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First steps to setting up a well-planned STEM Program in your school

Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Time: 4.00pm to 5.00pm AEDT (Daylight Savings)
Format: Webinar – 60min

Schools often begin enacting STEM by introducing STEM clubs or activities at lunchtime or after school, having STEM specialist subjects and maker spaces, or even participating in STEM competitions. These approaches are all great ways to begin laying the groundwork for a sustainable STEM program. The challenge for many schools will be moving STEM from these groundwork laying activities to an authentic STEM program that delivers the desired outcomes.

In this webinar Adrian will outline the thinking and planning that schools will need to do if they are going to design a whole school STEM program that delivers. This includes discussing creating a design brief for a STEM program, mindset and capabilities planning, learning ladders, and mapping approaches. Templates for planning will be provided. This is a perfect webinar for beginning as well as experienced STEM teachers.

Designed for Primary and Secondary School Teachers and Leaders.

Registration fee: $50.00 inc. GST per person (discounts apply for school groups 5+)

Leading and Assessing STEM Learning

Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Time: 4.00pm to 5.00pm AEST
Format: Webinar – 60min

There are a lot of misconceptions about STEM learning and what is important to focus on when leading it and assessing it. In this webinar we will discuss and explore some of the key lessons that teachers need to learn as they take the journey of being effective in enacting STEM learning. This includes contexts, structures and thinking.

We will also explore various approaches to measuring learning progression in transdisciplinary units including the underlying thinking frameworks of the Technologies Curriculum. Attendees will leave with a range of tools they can begin to apply in their own classes.

Designed for Primary and Secondary School Teachers and Leaders.

Registration fee: $50.00 inc. GST per person (discounts apply for school groups 5+)

Developing STEM Learning Ladders to guide resourcing and coherent planning

Date: Wednesday, 13 June 2024
Time: 4.00pm to 5.00pm AEST
Format: Webinar – 60min

Resourcing STEM learning is a persistent challenge schools. Questions constantly arise about whether the school should buy product X or software Y and how much would it cost. Do we buy robotic system Z or perhaps purchase this science equipment? Before purchasing anything, it is recommended that schools create a learning ladder. A learning ladder maps the progression of core skills, materials, equipment and resources that would support students to become highly capable STEM learners. This could include practical skills, digital and design technologies knowledge and skills, as well as any other STEM-based skills.

In this practical webinar we will discuss the importance of planning to provide students with the necessary habitual exposure, practice and skills to tackle more complex STEM tasks and projects as they progress through their schooling. You will also have the opportunity to collaboratively design a learning ladder for one key skill so that you have the tools to tackle this for you own school.

Designed for Primary School Teachers and Leaders.

Registration fee: $50.00 inc. GST per person (discounts apply for school groups 5+)

Developing learners' mindset maps

Date: Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Time: 4.00pm to 5.00pm AEST
Format: Webinar – 60min

Mindset is the collection of thoughts and beliefs about how the world works that shape individuals’ experiences of reality. It shapes the way an individual habitually thinks, feels and acts. Think of it as the operating system for a mind – working below the surface, controlling everything that happens. A well-crafted STEM program goes beyond imparting knowledge; it shapes problem-solvers, creative thinkers, and curious minds). As Yeager and Dweck’s (2020) research has shown, learner mindsets can be nurtured through explicitly creating supportive learning environments.

In this webinar we will explore the idea of mapping a progressive sequence of mindset mottos with the aim for students to internalize a learner’s mindset over the period of schooling. You will have the opportunity to collaboratively unpack a mindset motto into norms, agreements, and practical strategies therefore learning how you can do it back at your school.

Designed for Primary and Secondary School Teachers and Leaders.

Registration fee: $50.00 inc. GST per person (discounts apply for school groups 5+)

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Facilitator Dr Adrian Bertolini

Adrian is the Founder and CEO of Intuyu Consulting Pty Ltd – an educational consultancy that works with teachers, school leaders and schools to unleash learning and leadership. His journey began as a curious kid growing up in Dandenong and led him to being an engineer and Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at RMIT University.

His career has taken him around the world including spending time in the USA exploring leadership in innovative tech companies, developing students as community leaders as part of the ruMAD program, and working across Australia with students, teachers and school leaders in primary, secondary and tertiary environments. He spent 10 years as a volunteer leading and coaching in transformative leadership programs and has a passion for nurturing and growing community leadership.

Adrian is the author of ‘Igniting STEM Learning’ a groundbreaking resource for teachers and leaders.