Professional Learning at the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership – October

Cooperative Learning for Mathematics
With separate intakes tailored to primary and secondary mathematics teachers and school leaders, this 2-day workshop will develop participant’s pedagogical skills in teaching mathematics and enhance student wellbeing and engagement with practical cooperative learning structures.

Find out more on the Cooperative Learning for Mathematics web page.

Leading Deep Learning
Explore the practical strategies and leadership practices needed to engage today’s students in a changing world.
Leading Deep Learning equips participants with a better understanding of the complex changes impacting learning in schools and the world through purposefully designed interactive and practical principles by Joanne Quinn, Global Director and co-founder of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning.

For more information and to register visit the Leading Deep Learning web page.

Cooperative Meetings
Learn tried and tested cooperative meeting structures to create powerful, effective meetings to bring out the best in all school meeting scenarios.

Cooperative Meetings will focus on collaborative reflection, goal setting and decision making for school improvement in a way that fosters engagement and enhance wellbeing.

For more information and to register visit the Cooperative Meetings web page.

Navigating Conflict
Navigating Conflict focuses on the mechanisms at play in difficult situations and provides opportunities to explore personal experiences, as well as learn and practice behaviours, that support positive outcomes.

Over 1 day, school leaders will explore common responses to conflict, how to manage challenging responses and strategies to avoid conflict escalation.

For more information and to apply visit the Navigating Conflict webpage.

Leadership Coaching
Receive 8 months of on-demand professional coaching to enhance leadership capability of principals and assistant principals.

On-demand professional coaching to enhance leadership capability for principals and assistant principals. Leadership Coaching challenges and supports participants to be highly effective leaders with practical support from experience coaches.

For more information and to apply visit the Leadership Coaching web page.

Assistant Principal Mentoring
Over 6 months participants will have access to 8 hours of mentoring.

Tapping into the experience of highly-skilled, retired principal mentors, participants will enhance their leadership by leveraging the experiences of their mentor to articulate how to tackle problems of practice and advance school objectives.

Mentoring sessions are flexible and delivered to suit participants’ needs.
For more information and to register visit the Assistant Principal Mentoring web page.