Professional development 2002
ACER offers a suite of professional development options for teachers, psychologists, parents, human resource professionals, researchers and policy makers.
Options for 2002 include:
• Selection from a generic calendar of professional development activities presented Australia-wide;
• Individual design of sessions for small or large groups;
• Customised series of sessions for schools or regions;
• Interactive workshops;
• Topic specific conferences; and
• Delivery in your workplace or at convenient locations throughout Australia.
ACER invites you to discuss the possibilities of professional development designed specifically to meet your needs. Contact Kerry-Anne Hoad, Manager, Professional Development Unit, telephone (03) 9277 5402; fax (03) 9560 4799; email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
A sample of topics and presenters for 2002:
EDUCATION
Bullying – A whole school approach
Aim: to provide new insights into bullying behaviour and offer easy-to-implement procedures and strategies to handle the complex nature of school bullying.
Presenters: Amelia Suckling and Carla Temple
Assessment Tools for the Primary Years
Aim: to introduce a range of assessment tools with guidance
on use and interpretation of data.
Presenters: John King and Barbara Smith
Numeracy in the Early Years & Numeracy in the Middle Years
Aim: Practical activities and instructional games which focus on the development of thinking processes and the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Presenter: George Booker
Literacy ‘Sight words made simple’
Aim: to provide accelerated learning techniques to rapidly improve reading, increase fluency and develop comprehension through the explicit teaching of the magic 100 words.
Presenter: Marcella Reiter
Social skills and behaviour guidance ‘Stop, Think, Do’
Aim: provide strategies to support social skill training in children, behaviour guidance and motivating children’s learning.
Presenter: Lindy Petersen
PSYCHOLOGY/SOCIAL WELFARE
Safe Anger Release & Proactive Counselling for Children and Adolescents
Aim: to provide practical ways for dealing with anger, frustration and acting out behaviour of children and adolescents. Exploring the tools of drawing, bioenergetics, emotional release exercises and relaxation.
Presenters: Mark Pearson and Helen Wilson
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator courses: Qualifying Programs;
Step II: MBTI & Careers counselling; MBTI & Team building.
Aim: to identify Type preferences and explore how we prefer to use energy in life and work and how we like to interact with our environment in terms of space, time and deadlines.
Presenters: Peter Geyer and Jo Fleischer
HUMAN RESOURCES
Test Administration Course
Aim: to cover basic ethics in testing, introduction to psychometric tests, test administration practises, scoring tests, and test administration process, structure and rationale.
Presenter: Marian Power
PARENT EDUCATION
Raising Real People
Aim: to address some of the difficulties and dilemmas of parenting children and adolescents.
Presenter: Andrew Fuller
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