Professional Development

Professional Development is key to staying at the top of your teaching game. Be inspired with new ideas to take into the classroom and up-to-date pedagogical knowledge.

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We are not currently offering our live PD workshops for 2023. However, please get in touch with our team if you would like to discuss bespoke PD for your school or centre.

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Early Childhood

ECE: Professional Growth Cycles - Sonja Ploeg (InterLEAD)
(suitable for ECE teachers)

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ECE: Professional Growth Cycles - Sonja Ploeg (InterLEAD)

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About the webinar:

The Professional Growth Cycle (PGC) has been a requirement of all early childhood services for some time now, yet it is still something that often overwhelms and confuses centre leaders, mentors, and teachers. This workshop will help to answer some of the questions people have about the PGC:

How does the PGC fit in with internal evaluation and our strategic plan?
Why is it important? What is its purpose?
What are the elements of the PGC?
How do I set up the PGC in a way that is meaningful and helpful for the growth of my teachers?
Who needs to participate in the PGC? What about non-qualified teachers or relievers? What does the PGC look like for our provisionally registered teachers, and how does this fit in with their registration process?

About our facilitator - Sonja Ploeg (InterLEAD)

Sonja has considerable experience in the early childhood sector over the last 20 years including teaching in both community-based preschools and kindergartens. She has a strong knowledge base related to: strengthening and embedding Internal Evaluation and Professional Growth Cycles to promote teacher-led inquiry; growing pedagogical capability and documentation that reflects a localised curriculum; building leadership knowledge and skills to sustain collective leadership and professional community and; developing effective communication strategies to build a positive team culture built on high trust relationships.

A key strength that Sonja brings is in establishing and maintaining authentic professional relationships as she works alongside leaders and teams. Her passion is mentoring others and providing professional learning and development for those who aspire to seek excellence.

Recorded on 17th May 2022
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Primary Teacher to Early Childhood Teacher – Using Te Whāriki - Judith Price (InterLEAD)
(suitable for primary teachers)

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Primary Teacher to Early Childhood Teacher – Using Te Whāriki - Judith Price

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About the webinar:

Differences to consider when teaching in the ECE sector
An outline of the key documents used in Early Childhood centres
Te Whāriki - An overview of the Early Childhood curriculum and key areas to focus on.

About our facilitator – Judith Price, B.Ed., Dip. Teaching (Primary), Dip. Teaching (ECE)

Judith is a Ministry of Education accredited facilitator with over 30 years experience in the education sector. She brings a wealth of leadership experience supporting schools and early childhood centres design systems to improve and grow teaching and professional practices.

Judith is very much a ‘hands on’ person and a strong advocate for firstly understanding theoretical components and then being able to apply these strategies in a practical sense within the learning environment. With over 15 years experience in leading teams of teachers, Judith has highly developed relationship management skills and easily relates with others. She is committed to developing others to their full potential and very passionate about guiding teachers on their ‘life-long learning’ quest.

Recorded on 4th March 2020
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Primary

ELL: Assessing our linguistically diverse learners - Jane van der Zeyden (Tools4Teachers)
(suitable for primary teachers)

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ELL: Assessing our Linguistically Diverse Learners - Jane van der Zeyden (Tools4Teachers)

$35

(Suitable for year 1-8 teachers)

About this webinar (recorded 17th August 2022)

Are the Assessment tools used in classrooms suitable for our English Language Learners? Should they be assessed using different tools? If so, what tools could we use?

If these are questions that are being asked in your school this webinar explores the following:

What are the best tools?
What’s different when we assess English Language Learners?
Assessment for accessing ESOL funding
Using assessments from the mainstream classroom
How the ELLP Pathway fits into the assessment process

About our Facilitator, Jane Van De Zeyden (Tools4Teachers)
Jane is a Ministry of Education accredited facilitator and has worked in teacher professional development since 2007. During that time she has provided both literacy and ESOL professional development to schools across NZ. She has worked in Schooling Improvement Initiatives, the Accelerating Literacy Learning Project (ALL) and was a Practice Leader at Learning Media. She is a panel member on the Ministry of Education National Advisory group on English Language Learners and currently provides literacy and ESOL PLD across New Zealand through her company, Tools 4 Teachers Ltd.

Recorded on 17th August 2022
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ELL: Using the English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP) Pathway tool - Jane van de Zeyden (Tools4Teachers)
(suitable for primary teachers and lead ESOL teachers)

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ELL: Using the English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP) Pathway tool - Jane van de Zeyden (Tools4Teachers)

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The ELLP Pathway tool has been in draft form for the last two years. During that time some teachers have had opportunities to use it and feed back to the Ministry of Education on its structure, uses and adaptations that may be needed These have been considered and the final version of the tool is now in use.

If you would like to know more about how to use it both for planning and teaching and the new guidance for using it to access ESOL funding, this workshop will be of interest to you.

Content for the webinar will include:

How the Pathway links to the English Language Learning Progressions (ELLP)
Using the ELLP Pathway to track and monitor progress and achievement
Who the tool is designed to be used by
Supporting material to be used in conjunction with the Pathway
Using the Pathway to plan appropriate learning experiences.

About our Facilitator, Jane Van De Zeyden:

Jane is a Ministry of Education accredited facilitator and has worked in teacher professional development since 2007. During that time she has provided both literacy and ESOL professional development to schools across NZ. She has worked in Schooling Improvement Initiatives, the Accelerating Literacy Learning Project (ALL) and was a Practice Leader at Learning Media. She is a panel member on the Ministry of Education National Advisory group on English Language Learners and currently provides literacy and ESOL PLD across New Zealand through her company, Tools 4 Teachers Ltd.

Feedback on this webinar

"I highly recommend Jane Van Der Zeyden's ELLP Pathway webinar for beginning and experienced mainstream teachers. ESOL specialist teachers with leadership responsibilities will also find this webinar very informative."
- Lynne, Primary ESOL and Literacy Support teacher, Auckland.

Recorded on 17th February 2022
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Supporting our English Language Learners to Become Writers - Jane van der Zeyden (Tools4Teachers)
(suitable for primary teachers)

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Supporting our English Language Learners to Become Writers - Jane van der Zeyden

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About the webinar:

This 1 hour webinar focuses on Teaching English Language Learners essential skills in writing.

Using the English Language Learning Progressions to track progress and identify learning needs
Using the key resources English Language Intensive Programme (ELIP), Supporting English Language Learners in Primary schools (SELLIPS)
What needs to be differentiated for ELLs in literacy teaching?
Practical strategies for literacy teaching.

About our Facilitator, Jane Van De Zeyden:

Feedback about this webinar

"Thank you Jane for an excellent webinar on English Language Learners and writing. There was an excellent balance of theory and practice. This webinar would be helpful for both experienced and beginning teachers as well as ESOL Specialist teachers. Highly Recommended."
- Lynne, Primary teacher - Auckland

Recorded on 16th October 2020
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