Courses - Secondary
Arts
Behaviour Management
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Leadership
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
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
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
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
Using Literature Circles to Engage Fluent Readers
How do we keep Y9-12 students engaged and encourage them to become lifelong readers? How can we provide a balance between teacher-guided and self-directed reading? This practical research-based workshop will explore literature circles (student–led book clubs) as a way for students to apply the knowledge they have about reading and writing.
Literature circles provide a unique model of student-led learning that builds reading mileage in a meaningful and enjoyable way.
Date: Thursday 7 March 2013
Facilitator: Sheena Cameron
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
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
Support for Secondary Beginning Teachers
Teachers beginning in the Secondary system need support to ensure they make the best start possibile in the profession. This 2-day programme will ensure they carry good habits forward.
Date: Monday 15 April 2013
Facilitator: Mark Sweeney
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
