Wangaratta Beginning and Returning Teachers Meeting Details

Sorry this information is only just getting to you but I have only just recieved the email from Wayne Anderson. I would love to hear some feedback on how useful this session was. Thanks. Deatils are below.

Date: Wednesday 19th August 2009

Venue: Martini’s, Murphy St., Wangaratta

Time: 5:30 – 7:00pm

Topic: Thinking Skills

Presenter: Linda Anania

Cost: Nil

Refreshments: Finger food and a warm drink provided

The top 10 ways kids learn (according to kids)!

Sandhurst Catholic Education Office teachers have researched and collected information on this subject. See if your teaching involves these things.

1. Make lessons interesting
2. Listen to students
3. Be in a good mood
4. Always give help
5. Make lessons fun
6. Be friendly
7. Give positive feedback
8. Believe in students
9. Vary lessons strategies
10. Understand students as individuals

Haim Ginot 1975

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am

the decisive element in the class.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess the tremendous power to

make a child's life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.
In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will
be escalated or de-escalated, a child humanised or de-humanised."