Excellence in Classroom Teaching: Sharing best pedagogical practice - A Conference for Primary and Secondary Teachers - Guildford Grammar School
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Excellence in Classroom
Teaching: Sharing best
pedagogical practice
A Conference for Primary and
Secondary Teachers
Guildford Grammar School
Saturday 15 September 2018, 8.00am-4.30pm
$150 for teachers, $100 for practicum teachers
Guildford Grammar School is hosting its fourth one-day Excellence in Classroom Teaching conference,
for Primary and Secondary School teachers, as well as people training to be teachers. Perth teachers are
often frustrated by the lack of opportunities to enjoy good quality professional development focusing on
sound classroom practice which they can use immediately with their own students.
To fill this gap, our conference presents a wide range of relevant workshops, sharing strategies and resources
that can be taken back and used immediately in your classroom. Each delegate will have the opportunity
to participate in four workshops of their choice, from those outlined below. Popular sessions will be held
several times to ensure as many delegates as possible are able to attend the workshops of their choice.
WORKSHOPS
1 Playing with Mr Pete Ashby You thought that matches were only useful for lighting fires. Not so!
Matches Director of Outdoor This workshop is all about puzzles, games and lateral thinking using the
Education humble match (having said that our giant matches are not so humble!).
Workshops 3 & 4 Suitable for any age group. These activities can be used inside and
Primary and outside the classroom, in fact, anywhere you can take a box of matches.
Senior They are designed to stimulate students’ thinking and processing and
are suited to both individuals and groups. Used up all the matches? No
worries, Pete will also get you to safely light fires without matches. This
too can be used with any age group as the Guildford Grammar School
Year 1 students will attest.
2 Energising your Mrs Sarah Barnes Bring your laptop along to this interactive workshop which will introduce
Maths class with Mathematics Teacher some of the capabilities of the free Desmos graphing calculator app and
Desmos show how it can energise your Mathematics class. We start by learning
the basics, create some artwork using actual mathematical equations and
Workshop 4 then look at some of the ready to go lessons that students really enjoy.
Primary & Senior There is a place for Desmos in every Mathematics class, whether you
are extending high achieving students, or nurturing the mathematically
challenged.
3 Art as therapy Ms Jayne Baayens This will be a practical session where you can experience the benefits of
and relaxation School Counsellor art as therapy and relaxation as well as demonstrating how you can use
art in the classroom to support student wellbeing.
Workshop 3
Primary & Senior
4 A Maths Ms Nastassia Carter As an open-enrolment school, we work alongside students with various
intervention that Mathematics Teacher learning difficulties and disabilities. This workshop will describe our Maths
works intervention program, the resources we have used to support it and the
results we have seen so far.
Workshops 3 & 4
Primary & Senior
5 Teaching and Mr Rod Manson It doesn’t matter if you are in a laptop or a BYOD school, there are some
Learning with Head of e-Learning common factors that will promote the enrichment and engagement
Technology - of teaching and learning with technology in your classroom. There will
some aspects be three pillars of success presented and will include; Bloom’s Digital
worth Taxonomy, the SAMR Model and the TPACK model. You will also
considering be challenged to consider your own personal view on the direction of
education and how technology is having an influence on this direction.
Workshops 1 & 2
Primary and
Senior
6 24 strengths for Ms Katherine Cheng Psychology has (or had) the reputation for focusing on mental illness
you and your School Counsellor rather than mental health, disease rather than wellness, the ‘abnormal’
students or what’s outside the norm rather than the ‘normal’ or the ordinary. This
has changed and the work of psychologists including Martin Seligman,
Workshops 1 & 2 Barbara Fredrickson, Sonja Lyubormirsky and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Primary & Senior have focused (or re-focused) on flourishing, broadening and building, the
‘how’ of happiness and flow. (For the curious, these can also be used as
search terms). Learn about 24 VIA (Values in Action) Core Strengths,
your Top Strengths (as well as the ‘shadow’ side). Learn about ‘strengths-
spotting’ (may share some characteristics with trainspotting, or not) and
‘24 ways’ to ‘see’ (‘re-view’) yourself, your students and other people you
work with.
7 Prep Art Ms Laura Nichols Come along to this workshop to share ideas, tips and tricks to best
Art Teacher utilise basic art materials in your classroom for maximum results.
Workshops 3 & 4 Come along to see just how amazing the humble crayon can be!
Primary and Senior
8 Bush Bling Mr Graham Lawson This workshop will involve participants using hand tools to make a
Head of Catalyst simple piece of jewellery using bits of natural objects found in the
Workshops 1 & 2 bush. We run this activity at our outdoor education camps and it is
Primary & Senior always popular with students. Easy to organise, with little necessary
equipment and links to many other areas of the curriculum (creative
writing, technology, etc) you will be inspired to get this activity going
with your students next week.
9 Adapting a growth Mr Taylor Colton Student ownership and creation are the foundations for facilitating
mindset in the Year 6 Teacher a growth mindset. What does it look like in the classroom? How
classroom can we provide an environment that is not only comfortable, but
generates growth in all our students?
Workshops 3 & 4
Primary & Senior
10 Documenting Early Mrs Jo MacLachlan In this workshop for teachers of our smallest learners, ELC specialists
Learning and Ms Lynn Gass will share ideas on documenting learning. Taking a Reggio Emilia
Early Learning approach means thinking about new ways of recording what has
Workshops 1 & 2 Coordinator and been learnt whilst ensuring that the children also love their time at
Early Learning Teachers school and develop their creative thinking skills. Come and share
in our ongoing journey and take away things that can be included in
any early learning classroom from next week.
11 Mindfulness in the Ms Leigh Olver In this workshop, you will experience different activities relating to
classroom Preparatory School mindfulness. Discussion will consider how students and teachers
Teacher can gain from an awareness of mindful practices.
Workshops 1 & 2
Primary and Senior
12 Updating your CV Dr Julie Harris Investing in ourselves is rarely at the forefront of our plans. Choosing
and writing a letter Director of Teaching a workshop on successful CV writing could provide you with the
of application and Learning time necessary to update your professional development listing.
Hear what senior leaders are looking for when they peruse your
Workshops 3 & 4 application and get some ideas on what should and shouldn’t be
Primary & Senior included. Bring your CV and draft letter along, whatever state it’s in.
13 Exploring the use Mr James Perrin and This experiential and exploratory workshop is designed to stimulate
of role-playing Mr Josh Credaro discussion and inspire teachers to identify possible uses of role
games and shared Religion, Philosophy playing and shared story-telling in an educational setting. Maximum
story-telling in the & Ethics Teacher, of 12 participants only.
classroom Education Assistant
Workshops 1 & 2
Primary & Senior
14 Brain breaks Mr Daniel Griffiths Brain Breaks are kinaesthetic thinking activities used to refocus
Preparatory School students’ attention. This is a practical session exploring easy ideas,
Workshops 1 & 2 Sportsmaster resources and apps to assist alertness and concentration in class.
Primary & Senior
15 Gifted and Talented Mr Andrew Bacon Strategies to ensure that highly able students are challenged in
Head of Academic your lessons. Applies to any subject and age groups from Year 5
Workshops 1 & 2 Talent Development upwards.
Primary & Senior
16 The importance of Ms Janet Wilmot This workshop will look at the many and varied forms of feedback
feedback Director of Pedagogy, teachers can use to inform and improve their practice. Feedback
Preparatory School from students, colleagues, line managers, parents and self-reflection
Workshops 1 & 2 can all play a role in providing one with the information needed to
Primary & Senior better cater for the students’ varying needs and to improve teaching
practice.
17 Easy techniques Mr Ben Mattick Anyone can draw or paint anything using a few accessible tools
and tools when Preparatory School and simple techniques. When creating an artwork, getting the right
creating an artwork Art Teacher perspective, positioning and detail in the initial sketch can be crucial
to the success of the finished product. Some students can really
Workshops 3 & 4 struggle to create or copy a picture when free hand drawing, and
Primary & Senior this can lead to a lack of confidence, care and engagement when
creating an artwork. These simple tools can set a student up to
succeed and send them in the right direction to create an artwork
that they are proud of and excited to display and show to others.
18 What about the very Ms Janet Wilmot This workshop will look at some practical ways teachers and
able in a primary Director of Pedagogy, schools can provide for the very able in the primary school
school context? Preparatory School classroom. With the wide range of abilities in any class,
the very able present a challenge to teachers, much like
Workshops 3 & 4 those who experience difficulties with learning, yet schools
Primary often cater for and provide assistance to class teachers for
students with disabilities and learning difficulties and little for
the very able. What can reasonably be done?
19 Applying Service Ms Selinna Forward Transforming service learning – how can it be made both
Learning in the Director of Service practical and engaging for students? This workshop will
classroom Learning share ideas for a variety of service learning experiences
from small, easily-achievable ventures such as recycling
Workshops 3 & 4 projects to impressive international trips.
Primary & Senior
20 Nearpod Mr Craig Naylor Nearpod is an online teaching/learning/feedback tool all
Mathematics Teacher rolled into one, for all ages and all subject areas. You can
Workshops 1 & 2 visit Nearpod.com if you would like to learn more beforehand.
Primary & Senior
21 Use a DSLR camera Ms Emma Brown So you have a SLR camera but don’t know how to use
in manual mode in Media Teacher the manual controls in different settings? Then this is
different lighting the workshop for you. We will look at studio shoots, dark
Rembrandt lighting as well as glossy product shots and
Workshops 1 & 2 water balloon, fast shutter speed experiments. You can
Primary & Senior bring your digital SLR camera with you or borrow one of
ours. Maximum of 15 participants.
22 Why the classroom Miss Lara Bella This workshop will share ideas on how to enhance the
environment matters Education Assistant learning environment in your classroom to enrich students’
experiences. It will include ways in which teachers can
Workshops 1 & 2 improve the visual aspects of their classroom using readily
Primary & Senior available, cheap materials to make the space attractive
whilst supporting learning.
To help you make your workshop selections, each of the workshops available at each session is
listed below.
Workshop 1 - 9.00am-10.15am 5, 6, 8, 10,11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21
Workshop 2 - 10.25am-11.40am 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21
Workshop 3 - 12.50pm-2.05pm 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12, 17, 18, 19, 22
Workshop 4 - 2.15pm-3.30pm 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 17, 18, 19, 22PROGRAM 8.00am-8.30am Arrival and parking 8.45am-8.55am Official Opening and Welcome in the David Lawe Davies Centre 9.00am-10.15am Workshop 1 10.25am-11.40am Workshop 2 11.40pm-12.40pm Lunch in the Dining Hall 12.50pm-2.05pm Workshop 3 2.15pm-3.30pm Workshop 4 3.30pm-4.30pm Networking and nibbles on the Thwaites Terrace LOCATION Our school is only a 30 minute drive from the CBD. The Conference will be held mainly in the School’s Thwaites Centre, which opened in 2013. There is plenty of parking around the campus; a map and detailed information will be sent to delegates prior to the conference. The School is located on Terrace Rd, Guildford, with the main entrance running off Great Eastern Highway. REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT The Conference costs $150 per qualified teacher and $100 for trainee teachers, which includes morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and networking drinks and nibbles at the conclusion of the day. Participants can register and pay online using a credit card at www.ggs.wa.edu.au/classroom- excellence2018. Anyone seeking further information on the conference can contact the Community Relations Office on (08) 9377 9200 or email communications@ggs.wa.edu.au.
Guildford Grammar School 11 Terrace Rd, Guildford WA 6055 Conference Organiser: Dr Julie Harris Tel. (08) 9377 9222 Email. julie.harris@ggs.wa.edu.au www.ggs.wa.edu.au/classroom-excellence2018
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