23
Mar

GLOBAL THINKING, GLOBAL IDEAS – Webinar Eric Sheninger (US)

Friends of Learning Network NZ, we have international educators sharing ideas and strategies to enhance your teaching practice. Join us for a 30 min webinar session to provoke your thinking, offer insights and provide some practical strategies to get you started.
Digital Pioneer, Eric Sheninger (US)
  • Presented by
    Eric Sheninger
  • Location:
    Wherever you are in NZ
  • Date:
    23 Mar 2020
  • Time:
    07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
28
Mar

EFFECTIVE WRITING IN THE NZ CLASSROOM

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

This workshop – appropriate for all Year 1-8 teachers, but particularly appropriate for teachers new to New Zealand schools – 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:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    28 Mar 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
08
May

STEM UNLEASHED

In today’s exponentially accelerating knowledge age, teachers recognise the need to create practices that help students develop their own ideas as well as learn about the ideas of others. Whilst this is important across the curriculum it is vital in STEM subjects.
  • Presented by
    Chris Clay
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    08 May 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
16
May

DIGITAL CURRICULUM: LEADERSHIP & PEDAGOGY- SATURDAY EVENT

All schools and kura are expected to be teaching the new digital technologies content from 2020. The Technology learning area has been revised to strengthen the positioning of digital technologies in The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.
  • Presented by
    Eric Sheninger
  • Location:
    Ormiston Junior College
  • Date:
    16 May 2020
  • Time:
    08:30 AM - 03:30 PM
20
May

BUILDING CULTURAL CAPABILITY FOR TEACHING & LEARNING

This workshop will explore those beliefs and actions teachers develop within their teaching approaches, across the curriculum, when they focus on the practices of Ako, Whanaungatanga, Manaakitanga, Waananga and Tangata Whenuatanga and tuakana teina
  • Presented by
    Alison Davis
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    20 May 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
25
May

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES- ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING

Formative assessment practices that will be exemplified in this workshop will include learning goals, success criteria, self- assessment, peer assessment, self -reflection, goal setting and action planning to reach goals, learning talk – including the think aloud and talk moves approaches, peer teaching and peer coaching approaches, self -marking, group conferencing and feedback- giving and responding to feedback (both students and teacher feedback).
  • Presented by
    Alison Davis
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    25 May 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
26
May

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:
    26 May 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 12:30 PM
08
Jul

LITERACY AND THE INQUIRY CLASSROOM

For many years now, teachers throughout NZ have been committed to the use of a more inquiry based approach to designing and facilitating learning with and for their students.  Many teachers are well-aware of the powerful learning outcomes possible when teachers shape learning experiences around big questions that allow strong curriculum connections and connect learning with the real, loved experience of the learner.
  • Presented by
    Kath Murdoch
  • Location:
    Waipuna Conference Centre
  • Date:
    08 Jul 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:30 PM
29
Jul

MATHS IN A NEW ENTRANT SETTING

Developing maths skills through a real-life, cross-curricular, problem-solving and theme based approach. This course will explore practical and visual ways to teach real life, integrated maths for new entrant children and to bring the fun back!
  • Presented by
    Jo Williams
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    29 Jul 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
31
Jul

WHY THE COMPETENCIES ARE CRITICAL FOR OUR LEARNERS

The competencies are now becoming the most important learning capability set that everyone now requires, in order to manage the increasing complexity of the world we now live in. There are two versions of the competencies: The NZC version and the Global version. Which version a school chooses is up to you and what they believe is the best version for them.
  • Presented by
    Mark Treadwell
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    31 Jul 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
07
Aug

THE 21ST C LEARNING PROCESS

The learning process has been very simple for the last 300 years and suddenly it has become far more complex. The simple process of read-remember-recall resulted in learners remembering knowledge as the end point. Now the end point can be far more complex. The implications of the shift in complexity of learning means learners now have to apply a far more complex learning process.

This more sophisticated learning process is gradually introduced to learners over the first ten years of schooling. The five developmental stages of learning increases in sophistication over the time that learners are at school.

In this session Mark will unpack the learning process and model the shifts in that process and the implications for learners.
  • Presented by
    Mark Treadwell
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    07 Aug 2020
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM