – not so much that they can’t access the learning and not so little that they end up repeating things they already know how to do. That is why we created this very company in 1999 and named it Challenging Learning – because of the difficulties we all face in challenging all students appropriately.

Suitable for teachers, leaders and support staff working with students between the ages of 3-19

  • Presented by
    James Nottingham
  • Location:
    TBA
  • Date:
    02 Feb 2023
  • Time:
    09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
21
Aug

Embedding Formative Assessment – Dylan Wiliam

There is now a large and growing evidence base that helping teachers develop their use of minute-to-minute and day-by-day assessment is one of, if not the most powerful ways to improve student learning. However, adopting formative assessment, or assessment for learning as it is sometimes called, involves far more than adding a few “quick fixes” to teachers’ classroom repertoires. It involves a fundamental shift in focus, from what the teacher is putting into the process to what the students are getting out of it.

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn what formative assessment is and what it isn’t, when it works and when it doesn’t and find out about the five key strategies of formative assessment, together with over thirty practical techniques for implementing formative assessment in every classroom.

  • Presented by
    Dylan Wiliam
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium Auckland
  • Date:
    21 Aug 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
22
Aug

Leadership for Teacher Learning – Dylan Wiliam

There is now substantial evidence that there is a “knowing-doing” gap in education. The problem is not that we do not know how to improve schools. The problem is implementing what is known to work in more classrooms. This is why approaches based on “sharing good practice” have been relatively ineffective. Teachers do not lack knowledge—rather they lack support in putting into practice changes in what they do in their classrooms, and this requires time.

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to create more time for teachers to improve their practice, and how leaders can ensure that such time is spent in a way that best benefits their students

  • Presented by
    Dylan Wiliam
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium Auckland
  • Date:
    22 Aug 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
23
Aug

Assessment Literacy – Dylan Wiliam

Even the best-designed assessment system needs to be implemented thoughtfully, which requires that all users of assessment evidence have a certain degree of assessment literacy— an understanding of both the meanings and the consequences of educational assessments.

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn what makes some assessments better than others, why student progress measures are almost entirely useless, why most tests will never produce useful diagnostic information on students, and why most school assessment systems do not do the things they are intended to do.

The workshop will include a consideration of how assessments are interpreted, recorded, and reported to key stakeholders, as well as some in-class suggestions for how to get good and quick feedback from students.

  • Presented by
    Dylan Wiliam
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium Auckland
  • Date:
    23 Aug 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
24
Aug

What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Learning & Memory- Dylan Wiliam

For many years, most teacher education programmes included substantial coverage of theories on the psychology of education. However, many pre-service teachers did not find these courses helpful, since they offered little more than bland platitudes, or, at the other extreme, provided findings that worked in laboratories, but were difficult or impossible to implement in real classrooms. As a result, many teacher preparation programmes now contain little in the way of educational psychology, which is unfortunate, because over the last thirty years or so, cognitive science has produced deep insights into how humans learn.

In this interactive workshop, Dylan will introduce participants to the latest findings from cognitive science about how we learn and the kinds of things we can do to help our students remember what they are taught for longer.

  • Presented by
    Dylan Wiliam
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium Auckland
  • Date:
    24 Aug 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM

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