Description
You are invited to attend a presentation by three schools about their journeys through a 12-month action research project aimed at improving student, teacher and whole-of-school wellbeing. Primary, middle and secondary schools were involved in the project, which targeted students from Years 5 to 10. The presentations will be followed by a two-hour workshop about social and emotional skills as academic enablers, facilitated by Associate Professor Katherine Main of Griffith University.
Throughout the action research project, each school team built capacity around identifying an issue relevant to their school context and developing a plan, and then implementing that plan through a cycle of continual improvement. The overarching aim of the Raising Trailblazers project was to support school teams to undertake school reform and continue on future cycles of improvement without the need for external assistance.
Participants will have the opportunity to hear about the experiences of the project teams and there will be ample opportunity to question the school teams as well as the project facilitators, Associate Professor Katherine Main of Griffith University and Associate Professor Anne Coffey of the University of Notre Dame.
In the afternoon, Dr Katherine Main will present the workshop, Social and emotional skills: Academic enablers. Recognising that early adolescence is a key developmental period that teachers can capitalise on, this session will examine how to promote the development of social and emotional skills within day-to-day teaching in a classroom.
Presenters
Katherine Main
Dr Katherine Main is a Senior Lecturer and Program Leader in the School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University. Katherine started her career as a primary teacher but found her passion in being a strong advocate for young adolescents and helping others understand this unique stage of development. Her research interests focus on student engagement and intentional pedagogies that motivate and engage young adolescent learners. Her most recent work has been exploring the bidirectional influences of student and teacher wellbeing and, in particular, understanding programs and practices that reengage young people in learning.
Anne Coffey
Dr Anne Coffey is the Associate Dean Teaching and Learning in the School of Education at The University of Notre Dame (Fremantle campus). She has over twenty years experience in teaching at the secondary level in a variety of metropolitan and country government schools. Anne has held a variety of positions at the district level for the Department of Education. Anne is an Associate Professor and teaches courses at both the undergraduate and post-graduate level. Anne has a strong interest in advocating for the needs of early adolescents and researches, in particular, in the areas of the transition of students from primary to secondary school, literacy in the middle years and middle school student leadership. Other research interests include the role of service-learning, youth mentoring and school reform.
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Segments
Raising Trailblazers
Date / Time
14 Oct 2022 Starts: 08:45 Finishes: 15:00Delivery Format : In Person
AISWA Training Room Suite 1
AddressSuite 1, 41 Walters Drive
Osborne Park WA 6017
Australia