Professional Development
2011 Workshops
Term 1, 2011:
Saturday 5th March - Trails and Tails at the Botanic Gardens
Term 2 -From Little Hands, Big Things Grow
Don't miss this one, the venue, Kilkenny Primary School is definitely worth seeing, not only does it have a fantastic garden, outdoor classroom and 'scrub', it also has a magnificent kitchen where several groups of children can work at once!
Term 3 -Creative Outdoor Environments to engage, inspire and excite young learners
Toni and Robin Christie (New Zealand Presenters) will show some of the work they have been doing in New Zealand in creating outdoor learning environments.
2011 Workshop information
Term 1, 2011
Saturday 5th March - Trails and Tails at the Botanic Gardens
Contacts
| Name | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Trent Hill | 0416847754 | hill.trent@virginbroadband.com.au |
| MichaelMills | 0411287381 | michael@heapsgood.com.au |
| Kristen Messenger | 0407317757 | Kris@bugsnslugs.com.au |
| Serena Williams | serena.williams@sa.gov.au |
Botanic Gardens of Adelaide -GardenGuides
http://www.fbga.asn.au/garden_guides.html
EChO professional development funding
EChO in conjunction with CEASA funding has sponsored two highly successful country conferences. Marilyn attended and presented workshops at both the Mt. Gambier and Renmark conference. My presentations are aimed at Early Years educators 0-8 and challenge practitioners to evaluate their practice and ensure that their environments match their pedagogical beliefs and views of the child. I encourage educators to take risks and challenge the ‘sacred cows’ that prevail in early years education. At both conferences I received much positive feedback. However, more importantly EChO and CEASA helped these country regions to stage highly innovative and exciting conferences in the local area and these regions have expressed their gratitude.
Attending these conferences also allowed us the opportunity to network with early years educators from all sectors – Family Day Care, TAFE, Preschool, Child Care and J.P. staff. I think this networking is critical to our role in providing relevant professional development to these sectors. It also allowed me to listen to educators from overseas, interstate and intrastate and make judgments about possible speakers for future conferences. I strongly recommend that we continue to support these conferences as well as attend them in order to continue this important networking./p>
The New Zealand speakers (Toni and Robin Christie) at the Mt. Gambier conference were outstanding and shared some wonderful work they have done in developing outdoor learning areas. I am keen to invite them to speak at an EChO Conference next year along with Laura Rodriguez and Catherine Hunt from DECS Licensing in head office. They ran a workshop on ‘what is possible’ which received very positive feedback.
Kindergarten Rendlesham Kindergarten
- Download I Spy, I Think, I Wonder [with images]- PDF (2.54Mb)
- Download I Spy, I Think, I Wonder [text only]- PDF (456KB)
workshop sample 2007 - 2009
Dr Louise Porter
Valuing children and guiding children's behaviour. Dr Porter is a renowned child psychologist and author. This keynote will focus upon ‘What are our beliefs about children’s behaviour and what does that imply?
Little Picasso’
‘Little Picasso’ Janine Boyd. Inspirational ideas for the classroom art program.
Back by popular demand
Star gold Puppets
Luci Simmons & William Kyte - Stargold Puppets - Puppetry and table plays for young children. http://www.playfull.on.net
To make believe and back
Dave Brown of the Patchwork theatre uses themes of creativity, theatre and the child. - www.patchtheatre.org.au
Reggio Emilia Approach - The whole world smells
Reggio Emilia Approach - The whole world smells - Learning when, curiosity, exploration and collaboration leads to in-depth meaning.
Visit Wooranna Parks Primary School
Visit Wooranna Parks Primary School, web site to learn more about their schools amazing journey -www.woorannaparkps.vic.edu.au
visit their newly launched Raison D’etre web site for more information about Wooranna Park Primary Schools transformation visit Mary Featherston’s web site - www.featherston.com.au
Connecting to the Millennium Generation
Connecting to the Millennium Generation Dr Trudy Sweeney (Flinders University)
Reading Aloud - The What, The Why, The When
Reading Aloud - The What, The Why, The When, The How Guest speaker Mem Fox - www.memfox.com
Guiding Children's Behaviour
Guiding Children's Behaviour Facilitated by Dr Louise Porter www.louiseporter.com.au
Meeting Children's Social, emotional and behavioural needs
Meeting Children's Social, emotional and behavioural needs Presented by Dr Louise Porter - www.louiseporter.com.au