Mana Education Centre - providing professional development and resources for educators and the community for over 20 years

Courses - Primary

Arts

Construction
Using everyday materials we will create some fantastic sculptural art.
Date: Monday 19 August 2013
Facilitator: Stephanie Woodman

Printing Techniques
Printmaking is a great way to create easy and really effective art where everyone can achieve results.
Date: Monday 19 August 2013
Facilitator: Stephanie Woodman

Creative Kiwi Christmas Craft Ideas
Celebrate Christmas in you centre or school Kiwi style. With a range of original stories, related crafts, science, maths and literacy ideas that all relate back to the fun summery Christmases we love, this course is a perfect way to inject some new energy into your Christmas craft programme.
Date: Monday 2 December 2013
Facilitator: Rachel Goodchild

I can Play the Ukulele Basics, what next? intermediate ukulele skills
Are you ready for the next step in playing the ukulele? We will use contemporary songs to demonstrate new skills and combine these skills in a single set piece.
Date: Saturday 22 June 2013
Facilitator: Avon Hansen-Beadle

Ukulele for End of Year Christmas Performance: 12 easy arrangements in one session
Here is a simple course to get you started for Christmas / End of year performances. Season's greetings – come along with your ukulele and have some fun!
Date: Thursday 31 October 2013
Facilitator: Avon Hansen-Beadle

Painting: techniques for creating successful works
Painting is a fantastically expressive medium with oodles of potential! Learn the ins and outs of painting with fantastic results every time.
Date: Monday 20 May 2013
Facilitator: Stephanie Woodman

Drawing for Beginners - anyone can do it!
This half-day course will cover working with children and approaches to using different materials and techniques to stimulate ideas in drawing.
Date: Monday 20 May 2013
Facilitator: Stephanie Woodman

Behaviour Management

Little Volcanoes - understanding and dealing with young children's anger
A workshop for professionals working with young children addressing their frustration, communication and anger issues. Based around the popular book of the same name co-authored by Warwick Pudney.
Date: Monday 17 June 2013
Facilitator: Warwick Pudney

Behaviour for Beginners
Dealing with challenging behaviour can seem overwhelming and difficult. But if you break it down into five easy steps, even the most difficult problems can be resolved.
Date: Thursday 4 July 2013
Facilitator: Frances Steinberg

The Art of Transforming Behaviour - from terrifying to terrific
This course promotes the creative technique of Case Mapping, developed by Frances Steinberg, which allows participants to identify the presenting and underlying issues that create challenging behaviour and then generate heaps of effective solutions for resolving them.
Date: Friday 9 August 2013
Facilitator: Frances Steinberg

Restorative Practices in Schools: Conference Facilitation Training (3 days)
This highly practical 3 day , interactive workshop will allow participants to review current practices, explore notions of compliance, justice and fairness and participate in practice conferences, as well as using the philosophy and practice for less serious incidents in classrooms, corridors and playgrounds. Implementation issues will be discussed, as this represents a major shift in thinking around disciplinary policy and practice.
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2013
Facilitator: Margaret Thorsborne

Teacher Aides: managing challenging behaviour
Learn strategies to increase teacher aides' confidence in dealing with challenging student behaviours.
Date: Monday 8 July 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney

Cross Curricular

SPARACT: self-belief, planning, age appropriate, rewards, applications, transfer, contracts
We need to engage learners in their own learning through a variety of carefully thought out strategies, structures and behaviours. Many of these are not radical. Some, you will already be doing at least in part. All are simple yet effective. This fascinating presentation will explore seven factors related to student success. The model, known as SPARACT will reveal simple changes that we can make to ensure that students play a more engaged role in their own learning.
Date: Wednesday 12 June 2013
Facilitator: Mike Scadden

It's not about 'lifting the tail' but about lifting our heads
Current practice is to endeavour to increase levels in literacy, numeracy and writing by spending more time on these areas. While repetition is important for the brain to develop, one key is still missing…
Date: Wednesday 12 June 2013
Facilitator: Mike Scadden

Boys in Schools
"Most boys are doing well at school. At the same time, a significant number are disengaged or not achieving to their potential." The Boys in Schools workshop will provide teachers with tips to engage boys and allow them to be successful in their learning.
Date: Tuesday 18 June 2013
Facilitator: Warwick Pudney

Planning Learning Experiences for Deep Understanding using SOLO
Pam Hook shares her classroom-based approach to SOLO Taxonomy as a framework for planning rich activities for deep understanding.
Date: Thursday 27 June 2013
Facilitator: Pam Hook

Promoting Student Self Management
This workshop will show you how to teach and foster student self management. The workshop draws on Glasser's Choice Theory and will offer powerful and practical tools to help you teach students to take charge of their attitudes and behaviour.
Date: Monday 5 August 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney

Putting the 'e' in Assessment
We are charged with making and moderating OTJs in Numeracy and Literacy. How might we best utilise the technologies of today to assist us in capturing evidence of student progress and achievement within our Formative Assessment practices?
Date: Friday 16 August 2013
Facilitator: Mary-Anne Murphy

Learning to Learn through Inquiry with Kath Murdoch
In this workshop – we will take a close look at how to use contemporary, integrative inquiry to build robust and transferable skills and understandings in the primary years. The workshop will, in particular, show the ways in which inquiry approaches can help students harness and use the key competencies as they go about investigating significant questions, issues and projects.
Date: Friday 25 October 2013
Facilitator: Kath Murdoch

Questioning: surfing or scuba diving?
Are your students surfing the waves of information and admiring the view only from the surface; or are they taking the plunge, and discovering what lies beneath? This interactive, half-day workshop will share some practical strategies that encourage students to start to 'scuba-dive' with their questioning.
Date: Tuesday 5 November 2013
Facilitator: Mary-Anne Murphy

Developing 21st Century Thinkers
One if the Key Competencies within the NZC is "Thinking". This course will explore how we might facilitate our learners to develop their ability to think on different levels and in different ways.
Date: Tuesday 5 November 2013
Facilitator: Mary-Anne Murphy

Assessment for Learning: programme of three workshops over three terms
Mana Education Centre and Evaluation Associates present a series of three workshops which will take participants through the key principles of assessment for learning, providing an overview of the student and teacher capabilities outlined in Clarity in the Classroom (Michael Absolum, 2006 - available from LearnZone at Mana Education Centre).
Date: Friday 31 May 2013
Facilitator: Barbara-Anne Alexand

Introduction to Basic Brain Gym Movements
Brain Gym®, used regularly in the classroom, assists all children to improve their fundamental abilities including focus, organisation, comprehension, physical coordination, social and communication skills, memory, attentiveness and more. Learn the basic movements of Brain Gym and the benefits to be gained by for ALL students.
Date: Friday 24 May 2013
Facilitator: Barbara Wards

Understanding Handedness/Dominance in the Classroom - AFTER SCHOOL SESSION
Discover what handedness/footedness/dominance means in your classroom, for you as a teacher and for your students as learners. Twilight session - bring the whole team.
Date: Wednesday 3 July 2013
Facilitator: Barbara Wards

Getting Ready for School: activities to develop foundational skills
Preparing for school is not just about the ABCs and 123s. This workshop offers strategies for developing children's pre-academic skill suites.
Date: Thursday 5 September 2013
Facilitator: Ellie Davidson

Learning Stories through a Movement Lens
This workshop explores ways to incorporate your movement curriculum through the stories and engage families in movement learning and development.
Date: Thursday 5 September 2013
Facilitator: Ellie Davidson

Movement to Music
Understanding the value of music and movement for preschoolers, a practical tutorial on song selection, “moveography,” games and activities, with a list of recommended resources available.
Date: Friday 1 November 2013
Facilitator: Ellie Davidson

Learning as Inquiry: developing inquiring minds
This course will explore the concept of “Learning as Inquiry”. It will look at ways in which we can flip and enrich learning opportunities to encourage the development of inquiring minds.
Date: Wednesday 3 April 2013
Facilitator: Mary-Anne Murphy

Teaching as Inquiry
The workshop will involve challenging teachers thinking in ways that promote their own learning for the benefit of raising student achievement. This is an interactive workshop.
Date: Friday 5 April 2013
Facilitator: Helen Walters

Teaching as Inquiry through SOLO Taxonomy
What am I learning? How is it going? What do I do next? – Sound familiar?
Date: Friday 12 April 2013
Facilitator: Pam Hook

e-learning

Blogging for Beginners
The session will focus on providing an introduction to blogs by showing how to use a range of common free blogging platforms and set yourself up to access 100s of blogs using a feed reader.
Date: Thursday 30 May 2013
Facilitator: Tara Fagan

Working with Digital Technology to Enhance Inquiry Learning
With technologies such as mobile devices, the social web and global networks, it has never been easier for students to explore concepts and inquiries in ways that are engaging, meaningful and personalised.
Date: Tuesday 25 June 2013
Facilitator: Karen Melhuish-Spenc

Capturing Student Voice
With technologies such as mobile devices, the social web and global networks, it has never been easier for students to explore concepts and inquiries in ways that are engaging, meaningful and personalised.
Date: Tuesday 25 June 2013
Facilitator: Chrissie Butler

Social Networking for Educators
In a world of global networking, 'like' buttons and tweets, the information noise can sometimes feel overwhelming. And yet, these networks now offer us flexible, powerful ways to personalise our learning in ways not imaginable a few years ago.
Date: Thursday 22 August 2013
Facilitator: Karen Melhuish-Spenc

iPad Apps to Support Special Needs Students
iPads and tablets are in homes and schools. The box doesn't come with a book of instructions, although it does come with a lot of new jargon. iPads can be an effective tool for students with special needs.
Date: Thursday 12 September 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

Digital Storytelling 101
Learn how digital storytelling has transformed families, communities and learning and how you can do this in your own teaching context.
Date: Thursday 11 April 2013
Facilitator: Tania Coutts

e-Portfolios
Learn how digital storytelling has transformed families, communities and learning and how you can do this in your own teaching context.
Date: Thursday 11 April 2013
Facilitator: Tania Coutts

First Aid

Revalidation First Aid July
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Monday 15 July 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Comprehensive First Aid July - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Tuesday 16 July 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Revalidation First Aid August
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Saturday 24 August 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Comprehensive First Aid August - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Friday 30 August 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Revalidation First Aid October
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Wednesday 9 October 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Comprehensive First Aid October - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Thursday 10 October 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Revalidation First Aid November
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Saturday 30 November 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Comprehensive First Aid December - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Friday 6 December 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Revalidation First Aid April
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Monday 22 April 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Comprehensive First Aid April - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Tuesday 23 April 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Revalidation First Aid January
This six hour CFA (comprehensive first aid) Revalidation course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements.
Date: Saturday 26 January 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Comprehensive First Aid January - Two-Day Workshop
This certified 2-day course meets the Department of Labour's "First Aid for Workplaces - A Good Practice Guide (September 2009)" and all NZQA First Aid training requirements. It teaches you how to manage an emergency scene and how to cope with most first aid emergencies.
Date: Monday 28 January 2013
Facilitator: New Zealand Red Cros

Health and Physical Education

Languages

Leadership

Principals' Professional Network Term 2
This programme encourages principals to commit a small amount of time to looking after their own needs by stepping back from the intensity and immediacy of running a school and spending quality time with fellow principals. The programme will involve 3 x ½ day facilitated collegial forums (one per term T2-T4).
Date: Thursday 27 June 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney

The Leading Edge - Leadership Development Programme 2013
An innovative programme based on a highly effective leadership development model designed by Impact Education and used in schools and other organisations. If you have high expectations of yourself and your potential as an educational leader then this programme may be the best personal commitment you have ever made. The programme is made up of 4 one-day modules and one personal 1:1 coaching session.
Date: Tuesday 2 July 2013
Facilitator: Impact Education

Leading for Innovation with Simon Breakspear 18 Feb 2013
Register here for Simon's workshop on 18 February 2013. Learning in New Zealand reimagined, redesigned and reinvented. Simon Breakspear presents … Leading for Innovation: how to generate and harness creative solutions in order to re-imagine schooling and radically improve student learning.
Date: Monday 18 February 2013
Facilitator: Simon Breakspear

Leading for Innovation with Simon Breakspear 19 Feb 2013
Register here for Simon's workshop on 19 February 2013. Learning in New Zealand reimagined, redesigned and reinvented. Simon Breakspear presents … Leading for Innovation: how to generate and harness creative solutions in order to re-imagine schooling and radically improve student learning.
Date: Tuesday 19 February 2013
Facilitator: Simon Breakspear

Debt Reduction and Budgeting
Mana Education Centre has an opportunity to offer this 1-hour personal development workshop from the Petone Budget Service. This session will cover how to prepare a budget, plan to payback debt and to do a cash flow forecast.
Date: Friday 22 February 2013
Facilitator: Jennifer Gini

COURSE FULL - The Leading Edge - Leadership Development Programme 2013
COURSE FULL An innovative programme based on a highly effective leadership development model designed by Impact Education and used in schools and other organisations. If you have high expectations of yourself and your potential as an educational leader then this programme may be the best personal commitment you have ever made. The programme is made up of 4 one-day modules and one personal 1:1 coaching session.
Date: Tuesday 26 March 2013
Facilitator: Impact Education

Teachers in Leadership Network - Horowhenua/Kapiti
An ongoing, valuable professional development and networking opportunity for primary and intermediate leaders and aspiring leaders in the Horowhenua/Kapiti region. The group will meet once a term through 2013.
Date: Thursday 11 April 2013
Facilitator: Angela Ryan

How to Work Less, Produce More and Still get the Job Done in a Sensible School Week
Malachi Pancoast is returning to Wellington in 2013! Don't miss your only opportunity to catch the Breakthrough Coach in NZ. What if you could trim 20 hours off your work week AND multiply your time in classrooms by 500%? This two-day workshop with the 'Breakthrough Coach', Malachi Pancoast (USA), will show you how. All school principals should register to free themselves from the administrative treadmill!
Date: Thursday 16 May 2013
Facilitator: Malachi Pancoast

Self Reviewing that Satisfies ERO
With fun in mind, this course will amuse and engage participants with stories of the successes and failures that characterise the relationships between school leaders and trustees, and schools and ERO. School reviewing and development is never a simple or straight forward process.
Date: Friday 7 June 2013
Facilitator: Bryan Gwilliam

School Wide Self Review of Special Needs
By putting into practice the overarching self review process, of preparing, gathering, making sense and deciding – we will look at self reviewing special needs in your school. We will be discussing aspects of the booklet - School Wide Self Review of Special Needs.
Date: Wednesday 26 June 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

Dealing with Difficult Behaviour and Resistance
Mark will equip participants with the knowledge and skills to deal with the defensive reactions and responses which can often be encountered during difficult conversations and performance processes.
Date: Monday 1 July 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney

Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching is now being recognised as they key strategy for developing the capability of teaching professionals. Coaching and mentoring are not loose or soft approaches - they are highly focused strategies which help you to support, strengthen or stretch others to take charge of what they need to do to be effective in their roles.
Date: Monday 26 August 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney

Managing Staff Performance
As an educational leader achieving your aims and goals depends on the performance of others. When people are performing well things tend to be straightforward but when performance problems emerge things can become very difficult.
Date: Tuesday 27 August 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney

Leading Through 2013 - we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us
The begining of the year is critical in terms of shaping expectations, focusing commitment and creating a sense of motivation and purpose for the year - however the planning for this needs to happen well in advance. Repeated by popular demand after the session in December 2012.
Date: Monday 4 March 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney

Literacy

What Comes Before Reading and Writing? Foundational skills for literacy
This training will explore the foundation skills for early literacy. Delegates will gain an overview of the range of auditory and visual skills, including memory skills, which children need to achieve in order to succeed in reading and spelling.
Date: Tuesday 28 May 2013
Facilitator: Louise Dempsey

Teaching Writing Effectively - for beginning, returning or relieving teachers
This practical workshop will support teachers to improve their effectiveness in the teaching of writing. Being an evening session means no need for release! Ideal for returning, beginning and relieving teachers.
Date: Thursday 20 June 2013
Facilitator: Jan Baynes

Literacy Support for Special Needs Students
If you are unsure which literacy activities to provide to an ORS student in your class, come along as we will look at activities to support a range of early developmental stages.
Date: Thursday 8 August 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

Effective Junior Reading Programme Years 1-3
Do you want students become avid readers, while ensuring that they comprehend deeply what they read? This workshop is for you.
Date: Wednesday 21 August 2013
Facilitator: Jan Baynes

Effective Junior Writing Programme Years 1-3
Do you want your students to become competent writers, demonstrating joy and satisfaction in their writing? This workshop is for you.
Date: Wednesday 28 August 2013
Facilitator: Jan Baynes

Teaching Struggling / Reluctant Writers
This hands-on course will examine what you need to know and do in order to effectively teach students struggling with writing within the NZ Curriculum. A great blend of building your knowledge of writing in the NZC and practical applications, it includes a school-based observation of Murray teaching a class of local students in the relevant year groups.
Date: Wednesday 6 November 2013
Facilitator: Murray Gadd

Editing and Improving Children's Writing
This after-school training session will explore models and strategies for responding to childrens' writing.
Date: Tuesday 28 May 2013
Facilitator: Louise Dempsey

Reading and Writing to Meet the Demands of the New Zealand Curriculum
Teacher only day 2013 - Wednesday 30 January. Alison Davis presents Reading and Writing to Meet the Demands of the New Zealand Curriculum. Professional learning for the whole staff!
Date: Wednesday 30 January 2013
Facilitator: Alison Davis

COURSE FULL Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies
COURSE FULL Are you concerned about students in your class who can decode but have no understanding of what they have read? Current research indicates that we should be explicitly teaching reading comprehension strategies to students.
Date: Thursday 7 March 2013
Facilitator: Sheena Cameron

Do We Still Have to Teach Reading? Developing a Reading Programme to Engage Year 5-8 Students
How do you plan a reading programme for students who can already read? Do we still need to teach reading? How do we keep students engaged and make them lifelong readers? This practical research-based workshop will provide ideas for running an effective reading programme at the upper level of primary and intermediate schools.
Date: Friday 8 March 2013
Facilitator: Sheena Cameron

Doing and Analysing Running Records to Inform your Teaching
Not sure where to begin with your class? This workshop explores routines and structures to keep the class running smoothly and children working independently. Ideal for beginning teachers, returning teachers.
Date: Thursday 14 March 2013
Facilitator: Jan Baynes

Effective Teachers of Reading in Years 0-3
This hands-on course will examine what you need to know and do in order to effectively teach reading within the NZ Curriculum. It is a great blend of building your knowledge of reading in the NZ Curriculum and practical applications. The emphasis will be on teaching students to make meaning of texts through strategic use of decoding, processing and comprehension strategies.
Date: Thursday 21 March 2013
Facilitator: Murray Gadd

Effective Teachers of Writing in Years 0-3
This hands-on course will examine what you need to know and do in order to effectively teach writing within the NZ Curriculum. It is a great blend of building your knowledge of writing in the NZC and practical applications.
Date: Friday 22 March 2013
Facilitator: Murray Gadd

Effective Remedial Help for Students with Severe Spelling Difficulties
Every class in your school irrespective of its decile ranking will contain at least two and up to five students, mainly boys, who have great difficulty in expressing themselves via the medium of the written word because they have great difficulty in spelling.
Date: Thursday 9 May 2013
Facilitator: Craig Jackson

Teaching Reading Effectively - for beginning, returning or relieving teachers
This practical workshop will support teachers to improve their effectiveness in the teaching of reading. Being an evening session means no need for release! Ideal for returning, beginning and relieving teachers.
Date: Thursday 23 May 2013
Facilitator: Jan Baynes

Effective Teachers of Reading in Years 4-6
This hands-on course will examine what you need to know and do in order to effectively teach reading within the NZ Curriculum. It is a great blend of building your knowledge of reading in the NZ Curriculum and practical applications. The emphasis will be on teaching students to make meaning of texts through strategic use of decoding, processing and comprehension strategies.
Date: Thursday 13 June 2013
Facilitator: Murray Gadd

COURSE FULL Effective Teachers of Writing in Years 4-6
SORRY, COURSE IS FULL. This hands-on course will examine what you need to know and do in order to effectively teach writing within the NZ Curriculum. It is a great blend of building your knowledge of writing in the NZC and practical applications.
Date: Friday 14 June 2013
Facilitator: Murray Gadd

Effective Teachers of Reading and Writing in Years 7-8
This hands-on course will examine what you need to know and do in order to effectively teach reading and writing within the NZ Curriculum. It will explore the links between reading and writing as they apply to classroom practice. It is a great blend of building your knowledge of reading and writing in the NZ Curriculum and practical applications. The emphasis will be on teaching students to make and create meaning through texts.
Date: Thursday 4 July 2013
Facilitator: Murray Gadd

Moderating Writing and Collecting Evidence Informing OTJs in Writing
Practical and manageable strategies for assessment and moderation of writing in the Primary classroom.
Date: Monday 2 September 2013
Facilitator: Louise Dempsey

Strengthening Guided Reading Years 0-3 - twilight session
An evening session that the whole junior team can attend together. Louise offers proven, practical and managable techniques for strengthening guided reading in the junior years.
Date: Monday 2 September 2013
Facilitator: Louise Dempsey

Teaching Handwriting: Brain Gym for fine motor control
Small Hands, Very Big Task! Do any of your children have difficulty forming letters? Are letter sizes, shapes and slopes inconsistent? Does directionality do your head in? If you answered YES to any of these questions THIS IS THE COURSE FOR YOU!!!
Date: Wednesday 4 September 2013
Facilitator: Barbara Wards

Independent Literacy Activities for Years 4-6
It is important to keep students purposely engaged in literacy activities while the teacher works with a guided reading group.
Date: Thursday 19 September 2013
Facilitator: Jan Baynes

Leading Young Writers to Authorship with Gail Loane
This is Gail's core workshop; it explores the key ideas within the book “I've Got Something to Say”. School holiday workshop means no reliever costs - bring your whole team!
Date: Thursday 10 October 2013
Facilitator: Gail Loane

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in the Primary School
This workshop explores how teachers can support children to develop both depth and breadth in their vocabulary learning. Strategies and prompts will be examined as well as ways to get students to think metacognitively about extending their vocabulary. Ways to incorporate vocabulary teaching into cross-curricular planning will be an aspect of the workshop.
Date: Thursday 16 May 2013
Facilitator: Jan Baynes

Teaching and Learning for English Language Learners in the Primary Classroom
This practical workshop will support the teaching and learning of English language learners in the Primary classroom.
Date: Thursday 23 May 2013
Facilitator: Jan Baynes

Maori

Introduction to te Reo Maori - 4 after-school sessions
Whether a total beginner or someone who wants to up-skill, this 4-session course will be useful to anyone wanting to be comfortable around the Maori language.
Date: Tuesday 11 June 2013
Facilitator: Matiu Te Huki

Understanding and Planning with Tataiako (2 days)
Where is your school in terms of understanding the Registered Teacher Criteria? Are all of your teachers familiar with, and able to demonstrate each criterion in their practice? This 2-day course discusses the major issues raised in these three documents; by the end, attendees will have practical understandings and strategies to practice the Registered Teacher Criteria.
Date: Thursday 20 June 2013
Facilitator: Lynette Bradnam

Kapa Haka for Beginners - waiata and storytelling
Brush up on your pronunciation; refresh your knowledge of Te Reo, Waiata and Tikanga in a totally non-threatening environment.
Date: Thursday 25 July 2013
Facilitator: Matiu Te Huki

Culturally Responsive Classrooms: the application of Tataiako
This course will draw on Tātaiako and support teachers to improve their practice and develop a classroom environment that is culturally responsive.
Date: Friday 6 September 2013
Facilitator: Lynette Bradnam

Guitar for Kapa Haka - beginners
This Workshop will be hands on, interactive, challenging and most of all, FUN! Bring along a guitar for a hands-on day!
Date: Friday 4 October 2013
Facilitator: Matiu Te Huki

Ka Hikitia 1: leadership to raise Maori student achievement
The umbrella course in this series, this workshop supports the Ka Hikitia goal to tautoko professional leaders to take responsibility for Maori students' presence, engagement, and achievement. This 1-day course is for school leaders in English-medium settings and will focus on your leadership capability to raise Māori student achievement.
Date: Monday 18 March 2013
Facilitator: Lynette Bradnam

Ka Hikitia 3: accelerating success
This course builds on the course, Ka Hikitia 1: Leadership to raise Māori student achievement. It has been designed to suit participants who have attended this course either in 2012 or 2013. This course will support schools to examine their success in raising Māori student achievement and how to build on this by exploring the key elements that impact positively on Māori learners and their whānau.
Date: Tuesday 19 March 2013
Facilitator: Lynette Bradnam

Ka Hikitia 2: planning for success
The school planning and reporting process places a strong emphasis on community consultation and involvement in the school and on delivery of education. This course will support schools to apply, plan and implement the goals and actions in Ka Hikitia as appropriate to your context.
Date: Thursday 28 March 2013
Facilitator: Lynette Bradnam

Mathematics

Numeracy Support for Special Needs Students
If you are unsure which numeracy activities to provide to an ORS student in your class, come along as we will look at activities to support a range of early developmental stages.
Date: Thursday 29 August 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

Rich Tasks for Engaging Maths Learners
Teachers will learn how to cross-strand and integrate maths using effective rich tasks thus providing multiple opportunities for teaching, learning and assessing.
Date: Thursday 4 April 2013
Facilitator: Helen Walters

Targeted Learning Groups in Maths
Students rated as 'below' require special teaching, modified classroom programmes and extra support to continue their development and maintain positive attitudes. This after-school workshop will show you how.
Date: Thursday 6 June 2013
Facilitator: Helen Walters

Connecting the Curriculum: problem solving, rich learning tasks
This workshop will be interactive investigating how to integrate maths to make connections to everyday life experiences that are relevant to students through rich tasks and investigations where students drive the learning and begin to take the locus of control.
Date: Thursday 6 June 2013
Facilitator: Helen Walters

Teaching Financial Literacy
Ideas from the Petone Budgeting Service for teaching 10-14 year olds the skills and strategies required to be in control of their finances and financial future. Learn sound pneumonics and frameworks for managing money – planning, saving, spending, recording.
Date: Friday 3 May 2013
Facilitator: Jennifer Gini

PRTs / Beginning Teachers / Tutor Teachers

Tutor Teachers: Knowing Your Responsibilities
Are you going to be a Tutor Teacher through 2013? Tutor teachers play an essential role in the induction of beginning teachers and ensuring they make a good start in the profession. Become familiar with your role in supporting your beginning teacher to fulfil their potential.
Date: Wednesday 27 February 2013
Facilitator: Angela Ryan

Programme for First Year Primary Provisionally Registered Teachers
The 2013 programme will support PRTs in their first year of teaching to meet the requirements of registration and provide them with opportunities to: reflect on practice; set personal goals and action plans; network and share ideas; further develop management and interpersonal skills; and improve their effectiveness in the classroom.
Date: Wednesday 6 March 2013
Facilitator: Angela Ryan

Programme for Second Year Primary Provisionally Registered Teachers
The 2013 second year programme will support PRTs to continue to meet the requirements of Registration and provide them with opportunities to: reflect on practice; set personal goals and action plans; network and share ideas; further develop management and interpersonal skills; and improve their effectiveness in the classroom.
Date: Thursday 14 March 2013
Facilitator: Angela Ryan

Registered Teacher Criteria
Recently there have been changes to teacher registration criteria that have now become a requirement for all teachers who are working to gain full registration and teachers renewing or reapplying for a practising certificate as of 2013. How familiar are you with the content and requirements of the Registered Teacher Criteria? To what extent have you implemented them into your practices and documentation? How might you do this in an effective and timely manner?
Date: Wednesday 3 April 2013
Facilitator: Mary-Anne Murphy

Science

The Nature of Science - investigations & activities for class programmes
This workshop will look at demystifying the Nature of Science strand and will use practical activities that show how the Nature of Science can be included in classroom programmes.
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2013
Facilitator: Warren Bruce

Putting Awe and Wonder Back into Primary Science
Science tends to be forgotten in many of our classrooms or is only a major focus once a year. The idea of this workshop is to provide some activities that encourage children to wonder, to ask questions, to start talking about science and developing a science vocabulary, to carry out investigations and share back what they found out.
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2013
Facilitator: Warren Bruce

Special Needs

How do I respond to that? Engaging in constructive and helpful conversations
Being in the business of helping children and adults is not always easy. At times we can find ourselves wondering how to respond to certain conversations, or confused and unclear about the situation, or leave the people we are trying to help confused and unclear. At worst there can be ethical issues that were also not addressed in the conversation and we are left holding onto the potential negative elements of this.
Date: Friday 21 June 2013
Facilitator: Ross McCracken

Transitioning for Special Needs: to school, through school
For a student with special needs transition and change can be very challenging. A planned transition can result in a success outcome for all those concerned - student, family, teacher and class peers.
Date: Thursday 14 November 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

The Role of the SENCO: Part 1 - the role
The position of SENCO in a school has expectations which are often vague or unknown. The SENCO usually develops their own job description and define their own role and responsibilities through trial and error.
Date: Thursday 28 February 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

The Role of the SENCO: Part 2 - building the knowledge base
Due to the SENCO's required range of skills and knowledge, the role of SENCO within a school is vital in supporting staff, paraprofessionals, families and students to achieve successful outcomes.
Date: Wednesday 5 June 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

Effective Classroom Teaching Inclusive of the SLD Student
The workshop will explore solutions to some common classroom issues when teaching students with specific learning difficulties.
Date: Friday 28 June 2013
Facilitator: G Moir & P Gilbert

Teachers and Teacher Aides Working with Students with SLDs
This workshop will provide information on specific learning difficulties and strategies for developing a good working relationship between the classroom teacher and teacher aide to support the SLD student.
Date: Thursday 8 August 2013
Facilitator: Glenys Moir

Achieving Effective IEPs - IEPs and the revised guidelines
The Individual Education Plan remains the cornerstone of measuring progress for students with special needs. The revised IEP guidelines are now 12 months old; it is time to discover how to effectively measure progress and achieve effective IEPs. Bring along your Collaboration for Success: Individual Education Plans and make this document work for your school.
Date: Tuesday 22 October 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

Help! How to Support Special Needs Student in your Classroom
You have a special needs student starting in your class and you are unsure where to start………
Date: Wednesday 30 October 2013
Facilitator: Anne Russell

Building Literacy Skills through Reading Comprehension
This workshop will give skills and strategies to Teachers and Teacher Aides that will be beneficial to dyslexic students and others whose access to the curriculum is hindered by literacy difficulties, for whatever reason.
Date: Thursday 7 November 2013
Facilitator: Glenys Moir

Assessments for Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties
This course is to present a variety of tests used for diagnosing Dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties, and how to understand the results when the reports are presented to the schools by the Education Psychologists or other specialists.
Date: Friday 8 November 2013
Facilitator: Paula Gilbert

Support Staff and Caretakers

Teacher Aides: tools and techniques for being effective
This one-day course will equip teacher aides with background knowledge, skills and strategies to maximise their effectiveness in their (often multiple) roles.
Date: Tuesday 20 August 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney

Caretakers Network Meetings
An opportunity for school caretakers to get together, share ideas, share their knowledge of the job, and get information on new products and services. The network meets once a term through 2013.
Date: Tuesday 5 March 2013
Facilitator: Christine Bruce

Teacher Aides: Ways of Supporting Students with Reading
This workshop will look at ways teacher aides can support the classroom teacher and assist students they work with to improve their reading and comprehension skills.
Date: Monday 8 April 2013
Facilitator: Angela Ryan

Teacher Aides: Ways of Supporting Students with Writing
This workshop will look at ways teacher aides can support the classroom teacher and assist students they work with to improve their writing skills.
Date: Thursday 9 May 2013
Facilitator: Angela Ryan

Teacher Aides: working with small groups
This interactive workshop aims to provide teacher aides with skills and strategies that can be used easily when working with small groups of students.
Date: Monday 8 July 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney