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Curriculumvividadmin2019-11-22T11:18:54+13:00
09
May

HEAR,SPEAK,LEARN: Building oral language competence – Jane van der Zeyden

One of the most powerful communication tools we possess is the ability to hear and speak. Students who are limited in their language resources may struggle to succeed in our education system. There is a wealth of research that indicates that students who arrive at school with limited oral language competence are up to four times more likely to fail to reach expected levels of achievement in literacy. It is also estimated that currently one in three students in Aotearoa, New Zealand arrive at school without the language competence to thrive in our education system. This workshop will give classroom teachers, school leaders, and Learning Support co-ordinators an opportunity to reflect on and develop a future-focussed plan for identifying students’ oral language learning needs and integrating oral language teaching across the curriculum.

  • Presented by
    Jane van der Zeyden
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    09 May 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
15
May

Introduction to Aotearoa New Zealand Histories and the Refreshed Social Sciences Curriculum-Primary/Intermediate

Aotearoa New Zealand Histories is now an integral part of Te Mātaiaho / New Zealand Curriculum. If you are new to Aotearoa, a new teacher or have new responsibilities that mean you need to know more about this fascinating development, then this workshop will help to answer your questions. 

This workshop is for Primary/Intermediate teachers

  • Presented by
    Craig Thornhill
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    15 May 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
16
May

Introduction to Aotearoa New Zealand Histories and the Refreshed Social Sciences Curriculum-Secondary

Aotearoa New Zealand Histories is now an integral part of Te Mātaiaho / New Zealand Curriculum. If you are new to Aotearoa, a new teacher or have new responsibilities that mean you need to know more about this fascinating development, then this workshop will help to answer your questions. 
This workshop is aimed at Secondary School teachers.

  • Presented by
    Craig Thornhill
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    16 May 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
18
May

OUR HISTORY, OUR STORIES: weaving literacy and the Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum- Charlene Mataio

“Aotearoa New Zealand is on a journey to ensure that all ākonga in our schools and kura learn how our histories have shaped our present day lives.”

Our stories are rich and fascinating!  The new curriculum document “Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories” offers great opportunities to authentically explore these further within rich literacy programmes.  This course will have a focus on Years 4-8.  However, there will be room for adaptation. This course will aim to:

Help teachers to consider topics that help ākonga to explore the big ideas
Use our instructional reading series to provide authentic, engaging and practical tasks in reading, writing and oral
Provide teachers with opportunities to think how the visual arts can also be used

  • Presented by
    Charlene Mataio
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    18 May 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
30
May

Developing Junior Maths Skills – Jo Williams

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 junior school children and to bring the fun back!

  • Presented by
    Jo Williams
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    30 May 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
27
Jun

DEVELOPING POSITIVE and MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS -Jo Williams

(Year 0-3)

As you reflect at this stage of the year, would you like to have a deeper connection with ALL of your students? Would you like to have more ideas, activities and strategies in your kete to develop or enhance more positive and meaningful relationships with your children and to enjoy a more cohesive, inclusive classroom culture? This is not just something that happens in term 1 with a new class but is a continual work in progress all year!

  • Presented by
    Jo Williams
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    27 Jun 2023
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 12:30 PM
03
Jul

EFFECTIVE WRITING IN THE NZ CLASSROOM with Murray Gadd

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:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    03 Jul 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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