The Bulletin 1 April 2021 Term 1 - Issue 10

Term
1
Issue
10

AISWA Professional Learning and other educational events, news and information

Featured AISWA Professional Learning
Date Event Title Code
Jan 27 2021
AISWA ONLINE LEARNING: Beginning to code with micro:bit and MakeCode
  • AISWA Online Learning
  • Part 1 27th Jan 2021
  • Part 2 8th Apr - 9th Apr 2021
12946
Apr 12 2021
2021 HALT Certification Portfolio Development Session
  • Leadership
12860
Apr 14 2021
Teaching Digital Technologies: The curriculum and the classroom.
  • ICT Skills and Integration
  • STEM
  • Technologies
13011
Apr 15 2021
AISWA's One Day Maths Conference Making the Most of Maths Lessons: Six key Ideas
  • Mathematics
  • Numeracy
12880
Apr 21 2021
STEM: Getting the ball rolling and building momentum
  • Science
  • STEM
  • Technologies
13010
Apr 28 2021
Mental Health First Aid for Non Suicidal Self-Injury
  • Psychology and Wellbeing
12931
Apr 29 2021
2021 Women in Leadership Network Movie Night - Postponed
  • Leadership
13023
Apr 30 2021
Adolescent Success "Meet you in the Middle" Conference AISWA Hub
  • Literacy
13034
May 6 2021
Improving Workflows to Address Workload: Efficiency of ICT Applications and Staff Wellbeing
  • ICT Skills and Integration
  • IT/Network Administration
  • Leadership
13038
May 14 2021
Computers for beginners: First steps in ICT integration
  • ICT Skills and Integration
13036
May 20 2021
Youth Mental Health First Aid
  • Psychology and Wellbeing
  • Part 1 20th May 2021
  • Part 2 27th May 2021
12927
Aug 18 2021
2021 Join the Women in Educational Leadership Network
  • Leadership
12846

Early Childhood Breakfast – Thrive by Five – April 30th

School leaders and School Board members are invited to listen to  Jay Weatherill, Early Childhood Champion and CEO of Thrive by Five, at our next Early Childhood Breakfast. Jay will share Early Years Initiative strategies to meet the vision of ‘Every child in every community has equal opportunity to grow and thrive.’ For more information, please click Here 

Student Perspectives of Online Safety

Online safety is at the forefront of many educators' minds and with the right tools we can strengthen our knowledge and practices. The Office of the eSafety Commissioner has produced a set of resources to help schools understand students’ perspectives on online safety. These surveys, with accompanying educator notes, are suitable for children in kindy through to year 12. For more information, pleasse click  Here

2021 Raising Trailblazers: Reimagining the Middle Years

Middle school teachers! You won’t want to miss out on the chance to be part of this impressive action research project – Raising Trailblazers: Reimagining the Middle Years – a collaboration by Griffith University, University of Notre Dame and AISWA. An innovative and supported action learning project that addresses an area of focus on wellbeing and student engagement in the middle years (6-10) Schools that have already applied have commented on the project’s well-scaffolded design and the potential benefits for students and teachers, as well as the chance to publish in a professional text
For more information or support to complete the application, please contact Pat Kershaw: pkershaw@ais.wa.edu.au or Jill Buckrell: jbuckrell@ais.wa.edu.au
For information to apply click Here

Year 12 ATAR English – Improving Student Performance Workshops

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) will be conducting a series of workshops designed to support improving student performance in Year 12 ATAR English. Attendance is optional and capacity at each venue is limited. An individual teacher should not register more than once and it is requested that each school sends no more than two representatives. The workshops will focus on the Responding section of the 2020 exam and on some texts relevant to that section.  Details of all workshops can be accessed when the teacher registers online from the Authority website. For more information, please click Here 

KS:CPC Train-the-trainer course - AISWA member schools

For AISWA member schools - Teachers only.

The Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum (KS:CPC) is a comprehensive child safety and respectful relationships curriculum for children and young people ages 3 to 17+. Teachers that deliver the KS:CPC to children and young people must complete the full day KS:CPC Educator course.This 2-day course includes the Educator course and the Train-the-trainer course and is available to teachers from AISWA members schools. For more information and to register please click Here