Workshops
Workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue, or debate – all involving substantial interaction with the audience. [45 min. each]
Meaningful Teaching and Learning through Creativity and Reflective Practice: Exploring STEAM through the Arts leads towards an authentic approach to learning
Workshop Presentation Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen, Kathryn McLachlan
The Australian Curriculum acknowledges the place of inquiry learning and this is emphasised in the new Digital Technologies and Arts Curriculum. Our research has identified that many pre-service and classroom teachers do not possess the skills, knowledge and capacities to effectively teach the outcomes outlined in the Australian Curriculum. This workshop focuses on developing critical and creative thinking skills by uses new and old technologies. Beginning with material exploration supported by a variety of theoretically based reflective approaches to learning. Collaborative creativity is experienced initially through two-dimensional material explorations and then elaborated through an inventive process using third-dimensional materials designed to enhance teachers’ confidence while exposing them to a deeper understanding of the five levels of creativity.
A Surprisingly Useful Tool for School Improvement Planning: Using Well-being as a Framework for School Growth and Development
Workshop Presentation Jennifer Moore
This workshop is focused on a planning process and framework that could dramatically improve the quality of life that members of the school community experience each day. Participants leave with tools to take back and apply to positively frame their work, shifting how schooling looks in their communities. The content of this workshop is social justice in action. Workshop participants will experience a planning process that they can bring back to their school communities to enhance staff and student well-being. Participants will begin by reflecting on their own well-being and learn about the well-being wheel. They will engage in an appreciative inquiry, reflecting on the current state of well-being in their school community and using that information to plan how they could enhance what is already in place. Participants will then identify indicators of success for the well-being of their community and measurement tools to help them track growth. In conclusion, workshop participants will reflect on the way the well-being wheel framework can provide a guiding framework for the work of schooling.
