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Presented by Datacom, hosted by AISWA The AI in K-12 Education Symposium on March 23rd, 2023 is a must-attend event for educators, administrators, and industry professionals. Join us as we explore the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it can be integrated into K-12 education safely and with student outcomes in mind. Our line-up of expert speakers and thought leaders will delve into topics such as what AI is (and isn’t), its current and future capabilities, an...

A full day workshop for primary and secondary language teachers to examine features of a rich task and the opportunity to create a rich language task designed to maximise student engagement. This professional learning session explores the features of rich tasks in language learning and will allow participants to design their own task for implementation to a specific group of learners. Rich and culminating tasks, combined with an inquiry approach, help to build confidence, connect students to ...

The 2023 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 a plethora of guest speakers who invite participants on a journey of collaboration, exploration and reflection. The 2023 Middle Leaders Program consists of four modules. These are: 1. Middle leader identity 2. Middle leaders - ...

A review of the main principles taught at the Many Languages - One Methodology Course and an opportunity to discuss and reflect on current practice. This is a follow up session for any previous attendee of the Many Languages - One Methodology Course. There will be a review of the principles and practices and an opportunity to discuss successes and challenges. There will also be time to address issues around power and curriculum, and the concept of leadership from the middle. The sessions w...

Term 1 VET Coordinators & Careers Educators Network Meeting We welcome you to the first VET Coordinators meeting for 2023. We are fortunate to have access to the Construction Futures Centre as the host venue for this meeting.  The day will include an interactive tour of the centre and presentations from: - SCSA - TAFE  - Department of Training and Workforce Development - Jobs & Skills WA - MPA Skills - Construction Training 

This 5 day Health and Safety Representative training course will be delivered by Unity Training, an approved health and safety representative training provider who have substantial experience delivering the course to school based participants. The courses will be conducted at the AISWA offices in Osborne Park. The cost for the 5 days will be $760 per person. Please note that although not essential the trainers strongly recommended that all those attending the HSR training have been elected...

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...

Pre-requisite: Completed an AISWA Brightpath: Next Steps. Leading Innovative Teaching course   This is an opportunity to share how Brightpath: Next Steps is working for you and your school. Bring along all your great ideas.   Please join us for an informal networking session at AISWA and hear how others have been using the resources. We are also launching our fourth case study from Kukerin Primary School!   Light refreshments will be provided.

Are you looking to build your cultural confidence? Join Jessica Staines, Director of Koori Curriculum for a live webinar on embedding Aboriginal perspectives into your everyday programming. In this live webinar, Jessica Staines, a Wiradjuri woman and early childhood teacher aims to build your cultural confidence and capacity by demonstrating ways to meaningfully and respectfully include Aboriginal perspectives in your everyday programming.  Link to come closer to the time of PL. ...

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...

This 5 day Health and Safety Representative training course will be delivered by Unity Training, an approved health and safety representative training provider who have substantial experience delivering the course to school based participants. The courses will be conducted at the AISWA offices in Osborne Park. The cost for the 5 days will be $760 per person. Please note that although not essential the trainers strongly recommended that all those attending the HSR training have been elected...

This course focuses on teaching decoding through the GUIDED READING component of your reading program. It provides an efficient routine that gets results. This workshop provides participants with: -The 5-bit routine provides a simple instructional guide to teach decoding and prepares students to transfer to more complex comprehension skills.  - an understanding of how learners begin to read and progress toward competent decoding - an explicit, transferable routine for instruction, t...

This 5 day Health and Safety Representative training course will be delivered by Unity Training, an approved health and safety representative training provider who have substantial experience delivering the course to school based participants. The courses will be conducted at the AISWA offices in Osborne Park. The cost for the 5 days will be $760 per person. Please note that although not essential the trainers strongly recommended that all those attending the HSR training have been elected...

Professional learning relating to the issues faced by learners for whom English is an additional language or dialect (EAL/D). This session provides advice to primary and secondary classroom teachers to support such students, and to make use of the linguistic and cultural knowledge and understandings that EAL/D learners bring to the classroom. Learning academic content in a second language raises issues that are considerably different from learning academic content in a familiar language. &nbs...

Are you a highly effective and skilled classroom practitioner who regularly guides advises 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. This group will meet four times during the year, to help build your collection of evidence demonstrating the impact you...

Do you want to learn more about how to use your On-Entry data? Classroom teachers are encouraged to register for this online PL to hear how they can use their class's data to effectively to plan and deliver differentiated learning programs? School leaders are encouraged to register to assist them with how to use their school's data to inform whole-school planning and review, reflect on the effectiveness of current programs, priorities or initiatives by looking at trends over time and identify pr...

In 2023, there will be two Wellbeing Network meetings per term. Please register for each network meeting separately! Our face2face Wellbeing Network meetings will be held in schools. These are sharing sessions whereby all participants are encouraged to come along and celebrate their school’s wellbeing journey to date, ask questions, and utilise the expertise amongst the group to discuss successes and challenges experienced. Term 1 – AISWA, 29 March 2023 Term 2 – Frederick Irwin Anglica...

This 5 day Health and Safety Representative training course will be delivered by Unity Training, an approved health and safety representative training provider who have substantial experience delivering the course to school based participants. The courses will be conducted at the AISWA offices in Osborne Park. The cost for the 5 days will be $760 per person. Please note that although not essential the trainers strongly recommended that all those attending the HSR training have been elected...

*The cost for this program is $1,000/school* Every child deserves the right to be supported to grow in a safe and healthy environment.  Wellbeing is at the heart of positive learning outcomes and the development of responsible and engaged citizens (Runions & Cross, 2022). Schools have a crucial role in developing children’s mental health, by establishing a wellbeing culture, targeted responses, and well-equipped educators (National Mental Health Commission, 2021). The most effecti...

This course focuses on comprehension teaching in the secondary classroom. 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 • classroom strategies to enable students to be active in their reading and increase engagement in their learning. The Sharp Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction routine can be used fo...

The focus for this network meeting is broad and includes the 7-10 Syllabus, as well as all of the Senior Secondary Courses.  Teachers have the opportunity to share relevant resources and knowledge. This course is run in conjunction with Catholic Education WA. 8:30am                         Registration and networking 8.55am     &nb...

This 5 day Health and Safety Representative training course will be delivered by Unity Training, an approved health and safety representative training provider who have substantial experience delivering the course to school based participants. The courses will be conducted at the AISWA offices in Osborne Park. The cost for the 5 days will be $760 per person. Please note that although not essential the trainers strongly recommended that all those attending the HSR training have been elected...

Mathematics can be complicated to teach, therefore we want to maximise the time spent with students and the tasks that we provide for them. In this one-day session we will briefly examine some HIGH IMPACT TEACHING STRATEGIES (HITS). A few HITS will be chosen and applied specifically to the teaching of mathematics. Participants will be given a brief background reading to illustrate key HITS that can be shared with colleagues at school. Sample tasks will be shared that illustrate how HITS may be i...