Leading in Science Workshop
Calling all science leaders and budding leaders!
This session is intended for people who are current science department leaders or aspire to be one! Come along and network with other like-minded individuals whilst learning some new skills which might help you either in your current role, in the future or to further enhance the learning and teaching at your school.
Presenter: Jason Greenslade
Please note that this is a rerun of the same session that was presented last year.
Details
Date: Friday 18 November 2022
Time: 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
Venue: Education Development Centre
Bookings close: 16/11/2022
Event Pricing
| Type |
Regular price |
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Personal Member (1 day)
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$145.00 |
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Joint Member (1 day)
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$145.00 |
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Corporate Member - SA School (1 day)
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$185.00 |
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Non-Member (1 day)
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$225.00 |
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SASTA Student Member (1 day)
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$50.00 |
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1st Year of Teaching (1 day)
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$145.00 |
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2nd Year of Teaching (1 day)
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$145.00 |
Description
Topics covered will include:
- Leading learning and teaching – some ways to organise work and processes in a modern science faculty
- Setting high (but achievable) standards for students
- Timetabling - putting people in the right places
- Organisation of faculty work jobs and roles (leaders within a faculty)
- Working consistently – tasks, pedagogy and process
- A framework for consistency in tasks, planning and execution whilst encouraging individuality within classroom instruction
- Running effective meetings – use of agendas and minutes effectively
- Managing staff performance in learning and teaching
- How to encourage staff ‘buy-in’ and handle change
- Lesson observations as a tool for moving to reflective practise – how to encourage and embed the use of the AITSL standards
- Including how to conduct lesson observations
- How to effectively gather student data on learning and teaching
- Review processes + processes for improvement
- Goal setting and review
- Using data for improvement – ICAS, results, SACE etc.
- How to write a targeted action plan for strategic improvement + how to review it
- Faculty based internal moderation – how to organise, carry out and review
- Pedagogy sharing and its importance + getting the most out of PL
- Laboratory technicians and laboratories – encouraging best practice and performance + potential ways to organise labs to streamline practical management
- Online Practical Ordering – options and usefulness
- New buildings? Considerations and what we learned from our building programme and new laboratories
