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The 2024 Middle Leaders Program is a practical, highly interactive, and evidence-based program that stretches emerging leaders to the next stage of their personal and professional growth in school leadership.  Dynamic by nature, the program is also supported by guest speakers who invite participants on a journey of collaboration, exploration and reflection. The 2024 Middle Leaders Program consists of four modules. These are: 1. Middle leader identity 2. Middle leaders - navigating rel...

The Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum (KS:CPC) aims to help children and students from preschool to senior secondary learn to recognise abuse and develop ways of protecting themselves from abuse and, in wider terms, covers rights, relationships, responsibilities and ethical behaviour.This course will unpack the structure and core messages of the Curriculum, giving participants the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the resources and experience some of the activities and lessons. ...

In collaboration with ALTAWA, this professional learning day is designed for Arabic teachers to enhance their teaching strategies and classroom practice. Participants will engage in interactive sessions and hands-on activities while collaborating with fellow Arabic teachers.Participants will explore High-Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS), learn how to integrate AI and technology, review assessment practices, and see examples of task-based language learning. Each session will allow time for parti...

The teaching of handwriting remains an essential component of education for young learners across the early and primary years and is included in the WA curriculum (English).This holiday workshop will share with participants, some key research on the benefits of handwriting and how it supports literacy learning. Resources to support planning and programming will be provided including resources from South Australia, Victoria, NSW as well as WA. Participants will have an opportunity to explore, dis...

Designed specifically for Business Manager use, this PL is also a great opportunity for networking. Join us for a 2.5 hour session with Simon Fittock, STEM Consultant at AISWA, who is passionate about the use of AI in day-to-day workflows.How can you harness generative AI to enhance your productivity and transform the way you work? This hands-on session presents a variety of different generative AI tools and platforms that you could use to streamline your workflow. We will touch on how gene...

The inclusive education symposium provides opportunities for learning support teachers and coordinators to meet and engage in Professional Learning and networking.  The Symposium is designed to meet the specific needs in educating students with disability.  A range of presenters and activities will be made available to participants and a final outline for the day will follow. Target AudienceLearning Support Coordinators and teachers

The first year of the AISWA Early Career Teacher program is designed to support and develop educators who are in the early stages of their teaching careers. This scoped and sequenced program provides early career teachers with the necessary training, mentorship, and support to assist them in being effective and successful practitioners in the classroom, as well as active contributors to their school context. 

Are you an Education Assistant working in Early Learning or Middle years of Primary School? Do you want to enhance your skills and knowledge to better support the students you work with? This day of professional learning offers a range of sessions focused on effective communication, working with children with additional needs, oral language development and hands-on literacy and numeracy experiences. You will be provided with practical strategies and techniques that can be applied in the classroo...

Are you a highly effective and skilled classroom practitioner who regularly guides, supports or leads others?Why not be recognised for your excellent work through National Certification? Come and join a group of like-minded colleagues as you support one another to evidence your practice and achieve National Certification as a Highly Accomplished or Lead teacher. These sessions are a compulsory component of applying for Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher (HALT) status. We will meet fou...

Presented by Rebecca Duncan, AISWA Early Childhood consultant, this professional learning workshop for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten educators will unpack both the EYLF v2.0 and revised Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines, as we explore a variety of engaging contexts and practical experiences that intentionally grow children’s mathematical learning and thinking. 

Digital Literacy is every teacher’s responsibility. With the introduction of the Digital Technologies curriculum in 2018, which focuses on computational thinking and other technical skills, many schools and teachers have been left wondering how to address ICT General Capability.The results of the 2022 NAPICT assessment suggest that less than half of Year 10 students meet the proficiency standard for Digital Literacy and the results are similar for Year 6 students. Thus, there has never been a be...

An opportunity for teachers of Media to meet and discuss current issues pertaining to the Media Arts courses, to share resources and ideas, and to engage in professional learning.The focus for this network meeting is broad and includes the 7-10 syllabus, as well as the Senior Secondary courses. Teachers will have the opportunity to share relevant resources and knowledge.The course is run in conjunction with Catholic Education WA.The agenda will be finalised and distributed closer to the event.

A full-day workshop providing the opportunity to explore a range of digital technologies that are suited to second language learning for primary and secondary Languages teachers and EAL/D teachers. The workshop will provide teachers with the opportunity to explore a range of apps and platforms that are suited to second language learning. There will also be time to unpack the AI iceberg and how it can support language teachers.  Participants will have time to collaborate or work on thei...

This workshop, designed for Early Childhood leaders and educators in schools who have responsibility for the Quality Improvement Plan (QIP), will explore the connections between the National Quality Standard (NQS), the EYLF v2.0, and your school’s strategic planning.  Participants will be provided with a copy of the cross-sectoral publication, 'The National Quality Standard in Action – Western Australian Schools', which is scheduled for publication in early 2024. Together, we will explor...

Your school needs to be using the Brightpath Narrative Ruler in order to gain maximum benefit from this course.Brightpath: Next Steps creates the opportunity to nurture and develop students' writing skills through literature and a focus on language, storytelling, character, and the creative process.This PL gives teachers and aspiring leaders the unique opportunity to work with fellow professionals to improve children and young peoples' writing and reading.This Train the Trainer course provides a...

Literacy Bites are a series of workshops focused on Literacy and hosted by experts in the field. Workshops are stand alone, you can attend all or one of the workshop series. Children's Laureate - Sally RippinSally Rippin is the Australian Children's Laureate for 2024 and 2025. Sally's mission is "All kids can be readers!'.  Her immensely popular books are adored worldwide, with sales exceeding ten million copies in eighteen countries. Sally will provide an interactive workshop targeted...

This course focuses on comprehension teaching through the GUIDED READING component of your reading program. It provides an efficient routine that gets results.This workshop provides participants with:• a knowledge of the skills employed by successful readers,• an explicit, transferable routine for comprehension instruction, that empowers students and  simplifies the work of teachers• a routine that acknowledges current brain research that reduces anxiety and frees up working  memory to...

This course focuses on teaching decoding fluency through the GUIDED READING component of your reading program. It provides an efficient routine that gets results.Systematic decoding instruction is important, in part, because of the limitations of the human mind. Neural processing has severe limits in terms of capacity for attention and working memory (Craik & Lockhart, 1972).Brains can only pay attention to so much information at a given time. If comprehension is going to take place during r...

The 2024 Emerging Leaders Program consists of four scoped and sequenced modules that develop the knowledge, skills, and understandings of identified educators who wish to pursue promotional positions in AISWA schools. The four modules are:1. Leadership today for tomorrow2. Communication and relationships3. Strategy, negotiation and influence4. Gauging impact for improvementNOTE: Participants in this program are requireed to complete a DISC profile.Embark on a transformative journey where your po...

This 14 hour course teaches adults how to assist adolescents who are experiencing a mental health crisis or developing a mental health problem. The course is suitable for adults working with adolescents (those aged between 12 and 18 years), however, it can also be relevant for those helping people who are a little younger or older. Course Content Participants will learn about adolescent development and the signs and symptoms of these mental health problems, where and how to get help and...

During this full day workshop, you will explore the impact of physical forces through leveraging, lifting, swinging and moving and investigate how engineers utilise these forces. You will define the purpose of engineering and consider what a world without engineering would be like.The workshop will help you recognise opportunities for technical learning in everyday life and show you how to scaffold children’s eagerness to invent, produce, analyse and experiment. You will recognise individual pre...

This 14 hour course teaches adults how to assist adolescents who are experiencing a mental health crisis or developing a mental health problem. The course is suitable for adults working with adolescents (those aged between 12 and 18 years), however, it can also be relevant for those helping people who are a little younger or older. Course Content Participants will learn about adolescent development and the signs and symptoms of these mental health problems, where and how to get help and...

A professional learning course for teachers wishing to develop knowledge and skills in second language acquisition/learning.This professional learning program is held over 7 days throughout 2024. It is designed to provide teachers with a collaborative and supportive environment through which they can engage with contemporary approaches, and future challenges associated with the implementation of the Australian and Western Australian Curriculum for Languages.The program provides a rich blend of t...

Network days provide opportunities for teachers to meet and engage in Professional Learning throughout the academic year.  The Network Days are designed to meet the specific needs of teachers engaged in the various English courses.  A range of presenters and activities are sourced for these events to address the demands of each of the courses. A chance for HoLA’s and teachers to collaborate in the construction of Course and Assessment Outlines for your respective schools for 2025. ...

The course provides an in-depth analysis of the chair’s accountabilities and relationships with other board members and the principal.You will explore the chair’s role both inside and outside the boardroom and take part in a forum for participants to discreetly discuss leadership, relationship management, and governance issues—including board selection, board processes, and principal succession planning.The course will also provide a rare opportunity to discuss common school governance issues –s...