Spirit of Learning2017 29th -30th AprilHilton Hotel, Brisbane

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A conference for beginning and establishing teachers

www.beta.asn.au

BETA Beginning and Establishing Teachers' Association

Exciting new partnership for 2017

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Keynote Speakers

Tony Ryan

Mark Davidson created Classroom Profiling in 1996. It grew from the development of workshops he was presenting on the Microskills for Managing Behaviour which were revised in the 2000’s to become the Essential Skills for Classroom Manage-ment (ESCM). These were created in answer to the beginning of 6-20 day suspension options. Education Queensland wanted to ensure that teachers were utilising positive supportive strat-egies rather than filling up the 6-20 day suspension facilities. The research done by Joyce and Showers (1995) indicated that when coaching methodologies are utilised, transference of knowledge and skills increases. His belief in the ESCM was such that he needed to create a coaching methodology to support the language of the ESCM. This was when he created Classroom Profiling, a coaching methodology to help teachers reflect on their implementation of the essential skills. It has grown to become a complex structure that helps teachers to reflect on their practice in a variety of ways. He has trained about 1500 people to various levels and continues to do so today.

For more information visit www.classroomprofiling.com

A former teacher, Tony Ryan is a learning futurist, and offers professional support to school organisations throughout the world on issues such as the future of schooling, digital pedago-gies, and educator welfare.

He is the author of the Thinkers Keys, The Ripple Effect, Mindlinks, Wrapped In Living and a series of manuals and work-books that stimulate innovative thinking in classrooms. The Thinkers Keys program has been sold and taught in at least 28 countries around the world.

In the past two decades, Tony has worked with over 1000 schools in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Tony is the founder of School2School, an organisation that encourages 1st world schools to support schools in less devel-oped countries.

For more information visit www.tonyryan.com.au

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM Saturday April 29th

8:00 Registration Opening and Welcome from Queensland Teachers’ Mutual Bank

8:30 - 10:45 Mark Davidson - Tips and Trends for Positive Behaviour

Followed by a brief presentation from Teachers’ Union Health

11:00 – 11:15 Morning Tea

Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7

11:15 – 12:30

Practical strategies for working with students

with disabilities (P-12)

Red Zone Toolbox (P-6)

Felicity Day Engagement Coach

Get The Most Out of Your Reading Groups

(P-6) Robyn Stegman

Teacher

Essential Maths Warm Ups (P-6)

Peter & Jennifer Carmichael

Principal Education HOD

Knowing Your Students: Data Literacy

(7-12) Mitch Fallon

HOD Student Performance and Engagement

Beginning Teachers: A perfect fit for Junior

Secondary (7-9)

Zoe Wilson HOD Junior Secondary

Engaging Students Through Ed-tech

(P-12) Luke Fallon

Teacher/Digital Pedagogy Coach

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:45

Practical Strategies to Close the Gap in Reading

(P-10) Kate Negri

Principal Education Advisor

How Boys Learn (P-12)

Michelle Cubis Deputy Principal

Beyond the Friday spelling test: Strategies for teaching

spelling (P-10)Pat Hipwell

MATHS: Less Content More Creativity.

(P-10) Rob Proffit-White

Principal Education HOD

How to give Effective Feedback on Drafts

(P-12) Sean Loriaux

Deputy Principal

Literacy outside of the English classroom

(7-10) Sasha McDonald HOD Humanities

Resilience in the Classroom

(7-10) Iain McLennan

HOD Student Engagement and Wellbeing

2:45 – 3:00 Afternoon Tea

3:00 – 4:15

How do you make sure thinking is visible in the

classroom? (P-6)

Therese Abberfield Teacher

Are my students engaged in the

classroom? (P-12)

Michelle Cubis Deputy Principal

Activating Comprehension in Reading

(P-6) Amanda Wicks

Principal

MATHS: adding rigour to Numeracy, STEM

Literacy, Gifted and Talented

(7-12) Rob Proffit-White

Principal Education HOD

Getting Started with Differentiation

(7-12) Sasha McDonald HOD Humanities

A-Z of Senior Schooling (10-12)

Mitch Fallon HOD Student

Performance and Engagement

Coding and Robotics 101 (P-10)

Luke Fallon Teacher/Digital Pedagogy

Coach

4:15 - 4:45 Networking and Refreshment – Provided by the Queensland Teachers Union

Sunday April 30th

8:30 – 11:45 Tony Ryan - Teaching Has a Great Future

Conference Breakfast, Ideas Expo and Classrooms in the Spotlight

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SPIRIT OF LEARNING CONFERENCE FOR BEGINNING TEACHERS APRIL 29TH – 30TH, HILTON HOTEL, BRISBANE

CONFERENCE PROGRAM Session1:8.30am–10.45amKeynoteworkshop

Tips and Trends for Positive Behaviour – Mark Davidson Mark delivers a presentation that is practical, relaxing and enjoyable. His wide experience enables administration, teachers,

assistants, aides or anyone working in education that have contact with students to gain valuable ideas in the development of

building relationships and consequently managing student behaviour.

Session2:11.15am–12.30pmPractical strategies for working with students with disabilities (P-12) This presentation explores practical aspects of curriculum and behaviour expectations that are specific to working

with students who require specific adjustments to the curriculum to maximise their learning outcomes.

Red Zone Toolbox (P-10) – Felicity Day The workshop is directed at primary educators and will focus on commonly diagnosed conditions and practical

responses and strategies for individual student classroom behaviours from the moderate to severe. Participants will

access tools and resources to prevent and respond to challenging behaviour and engage primary learners.

Get The Most Out Of Your Reading Groups (P-6) – Robyn Stegman

Reading groups and guided reading sessions ensure teachers are able to differentiate reading instruction. Find out

more about guided and independent reading and how to manage and organise reading groups in the primary

classroom.

Essential Maths Warm Ups (P-6) - Peter & Jennifer Carmichael

A look at how to practise and deepen students' ability with and disposition towards Number and Place Value. This session connects to the 'big ideas' lying behind the Australian Curriculum, while providing practical, adaptable activities and games for classroom use.

Knowing Your Students: Data Literacy (7-12) - Mitch Fallon

This session will provide attendees with an in-depth look at the data available to ensure they know their students.

Practical activities connecting the data to teaching practices will enable participants to improve their data literacy

and practices leading to improved targeted teaching.

Beginning Teachers: A perfect fit for Junior Secondary (7-9) - Zoe Wilson

Beginning teachers are uniquely positioned to make a positive impact within Junior Secondary as you get to begin

your high school journey together! This workshop will be focused on the highly particular needs of Junior Secondary

learners and how as a beginning teacher you can play to your strengths to get the most of your shared classroom

experience. The workshop will model a series of teaching strategies as well as provide the opportunity to explore

how you can bring your unique experiences to bear in your Junior Secondary classroom.

Engaging Students Through Edtech (P-12) - Luke Fallon Want to experience the practicality and engaging power of the latest edtech? This session introduces you to a comprehensive collection of edtech tools and how they are currently being used in real classrooms. Everything from your interactive whiteboard to iPads to 3D printing.

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Session3:1.30pm–2.45pm

Practical Strategies to Close the Gap in Reading (P-10) - Kate Negri

How Boys Learn (P-12) – Michelle Cubis

A workshop providing a conceptual framework and practical strategies for teachers to improve levels of engagement

for boys in the classroom.

Beyond the Friday spelling test: Strategies for teaching spelling (3-10) – Pat Hipwell

Spelling is a highly valued skill and a necessary tool for successful writing. Too often, however, it is simply tested rather than taught. This workshop examines common approaches to spelling, the pitfalls of these approaches, and better spelling practices. The four spelling knowledges – Phonological, Morphemic, Etymological and Visual – are explained. The workshop also outlines some basic principles of spelling instruction, and a number of practical strategies for the teaching of spelling.

MATHS: Less Content More Creativity (P-10) – Robin Proffit-White

Delivering resources is no guarantee students are learning maths. Involve yourself in the right pedagogies and right

activities that unleash curriculum intent and make more mathematics more enjoyable and accessible for both

students and teachers.

How to give Effective Feedback on Drafts (P-12) - Sean Loriaux

Practical strategies to encourage higher-order thinking through the drafting process in all subject areas in Primary

and Secondary.

Literacy outside of the English classroom (7-10) – Sasha McDonald

This session aims to offer attendees a range of practical strategies, lesson segments, and scaffolding tools to incorporate into the Junior Secondary classroom in order to target and enhance the literacy capabilities of students. With a clear focus on building students’ literacy capacity in the Australian Curriculum standards and descriptors, it has become increasingly important to embed a range of skills and drills into everyday practice that enables a wide range of students to engage with the content. Some of these activities are designed to support the engagement of students with lower literacy skills, enabling them to remain engaged in a subject that relies heavily on reading and writing abilities. At the other end of the achievement gap, this presentation will also explain how to use certain activities to further extend students in the Upper Bands of the class, challenging them to improve the quality of their written responses, and read more difficult texts.

Resilience in the Classroom (7-10)

This workshop will explore the delivery of wellbeing education through a range of practical strategies with a

particular focus on the use of circle time in the classroom to build resilience and social and emotional wellbeing in

young people.

Session 4: 3.00 – 4.15pm

How do you make sure thinking is visible in the classroom? (P-6) - Therese Abberfield

As a teacher we have so many tasks to do in such a short time. Plus we have the added pressure of making sure we

have the students ready to complete their assessment. We sometimes can get lost in just getting the content done.

But are we creating critical, logical thinkers? Or are we doing the thinking for them?

As teachers we know it is important to teach thinking but how do we do it without having another add on to an

already packed curriculum? Where do we start in our own professional journey on understanding how to teach or

implement a thinking classroom? As there is so much information out there.

Are my students engaged in the classroom? (P-12) – Michelle Cubis

This workshop will define engagement in the classroom by looking at the key components to student engagement

and will provide practical strategies for improving motivation and in turn, outcomes for your students. Through a

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Registration Closes Friday April 21, 2017. Register for Spirit of Learning by visiting https://www.ivvy.com/event/BETA17/

Speak to your Leadership Team or Supervisor to discuss financial support from your school to attend.

Registration fee of $450 includes full conference program and twin share accommodation at the Hilton Hotel on Saturday 30th April.

Note: In the event of the Hilton Hotel reaching capacity, delegates’ accommodation will be arranged for a nearby hotel

thorough analysis of student engagement, participants will be able to readily identify levels of engagement in their

classrooms and develop a bank of strategies to cater for individual learning needs.

Activating Comprehension in Reading (P-6) - Amanda Wicks

Explore a range of targeted strategies to develop students’ reading and comprehension skills. Participants will

explore QAR and practical strategies to improve students’ reading success.

MATHS: adding rigour to Numeracy, STEM Literacy, Gifted and Talented (7-12) - Rob Proffit-White

What questions do I need to ask to promote numeracy? . What is numeracy and what is STEM Literacy? What makes

a problem authentic and contextualised as opposed to contrived? An insightful presentation into understanding the

what, why and how of these school agendas.

Getting Started with Differentiation (7-12) - Sasha McDonald

Do you want to learn how to personalise your teaching to meet the needs of all your students, but aren't sure where

to start? This session aims to present a variety of practical tools and strategies to use within lessons that will support

the students that need help, whilst challenging others at the same time. Our students aren't a homogeneous group

of learners, so why would we provide them all with the same work? Differentiation is a process of targeted teaching

that involves forward planning, in order to give your students the best opportunity to learn. We will discuss how to

use a range of data to group students into 3 tiers of capability, and then differentiate the content, process or

product to help them achieve success in your classroom.

A-Z of Senior Schooling (10-12) - Mitch Fallon

This session will take a look at all the complexities of teaching in the senior school. From R3 to R6, monitoring to verification and from QCS to QCAA, you will walk away from this session with a better understanding of what is required when teaching senior classes.

Coding and Robotics 101 (P-10) - Luke Fallon

Do you want a hands-on opportunity to learn and create with coding and robotics? This session will introduce you to

the basics of coding and then give you the chance to put your newfound skills to the test with various types of

robotics. No prior experience required

Sunday1stMay8.30–11.30am

Keynote: Teaching Has a Great Future - Tony Ryan Teaching can be the most exciting profession on the planet. It gives you the opportunity to improve young lives every day. The dilemma is that this profession can also be the most exhausting, and will easily drain your physical and mental energy every single day.

This provocative session will explore why teaching has a great future for you … although you might need to prepare for some dramatic changes to make the most of it. That preparation will include looking after your own energy and spirit; and challenging your own thinking to respond to the astonishing world of the near-future

Conference Breakfast, Ideas Expo and Classrooms in the Spotlight

BETA Beginning and Establishing Teachers' Association

This year will see both BETA and QELi partnering to ensure that early career educational leaders are supported and equipped with the right skills on their leadership journey. The Spirit of Learning QELi Leadership Workshops are targeted at early career teachers (2-5 years) who have demonstrated capacity as a teacher leader and are looking to further their leadership skills. The three workshops will provide participants with the necessary skills to assist them on their ongoing leadership journey. Successful applicants will attend BETA’s Spirit of Learning Conference, participating in the two keynote presentations, exclusive QELi Leadership Workshops as well as various networking opportunities. Applications will be reviewed by the BETA Committee in partnerships with QELi Representatives.

LEADERSHIP NOMINATION FORM Applicant’s Details

Name

Current Position

School

E-Mail

Telephone

I understand that if I am selected for this program then I will be expected to attend the QELi strand of workshops offered at the Spirit of Learning Conference on Saturday 29th/30th April.

Signed: Date:

Written Response (see overleaf) In a maximum of one A4 page (size 10 font), explain how you are currently a teacher leader in your school. Supervisor’s Endorsement – Please sign and date

Supervisor’s name and position: Email: Phone:

As the QELi Leadership strand of the Spirit of Learning Conference will undoubtedly be significantly over-subscribed and many applicants will not be able to be placed into the sessions, we need to be sure that we maximise the impact of the program by ensuring the best possible applicants are selected. Can you please affirm that:

¨ The applicant has outstanding leadership potential and/or demonstrated capacity.

¨ Their explanation of their current role as teacher leader is a true account. Principal or Delegated Nominee Endorsement – Please sign and date Name Signature Date

Completed applications (with required attachments) to be emailed to Mitch Fallon at vicepresident@beta.asm.au by COB Friday 31st March

Late applications will not be accepted.

In a maximum of one A4 page (size 10 font), explain how you are currently a teacher leader in your school.

BETA & QELi Spirit of Learning Application Process

Complete and submit application by 31st

March

Applications reviewed by BETA Committee

and QELi Representatives

Successful applicants will be notified and directed to register

for Spirit of Learning Conference.

(Registration cost apply)

Unsuccessful applicants will be notified and are encouraged to

register for regular Spirit of Learning

conference (Registration cost

apply)

Attend two (2) keynote presentations

& QELi Leadership Workshops

Attend two (2) keynote presentations & regular workshops

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