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Women in History: Reclaiming (In)Visible Women

Women in History: Reclaiming (In)Visible Women

Overview

In this exciting new CPL course participants will delve into women in history, investigating programming approaches for History 7-10, History Elective years 9 and 10 as well as Extension History Year 12.

Utilising history case studies of both the well-known and forgotten women of history, participants will explore thematic, comparative and biographical event-based programming approaches, taking in key historical debates and the big questions in history.

Primary, Secondary and TAFE teachers are encouraged to apply to attend this course.

Presenters Judy King will take participants through planning units of work in History 7-10, History Elective years 9 and 10 and Extension History Year 12, including perspectives on women’s history in a variety of topics.

Dr Monika Schwarz will present an in-depth look at the story of women convicts in Australia.

As well, participants will be given an overview of the Australian Research Council (ARC) international digital history project Conviction Politics.

If you are interested in this course, you may also be interested in attending an associated social event – Meet History’s (In)Visible Women over a drink and snack. This event will take place on 14 August and you can purchase tickets here.

Thursday 31 October

AEU ACT Branch, Level 1, 71 Leichhardt Street, Kingston, ACT, 2604

Completing Women in History Reclaiming (ln)visible Women will contribute 5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and assessment of NSW Curriculum/Early Years Learning Framework addressing Standard Descriptor 1.2.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher in NSW.

Judy King

Judy King is a former high school principal and a life member of the NSW Teachers Federation, AEU and SPC. Judy retired from Riverside Girls High School in 2010 after 19 years as a secondary principal.

Since retirement Judy has worked part time at Chifley College Mt Druitt campus, Northmead High and Georges River College in an executive support role with a strong focus on teaching and learning, assessment and reporting, especially in the areas of reading for meaning and writing for purpose.

She currently teaches History and Politics at WEA , the oldest adult education foundation in the CBD of Sydney.

Judy represented secondary principals on the Board of Studies (now NESA) from 1998-2004 and was History Inspector at the Board in 1991. Judy was deputy president of the SPC from 1998-2006

In 2018 she researched and wrote a history of the NSW Teachers Federation 1918-2018 as part of its centenary celebrations. The articles were published throughout each edition of Education in 2018 and were featured as part of a three week exhibition in the Federation building.

In 2007 Judy was awarded the Meritorious Service in Public Education medal by the Department of Education.

Judy has an abiding interest in all aspects of Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern History as well as archaeology, politics and film. In 2014 and 2019 she attended the Cambridge University History Summer School for international students and hopes to return in 2025.

$220 for one day

“Excellent resources provided by all speakers.”

“Judy’s session was very thought provoking and a great way to start. Very inspirational woman.”

“All presenters were engaging and informative. I appreciate their generosity in sharing.”

“Very valuable course. (I have) new ideas to take back to school.”

“Thank you Federation and the CPL team for providing another extremely useful PD. All PD by the CPL has presenters who are genuine experts in their fields and provide useful resources and knowledge.”

Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D students in language and literacy development

Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D students in language and literacy development

Overview

The focus of this one day course presented by Kathy Rushton and Joanne Rossbridge is to develop understandings and strategies for participants who support EAL/D students in both small groups and mainstream classrooms.

Practical strategies will be provided to foster the use of English language while encouraging students to use all the linguistic resources that they bring to school, including the use of their first language. Consideration will be given to the wellbeing framework and supporting students in an inclusive environment which honours and confirms their identity, language, and culture.

Participants will:

  • Extend their knowledge, skills and understanding in the development of oral language with
    links to the mode continuum to support English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D)
    students.
  • Explore the relationship between spoken and written language through unpacking lexical
    density and grammatical intricacy
  • Engage in activities to expand their strategies to develop a reading sequence with
    consideration of Field, Tenor and Mode, vocabulary and language features
  • Engage in activities showcasing strategies in developing a ‘tanslanguaging space’ to support
    literacy.
  • Extend their understanding on the role of joint construction in the teaching and learning cycle.

20 August 2024 at AEU ACT Branch, Level 1/71 Leichhardt St, Kingston ACT 2604

29 October 2024 2024 at AEU ACT Branch, Level 1/71 Leichhardt St, Kingston ACT 2604

Completing Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D students in language and literacy development will contribute 5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/EYLF addressing standard descriptors 1.3.2, 2.5.2 & 3.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

$220

Joanne Rossbridge is an independent language and literacy consultant working in both primary and secondary schools and with teachers across Australia. She has worked as a classroom teacher and literacy consultant with the DET (NSW). Her expertise and much of her experience is in working with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Joanne is particularly interested in student and teacher talk and how talk about language can assist the development of language and literacy.

Kathy Rushton is interested in the development of language and literacy especially in disadvantaged communities. She has worked as a classroom teacher and literacy consultant and provides professional learning for teachers in the areas of language and literacy development. Her current research projects include a study of multilingual pre-service teachers and the impact that teacher professional learning has on the development of a creative pedagogical stance which supports translanguaging and student identity and wellbeing.

Primary and Secondary teachers who support EAL/D students in both small groups and mainstream classrooms.

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Supporting Students with ADHD in K-6

Supporting Students with ADHD in K-6

Overview

The Supporting Students with ADHD in K-6 course is designed to support teachers to:

  • develop an understanding of the wide range of characteristics of students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD);
  • explore a range of strategies which address the needs of students with ADHD in the areas of language and cognitive development, communication skills and social behaviour;
  • develop specific strategies to help students with ADHD access the curriculum, and
  • develop an understanding for the need for explicit instruction in the essential components of literacy in every classroom every day.

Online (Term 4)

Tuesday 19 November 2024

Dr Rose Dixon

Dr Roselyn Dixon has been a special education teacher in both mainstream and special education settings in primary and secondary schools. Rose has been in academia and involved with Inclusive Education for more than 25 years. She has published research in the fields of social skills and behavioural interventions for people with a range of disabilities including students with Oppositional Defiance Disorders and Autism.

She has been actively involved in examining the relationship between digital technologies and pedagogy in special education and inclusive classrooms for students with Autism as well as the implications of the NDIS on people with disabilities in rural and remote communities. Rose is an Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Education, University of Wollongong, where she was previously the Academic Director of Inclusive and Special Education. She continues to support doctoral students in Inclusive and Special education with a focus on Autism. 

Primary teachers

Special Education teachers

School Counsellors

Learning and Support Teachers

$220 (Federation members only)

Online

Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D Students from K-8

Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D Students from K-8

Overview

If you wish to apply to attend a single day of this three-day course, please email us at cpl@nswtf.org.au

We will focus on oral language development as the basis for developing literacy through the cyclical use of a range of strategies. This will be achieved through consideration of how students need to make meaning in curriculum contexts with a particular emphasis on developing knowledge about language, particularly grammar and vocabulary.

The focus of this three day course presented by Kathy Rushton and Joanne Rossbridge is to develop understandings and strategies for participants who support EAL/D students in both small groups and mainstream classrooms.

Practical strategies will be provided to foster the use of English Language (L2) while encouraging students to use all the linguistic resources that they bring to school, including the use of their first language (L1). Consideration will be given to the wellbeing framework and supporting students in an inclusive environment which honours and confirms their identity, language, and culture.

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Surry Hills (3 Days, Term 4)

Day 1 – Friday 1 November 2024

Day 2 – Friday 15 November 2024

Day 3 – Friday 29 November 2024

Federation House

23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010

Day 1 – Speaking and Listening
  1. Principles of second language learning
  2. Lexical density and grammatical intricacy: The relationship between grammar and vocabulary development
  3. The Mode Continuum
  4. Elaborated and restricted codes and the relationship between L1 and L2
  5. Strategies for developing oral language through planning and the cyclical use of range of activities, e.g. communicative activities, group work, drama, rhymes, chants, poems. Link back to the mode continuum.
  6. Select a picture book and, based on today’s session, prepare strategies. Explanation of task for Session 2.
Day 2 – Reading
  1. Introduction of Field, Tenor and Mode.
  2. Before, during and after reading and in preparation for writing with a focus on:
    – field building activities to acknowledge and build on cultural knowledge (before)
    – intonation, pronunciation, punctuation and spelling (during)
    – inferential comprehension (after)
  3. Strategies for categorising vocabulary and working with language features
  4. Share strategies for selected picture book with a small group
  5. Explanation of task for Session 3.
Day 3 – Writing
  1. The teaching and learning cycle
  2. Identifying strategies for developing writing through a joint construction.
  3. Strategies for supporting written like text, eg Readers Theatre, Dictogloss, Running dictation, Advance /Detail
  4. Making links to the community through writing for a purpose
  5. Prepare notes for the joint construction of a Literary Recount and an Exposition using selected text.
Joanne Rossbridge

Joanne Rossbridge is an independent language and literacy consultant working in both primary and secondary schools and with teachers across Australia. She has worked as a classroom teacher and literacy consultant with the DET (NSW). Her expertise and much of her experience is in working with students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Joanne is particularly interested in student and teacher talk and how talk about language can assist the development of language and literacy.

Kathy Rushton

Kathy Rushton is interested in the development of language and literacy especially in disadvantaged communities. She has worked as a classroom teacher and literacy consultant and provides professional learning for teachers in the areas of language and literacy development. Her current research projects include a study of multilingual pre-service teachers and the impact that teacher professional learning has on the development of a creative pedagogical stance which supports translanguaging and student identity and wellbeing.

Day 1

Completing Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D Students from K-8 (Speaking and Listening) will contribute 5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/EYLF addressing standard descriptors 1.3.2, 2.5.2 & 3.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

Day 2

Completing Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D Students from K-8 (Reading) will contribute 5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/EYLF addressing standard descriptors 1.3.2, 2.5.2, 3.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

Day 3

Completing Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D Students from K-8 (Writing) will contribute 5 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/EYLF addressing standard descriptors 1.3.2, 2.5.2, 3.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

Primary and Secondary teachers who support EAL/D students in both small groups and mainstream classrooms.

$660 for 3 days

Three whole day workshops with participants actively engaged in each session and undertaking reading and assignments between sessions.

The NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre is a registered COVID safe business, and all courses are run in compliance with the Federation’s COVID safety plan.

“Perfect balance of theory vs practical strategies. The theories and strategies will be impossible to forget – putting it into practice between session was great.”

“Loved the depth of knowledge on all aspects of literacy in the context of EAL/D learners.”

“So glad I attended – have learnt so much and feel inspired to share what I have learnt.”

“Presenters are absolutely fabulous! The perfect amount of banter and professionalism. They are experts in their field, and it shows. They invite the learner in – whatever level of knowledge they are coming with.”

JPL Articles

Critical Literacy in English and History: Stages 3 & 4
Critical Literacy in English and History: Stages 3 & 4
Helping Your Students to Become Better Writers
Helping Your Students to Become Better Writers
Tell Me Your Story: Working with EAL/D Students in Mainstream Classrooms
Tell Me Your Story: Working with EAL/D Students in Mainstream Classrooms

Assessment Literacy for School Teachers

Assessment Literacy for School Teachers

The CPL and The University of Sydney’s Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment (CEMA) have entered into a collaborative partnership to deliver professional learning Literacy modules for all K-12 teachers.

About the Assessment Literacy modules

The six modules include video presentations by Professor Jim Tognolini, downloadable PDF files, formative self-assessment, reflective questions, recommended short readings, and collaborative webinar opportunities.

Each module will take you between four and six hours to complete and achieve the requisite PD hours towards maintenance of accreditation.

You will be able to: develop an understanding that assessment involves professional judgement based upon an image formed by the collection of information and is used to locate student performance on a developmental continuum; contextualise the role of assessment in teaching, and know, understand and use assessment related terms and strategies including reliability, validity, assessment for learning, assessment of learning, performance standards, and normreferenced assessment. Modules also include a specific consideration of the standards referenced system used in NSW, predicated on a measurement model.

Module 1 – Modern assessment theory including standards referencing

Module 2 – Constructing selected response and short-answer items including Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) items

Module 3 – Constructing extended response and performance tasks, and writing analytic and holistic rubrics

Module 4 – Evaluating the function and classroom assessment tasks and tests

Module 5 – Examining the impact of feedback on learning

Module 6 – Exploring the role of moderation and reporting in classroom assessment

  • A leading expert in educational assessment has designed the modules
  • You can start the fully-online modules when convenient and complete them at your own pace
  • Each module is competitively priced
  • Each module is accredited 
  • Modules address Standard Descriptors in Proficient Teacher Standard 5: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning (5.1.2, 5.2.2, 5.3.2, 5.4.2, 5.5.2)
  • The University of Sydney has approved the modules for articulation to postgraduate award courses. Details are available on the Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment’s website

Please click here for further details on Assessment and Data Literacy.
Data Literacy modules will be available at a later date.

$300 for each module.

Federation financial members are eligible to receive a 10% discount on each module.

On confirmation of your financial membership with the NSW Teachers Federation, you will be sent further details on how to register for the modules.

All Teachers K-12

These modules are delivered online and can be completed at your own pace.

  • Professional Learning in Assessment and Data Literacy
  • CEMA: Who we are, What we do

Leading Assessment Practice in Schools K-12

Leading Assessment Practice in Schools K-12

Overview

What does assessment practice look like in your school?

Is there an agreed understanding across the school community of the meaning and purpose of evidence, assessment theory and practice, feedback, and evaluation? How does your school implement a common approach to assessment?

Professor Jim Tognolini from the University of Sydney’s Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment (CEMA) will lead an interactive and content-driven professional learning experience that will unpack the definitions and purpose of data, evidence, assessment, feedback and evaluation. We will explore the importance of teacher voice in assessment and how to lead a collaborative approach to assessment practice across the school community.

Over two days, this course will focus on the role of teachers and school leaders in supporting colleagues to evaluate the effectiveness of their approach to assessment.

Participants will have an opportunity to consider how to successfully lead a shift in school-wide assessment practice through a collective approach within their own school context.

This course is NESA Accredited. Please expand the ‘Accreditation’ bar for further details.

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Online via Zoom

Day 1 – Thursday 24, October

Day 2 – Thursday 7, November

Prof Jim Tognolini

Professor Jim Tognolini is Director of The Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment (CEMA) which is situated within the University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work. The work of the Centre is focused on the broad areas of teaching, research, consulting and professional learning for teachers.

The Centre is currently providing consultancy support to a number of schools. These projects include developing a methodology for measuring creativity; measuring 21st Century Skills; developing school-wide practice in formative assessment. We have a number of experts in the field: most notably, Professor Jim Tognolini, who in addition to conducting research offers practical and school-focused support.

Lisa Edwards

Lisa Edwards is a school leader passionate about the potential of public education to change lives.

With over 20 years of experience with the NSW Department of Education, working in schools in Sydney’s south and southwest, Lisa is an English teacher by training, and at heart. Her leadership journey has included the roles of Head Teacher Wellbeing, Head Teacher English, and Deputy Principal. She has developed resources and presented on assessment, pedagogy and programming, working in collaboration with the Department’s secondary curriculum team, and has published and presented for the NSW English Teachers’ Association. Lisa received an Australian Council for Educational Leaders award and a Premier’s Award for Public Service for her work leading improvement in literacy and HSC achievement, and currently presents for the NSW Teachers’ Federation’s Centre for Professional Learning on leading lifting achievement and quality assessment practice.

Lisa is a strong advocate for public education and educational equity, dedicated to supporting teachers in public schools to maximise learning outcomes and, therefore, opportunities for our students. 

Completing Leading Assessment Practice in Schools: K-12 will contribute 10 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/EYLF addressing standard descriptors 5.1.3, 5.2.3, 5.4.3 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher or Highly Accomplished Accreditation in NSW.

K-12 teachers and school leaders who support and work with teacher colleagues to build capacity through collaboration.

$440 for 2 days

Online via Zoom (24 October and 7 November 2024).

“Amazing presenters. Knowledgeable and relevant information that applies to transformational change regarding new curriculum.”

“Really logical and practical discussion and explanation of key principles which completely resonated.”

“Great conversations had reflecting on current school practices and the change that is needed.”

“This course was a wonderful opportunity to delve and immerse in assessment.”

The Teacher’s Voice in Educational Assessment
Confidence using Assessment Data and Statistics K-12
The Beginning of a Journey to Assessment and Data Literacy for Teachers
Understanding students’ higher order thinking skills through the lens of assessment

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