Friday 31 August

Seminar Theatre 1 - Professional Teaching Strategies

Session 1
9:15am - 10:15am

Speaker: Dr David Zyngier
Senior Lecturer in the areas of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, Monash University
Associate Professor at Southern Cross University

Classroom behaviour management: What every teacher would like to know but is afraid to ask

Session Overview
This session will interactively explore how to create a highly engaged classroom. Bring along your smart devices, a smartphone is all you need and be prepared to have your expectations challenged.

Session 2
11am - 11:45am

MANAGE YOURSELF PROFESSIONALLY ONLINE

Speaker: Adam Surmacz 
Australian Education Union

Manage yourself professionally online

Session Overview 
We live in a digital world. With this there has been an increase in legal and employment issues educators can face relating to their online conduct. Join Adam for an engaging session which will cover common issues faced by teachers and practical ways you can balance your social personal social media use with your professional responsibilities.

Session 3
1:00pm - 1:45pm

Speaker: Penny Willoughby
Australian teacher, Tutor and Educational Consultant 

Discover how to support gifted learners in your classroom and help them excel

Session Overview
As teachers we are faced with the daily challenge of catering for a large range of needs in our classrooms. But what happens to gifted students who are not reaching their potential? How do we stimulate, guide and inspire them? Furthermore, what should be our response if they develop disruptive, oppositional or passive behaviours in the classroom?

In this seminar Penny will clarify who are our gifted learners and why we need a different approach to help them excel. She will outline a range of techniques to get gifted learners out of their comfort zones and re-engaged in learning. This session will provide you with a greater understanding of gifted students’ educational needs and practical ideas to implement immediately.

Session 4
2:30pm - 4:30pm

Speaker: Jo Lange
Behaviour Specialist

Top Tips for better classroom behaviour - A practical strategy focus

Session Overview
As a behaviour specialist for over 20 years now, Jo Lange gathers together the most effective behaviour management strategies that enhance a positive and productive classroom. This program examines the “WHY’ of student behaviour and the importance of recognising the motivations of student behaviour to proactively address it. Major principles will be set out for what teachers can do to develop a positive classroom environment with a focus on the power of encouragement, rapport and relationship. It explores the importance of body language & tone, and utilising the language of positive discipline, to prevent and reduce common classroom behaviours such as negative attention-seeking and power struggles.

Friday 31 August

Stage - Technology Stream

Session 1
9:15am - 10am

Speaker: Ros Lugg
Educational Specialist in Learning Support
Qualified Dyslexia Tutor and Assessor 

Technology and literacy development - why some learners fall through the gaps and how we can use technology to prevent it happening

Session Overview
Discover how literacy develops in children with emphasis on the processing and perceptual skills needed at each stage. It will also cover recent neurological research into literacy acquisition. Analysis of this process will explain why some learners fall through the gaps and how an individualized approach can prevent this happening.

Session 2
11:00am - 11:45am

Speakers: Trent Ray 
Teacher, Microsoft Learning Consultant, Co- Founder of the Cyber Safety Project
Sam Macaulay
Primary School Teacher, Co-Founder of the Cyber Safety Project

Proactive Teaching Strategies to live, work and play safely online

Session Overview
The Cyber Safety Project is committed to a whole community, proactive approach aimed at building skills and capacity of teachers, students and parents/guardians in digital safety and wellbeing for young people. This session explores the changing landscape of the most popular social networking platforms and provides easy to implement lesson ideas that will arm teachers and students with protective measures for safe online use within the classroom. 

Session 3
1:00pm - 1:45pm

Speaker: Dr Michael Cejnar, CEO FIC Technology

Learning Analytics - How to make students ICT usage transparent

Session Overview
Australia has the world's highest use of classroom 1:1 laptops, but the nature and effectiveness of usability is not well understood. Laptop use in classrooms can make student work opaque to teachers, but on the other hand, the laptop can equally be used to effectively and in real time evaluate and display student's engagement, learning process and skills set. Such understanding of student engagement and distractibility patterns, may be a powerful tool for educators to be able to switch distracted students back to engagement, by providing them with activities and resources adapted to meet their learning styles. Discover how classroom learning analytics is shaping the future of measuring, managing and reporting students' learning and ICT skills.

Session 4
3:00pm - 3:45pm

Speaker: Christopher Ephgrave
Education and Business Manager, EE Group

Benefits of a STE@M program for your school - how it can stimulate, educate & inspire 

Session Overview 
There can be some ‘fear of the unknown’ and confusion about how to develop a STE@M program for your school. In this seminar, Chris will open your thinking and provide clarity on how to develop a STE@M program. Five areas of STE@M will be addressed; How to get staff involved; The decision of what to purchase and for what levels; Parents and the school community; Partnership with business and Building a school cluster. Discover how you can include STE@M in different areas of your curriculum.