Snapshot - Working with African Refugee Students

This Snapshot outlines the background of African students now in schools in Australia and discusses the need for teachers and schools to find ways to capitalise and build on the strengths of these students, to assist them in building the new (and sometimes unfamiliar) skills that they will need if they are to settle successfully in Australia. It then provides an overview of what the project is setting out to achieve, and includes case studies and suggested strategies, as well as details of the resources that are being made available.

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Report from the National Forum - ‘Intergenerational Compact for our Young People'

John SpeiringsJohn SpieringsThe Australian National Schools Network (ANSN) in conjunction with the University of Western Sydney (UWS) and the New South Wales Department of Education & Training presented a National Forum to discuss producing an ‘Intergenerational Compact for our Young People’.

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Cognitive Coaching - Workshops in Vic and WA 2009

Successful schools work continually to develop a culture of student, teacher and leadership learning success. Cognitive Coaching is integral to this.

Participation in this intensive workshop will equip you and/or members of your team with a set of strategies, a way of thinking and a way of working that invites self and others to shape and reshape their thinking and problem solving capacities to achieve learning success.

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Enews 29th July Vol 3 No 10

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:
  • The ANSN Annual Forum: An Intergenerational Youth Compact – Follow-up presentation in Canberra, plus wide media coverage
  • Connecting Lives and Learning – Check out the website
  • Turnaround teaching, learning and outcomes – Hubs and workshops
  • Habits of Mind videos on YouTube
  • Bee Bots Workshops in Queensland and Victoria
  • Media coverage of the ANSN Annual Forum
  • Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Hub – invitational sessions in Victoria
  • Reminder of major Habits of Mind event #1: Creating a Mindful School 3-day workshop, Melbourne
  • Reminder of major Habits of Mind event #2: Next Steps 1-day Conferences in Brisbane on 5 November and in Sydney on 6 November
  • The WA Interactive Whiteboard Hub
  • ANSN directions in 2009 for Dimensions of Learning and Habits of Mind 
  • Curriculum Design Research Circle – progress report
  • Some interesting reading (three items)
  • Reminders of ANSN activities
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`Turnaround teaching in challenging schools’ - half day workshop

Our poorest schools continue to get the poorest results. School leaders and teachers can make a bigger difference in our most challenging schools if they embrace some core pedagogical practices that have emanated from the most recent Australian research into best practice teaching in the middle and senior years of schooling.

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Turnaround teaching, learning and outcomes – Hubs and workshops

Teachers, school leaders, educational consultants and systems personnel now have the opportunity to participate in a Turnaround Hub – where they will experience a teacher inquiry approach to learning. Working in research projects, they will explore effective ways to address educational disadvantage, based on the groundbreaking work that has been done in the Connecting Lives and Learning project.

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Connecting Lives and Learning – Check out the website

The August issue of E-News reported the launch of the Connecting Lives and Learning (CLL) website, aimed at schools and systems that are seeking ways to address educational disadvantage. The CLL project developed a `turnaround pedagogy’ that works in challenging school contexts. It has now developed into the Turnaround project, with a research-based Hub and a program of workshops.

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Learning to Coach, Coaching to Learn

Participants of the recent Learning to Coach, Coaching to Learn workshopsseries were introduced to the skills and knowledge from the Cognitive Coaching program.
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Back to Basics IWB Course

If you have just got your Promethean ACTIVboard or you need a refresher session then this course is for you. We will start at the beginning and work step by step through the software. Then you will have time to make a flipchart for your class. This course is for primary and secondary teachers.

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Enews 29th July Vol 3 No 9

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

  • Digi Kids Workshops held in South Melbourne
  • Digi Kids Adelaide workshop report
  • Curriculum Design – a three-day Research Circle in Melbourne
  • Curriculum Design – two-day intensive workshops in Melbourne and Adelaide
  • One-day Early Childhood Bee Bot workshop in Melbourne
  • Habits of Mind – Next Steps Conference – Brisbane and Sydney
  • Connecting Lives and Learning – Website launched
  • Introducing Dr Sarah Prestridge
  • Two-day workshop: Communicate, Collaborate and Create
  • Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Hub information sessions in Victoria
  • Cognitive Coaching – Research Circle forms
  • Some interesting reading
  • Reminders of ANSN activities
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