ClassCover online PD.

Hello everyone!

Setting Your Students Up For Success is an online course based loosely on concepts from my successful Literacy Games PD workshop for CRTs.  This one focuses more on the core concepts of hands-on learning and how to use them to engage, motivate and educate your students!

• Common reasons for disengagement from Literacy.
• The relationship between engagement and behaviour management.
• Engaging and hands-on resources to support writing skills.
• Hands on and visual learning in english language word structure.
• Hands-on and visual strategies for prompting during writing tasks

This PD is not only to help us inderstand hands-on literacy in our classrooms but also how to understand how to pick engaging and effective resources and activities for our CRT "bag of tricks".

Venue:  Online Delivery (through OpenLearning.com).
Date:  Now available and "always on"!
Host Company:  ClassCover's Relief Teacher Association.
Cost:  $20.00 (AUD)
Duration:  1.5 hours (+time spent in collegial activities)

• Approx 40 minutes of presenter delivered video.
• Approx 10 minutes of additional video from other sources.
• Approx 40 minutes of activities.

Collaboration is part of the intentions of this course and is not included in the duration!  Please remember to add the appropriate time to your submission to VIT for registration renewal.  We'd also add that the collaborative nature of these PD is an excellent way to reinforce and expand on the learning provided!

All proceeds we get from the creation of this course and ongoing payments are going directly into funding CRT Network activities (Wodonga and Shepparton).  Accessing this course is not only helping you in your classrooms, it is also supporting your CRT colleagues in regional Victoria!

Go To This Course On OpenLearning.com.

Other courses now available through ClassCover's Relief Teacher Association:

Most other other courses are $20.00 AU for an average of 1.5 hours per course, the Effective Use of Interactive Whiteboards is a free offering for you to try out the quality of these PD workshops before you buy!

Effective Use of Interactive Whiteboards 

with Susan Burke from Interactivelessons.com.au (free).

As educators, we know that technology engages students, and student engagement needs to be our top priority. Most classrooms are equipped with an interactive white board and this course will give you lots of fantastic, simple ways to use the IWB without any preparation.

Behaviour Management for Relief Teachers 
with Bob Brandis from Reliefteaching.com ($20 AUD)

Managing student behaviour in the classroom is essential for all teachers. Student behaviour is the determining factor of learning success and sometimes your teacher sanity. Misbehaviour is a toxic element in the classroom but dealing with misbehaviour incorrectly increases the toxicity.
Not only does misbehaviour add an abrasive tone to your rapport with all students it creates a destructive element for future success.
You need a repertoire of behaviour management strategies to call upon to handle the myriad of classroom situations with which you deal.
At the end of this course, Behaviour Management for Relief Teachers, you will have better options, more effective strategies and more competent skills to handle disruptive students in your classrooms.

Return to teaching and the education world 
with Anna Bennett, a highly regarded leader in the educational field ($20 AUD).

Our understanding about how students learn has greatly evolved even in the last 10 years. The major shift is from more about the learning and less about the teaching. We no longer ask ourselves what are we going to teach but more what are the students going to learn and how best can we achieve this. 

This course will develop a greater understanding about;
1.    The need for greater clarity around the learning
2.    The power of formative assessment in the learning process
3.    The need to differentiate and personalise the learning 

 
Autism Awareness Pt 1 
with Karina Barley who is an internationally recognised educational consultant ($20 AUD).

It is vitally important to be aware what it is like for the student who has Autism to have a Relief teacher come into their room. Students on the Spectrum prefer structure and routine and any change will cause them to feel anxious, frustrated and even angry. 

Your role as the Relief teacher is to make life more manageable, and provide strategies that will assist those students on the Autism Spectrum to negotiate the change in their day and help them to as quickly as possible to feel comfortable with you.
 
This course, designed with the Relief Teacher in mind and will help you to:

• Understand autism and why having a CRT in their classroom will cause them anxiety.
• Have some awareness of sensory issues
• To understand learning styles for clients with autism.
• Develop strategies for the classroom.

The feedback on these courses has so far been very positive!  Here's a random assortment of comments from various courses:

'Thank you. I have really enjoyed this course. Can't wait to do the next one.'

'I have sincerely enjoyed this course and cannot wait to try out the many things i have learnt today. I will no longer be nervous about what to do if i don't have enough time to prepare for a class on the previous day. '

'Thank you, very great ideas to make effective, interesting and interactive lessons.'

'Great activities that are easy to set up and fun for the students. I'll definitely be using these.'

'Fantastic yet simple ideas to use on casual days!! I have to admit I am excited to try these out'

Regards,

Mel.