Cognitive CoachingSM Advanced Seminars provide refinement and depth of learning for those desiring to achieve expert proficiency in Cognitive CoachingSM. By participating in this training, learners will:

The aim of the hub is to enable groups of teachers from interested schools to design engaging and rigorous learning experiences for their students, whilst supporting one another in the learning. 

The hub caters for teachers in primary, secondary and special settings.

Applications are open for the 2010 Interactive Whiteboard Hub in Victoria. This hub has been designed for educators who want to further develop their skills and practices using Promethean Interactive Whiteboards. The aim of the hub is to enable teachers to use IWBs in designing engaging and rigorous learning experiences for their students. This hub deliberately caters for teachers in primary, secondary and special settings.

A Professional Learning Day

Wednesday 16th September

Cognitive Coaching(SM) for Educational Leaders.

Cognitive Coaching(SM) was developed as a means to support teachers with their teaching. It is based upon the premise that teaching is a professional act and Coaches within schools support teachers to become more resourceful in their teaching. Many schools have employed coaches to work with their community and some education systems are employing coaches to support teachers to improve teaching and learning across their contexts.

Successful schools work continually to develop a culture of student, teacher and leadership learning success. Cognitive Coaching(sm) 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.

Dr Julianne Lynch, a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, is a member of the Gender and Information Technology (GaIT) 1 national project research team.

In this ANSN Snapshot from Research, Dr Lynch refers to findings from the GaIT study, to draw our attention to:

• the declining student interest in studying Information Technology (IT) subjects;
• the persistent gender gap in enrolments in IT subjects at school and university; and
• issues related to school IT education that might contribute to the gender gap and to the more general decline in participation in this area of study.

Adria is a Year 5-6 teacher at Westbreen Primary School in Victoria.

Westbreen Primary School is in Glenroy, in the Northern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne. It is a small school, with around 250 students. There are twelve interactive whiteboards (IWBs) – one in every classroom, from Prep to Year 6 – and they are networked.

When I joined the ANSN IWB Hub at the start of 2008, I had little experience of using an IWB – not much more than having had a “play” with it, really.

Learning to Use Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom

Dean was a Year 5-6 teacher in 2008, and in 2009 is Middle Years Team Leader, at Mackellar Primary School in Victoria.

Mackellar Primary School is in Delahey, a western suburb of Melbourne. We are a very multi-cultural school, with around 800 students. In 2009 they will be in 30 classes.

For anybody interested in registering their interest for Advanced Training (only available to those who have successfully completed the initial 8 days of Foundation training) please fill in your detai

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.