TELL Course - PART 2 12 hrs *Includes a twilight

Note: To enrol in this course, you must have completed PART 1 in Term 1.

Teaching English Language Learners (TELL) is aimed at preparing every teacher in professional knowledge and application of differentiating the Australian Curriculum for the English as an Additional Language learner. The course explores developing an understanding of EAL/D education as well as appropriate language and literacy strategies in teaching EAL/D learners. TELL participants are taken through 6 modules with a trained facilitator including:

· Learning English as an Additional Language or Dialect,

· Creating High Challenge, High Support environments,

· Talking to learn,

· Reading to learn,

· Writing to learn and

· Bringing it all together.

Speech Pathology NEW

This new course is designed to develop teachers’ knowledge of practical classroom strategies that can best support students with speech disorders. Participants will explore how students’ capacity to communicate, through listening and speaking, can be improved through modification of classroom practice.

Microsoft 365 (Hallab)

The course will demonstrate the use of many online apps that Office 365 provides to enable the creation of engaging and effective teaching and learning resources.

Engagement is gained from the use of collaborative ICT. Collaborative online apps will be demonstrated such as OneDrive for online storage, Word Online for word processing, PowerPoint Online for presentation creation, OneNote Class Notebook for notebook creation and Sway for online page and resource creation. Effective teaching and learning is gained through using such apps where accessibility is increased as the content can be accessed online anytime and anywhere on multiple devices such as computers and mobile phones. These apps will be used ethically and safely as teaching tools where teachers can create work for students as well as students being able to create their own work for class tasks and assignments.

Completing Microsoft 365 for Classrooms will contribute 5 hours of NESA Registered Professional Development addressing: 3.4.2, 6.2.2, and 6.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

Classroom Management Boot Camp

In this course, teachers will learn about a theoretical and practical approach to classroom management. The course will focus on 3 different approaches to behaviour management and how it will look in the classroom. Teachers will apply the theories to case studies and discuss the effectiveness and limitations to the different approaches. By the conclusion of the course, teachers will gain a greater understanding of the variety of strategies available and possibly adopt elements of a strategy or adapt to their own methods to create a more effective learning environment.

Ethical Decision Making

This course has been developed to support teachers in understanding policy documents and school systems and processes in their decision making. It is particularly relevant to new staff in the school or beginning teachers.

Staff will delve into numerous scenario based workshops to determine ethical, policy-based decisions that are professional and comply with department direction.

Supporting Support Students

This course is designed to guide teachers in supporting students who require additional support. Participants will explore the challenges that students face, learn how to recognise and support behaviours in the classroom, and improve their capacity to differentiate to cater for students’ unique learning needs.

Differentiation at CHS

In this course, teachers will build their capacity to differentiate existing teaching programs to cater for the needs of diverse learners at Cabramatta High School.

Using research based methodology by Ralph Pirozzo, teachers across subjects will be provided with tools and methods of differentiating teaching and learning.

• Teachers will be provided with models and strategies for implementation.

• Teachers will be able to adapt the resources provided to create their own differentiated programs for classroom use.

• At the conclusion of the course, teachers will evaluate the effectiveness of these programs for classroom use.

As a result, teachers will build their capacity to engage learners across stages 4-6. By producing differentiated learning opportunities, teachers will provide educational equity and improve the educational outcomes for students at Cabramatta High School.

Aboriginal Outback Adventure

This exciting new PL will explore the experiences of CHS staff who engaged in a cultural exchange and taught for a week at a high school in Burke. They will share strategies, cultural knowledge and guide educators in being responsive to Australia’s first peoples.

Scouting for Data (Podeschwa)

This is a course designed to support teachers in navigating SCOUT, the DoE’s new platform for data and analysis. Teachers will be supported in accessing student NAPLAN data, analysing the data and producing reports to assist with monitoring student performance at CHS.

Core Legal Issues

The course will focus on the following;

• Duty of care

• Supervision

• Family Law and schools

• Privacy and social media

• Record keeping

• Discrimination

• Subpoenas and Legal Requests

Mind Matters - Be You (Online)

Mind Matters is a mental health initiative for secondary schools that aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people. It is a PL course that functions as a ‘framework’ for schools, through providing structure, guidance and support while enabling schools to build their own mental health strategy to suit their unique circumstances. In this course, participants will complete online PL modules to improve their knowledge of tools and resources that can promote positive mental health in school. See https://www.mindmatters.edu.au/ for more information.