Teachers: Reach Out! regional workshops

A State Library educator will come to your professional learning day and present a workshop exploring our learning resources based on NSW syllabus for the Australian curriculum. 

In this workshop teachers will learn how to access:

• eResources and ebooks, 
• stage 1 – 6 learning activities for the NSW syllabi for the Australian Curriculum,
• social media including  Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram, 
• subject research guides, 
• Library catalogues,
• TROVE,
• original materials and artefacts 
• digital collections.

The course may be tailored to meet the needs of a particular group (e.g. Primary or Secondary teachers) or to be subject specific (e.g. focus on History or English resources). 

Terms and conditions:

• A minimum of 10 schools to be represented at the workshop.
• Individual whole school staff professional development is NOT the intention of the program and will not be provided by the State Library of NSW.
• The train the trainer model is employed with teachers from individual schools returning to their schools to in-service other staff. 
• The school acting as host of the workshop is to publicise the event to government and non-government schools in their local network.
• Host school is responsible for all IT and room setup, communications with participants, logistics and reasonable hosting expectations.
• Host school to provide SLNSW staff with access to laptop/computer/data projector/IWB/ and good internet access.
• Participants should be encouraged to bring their own digital device – laptop/tablet etc.
• The State Library of NSW will provide a qualified teacher to present the course and will cover all travel and accommodation costs.