Teacher professional learning

Teachers: Reach Out! regional workshops

Duration: 2.5 hours
Around NSW
Teacher Professional Learning
Schools & Teachers

Reach out! is available for teachers in rural and regional NSW. 

Details

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.

Excursion Summary

Cost

Free