Professional Learning
Release of 2024 HSC Analysis and Training Opportunities
Catholic Schools NSW (CSNSW) is pleased to announce that the 2024 HSC Data Analysis by Dr John DeCourcy is complete and available for downloading. This can be accessed via the HSC Data Analysis recipients portal in NetID.
Please read further below for HSC Training and Consultation opportunities in February.
HSC Data Analysis Seminars
CSNSW is hosting several seminars with Dr John DeCourcy in February to explore the 2024 HSC Data Analysis. Please refer to CSNSW's Professional Learning Platform for more information.
HSC Consultations with CSNSW
Meetings can be arranged between CSNSW and diocesan staff or school leaders interested in delving further into specific HSC results for their diocese or school. These consultations can be conducted online or in person and can be arranged from February 2025 onwards by registering interest. After registering, CSNSW will be in contact to discuss your specific needs. Register here.
Wellbeing Webinar with Dr Helen Street – Educating with Resilience
One of the most fundamentally important drivers of student wellbeing, positive behaviour and learning engagement, is the quality of staff: student relationships. The more effectively and meaningfully teachers connect with their students, the more their students feel well, behave well and learn well. Dr Helen Street will deliver this online webinar on Wednesday 12 March from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm ADST.
It is, however, undeniably difficult for teachers to invest in healthy relationships with their students, if their own wellbeing and capacity for resilience is constantly challenged.
In this online presentation, Helen will explore the notion of what it means to be a resilient educator in Catholic schools, in 2025. In so doing she will offer ideas and strategies to help educators build both their capacity for resilience and their ongoing wellbeing.
Most notably, Helen will propose four key approaches to day-to-day educator life.
These approaches will focus on:
- Developing inner calm and a strong sense of ‘who you are’ as an educator.
- Learning to differentiate daily classroom goals from long-term measures of success.
- Understanding healthy staff: student relationships with boundaries.
- Trusting your ability to teach well in an uncertain world.
Click here to register for this webinar.
Free online staff training to recognise and respond to anaphylaxis
Free online courses for all primary and secondary school staff have been developed to provide nationally consistent training in recognising and responding to anaphylaxis.
We encourage all school communities to participate in this training, developed by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) and endorsed by the Department of Health and Aged Care.
The training aligns with the requirement under the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, Focus Area 4.4, that teachers maintain student safety within the school system.
Learn more on ASCIA's website.
Free Classroom Management Course to Enhance Teacher Effectiveness
One in three teachers reports losing valuable teaching time due to disruptive behaviour. Research highlights that fostering a positive disciplinary climate enhances student performance in reading literacy.
To address this, the University of Adelaide is offering a free micro-credential course on classroom management. Designed by experts, the course provides strategies for creating safe and orderly learning environments, managing disruptions, and promoting positive classroom practices.
This self-paced online course allows teachers to complete it at their convenience and may serve as a pathway to postgraduate study with the University of Adelaide. There are additional self-paced learning opportunities including Explicit Teaching and Teaching Phonics.
Supported by over $3 million in funding from the Albanese Government, this initiative is part of the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan and the Engaged Classrooms initiative.
This micro-credential will take you on a learning journey exploring proactive, preventative classroom management strategies that can be used to support diverse cohorts of students. There is a strong focus on Tier 1 strategies in Modules 1 and 2. As you move into Modules 3 and 4, you will explore strategies that can be used to support students who are engaging in more challenging behaviours – those that sit in Tiers 2 and 3. In each module, you will engage with the theory and evidence that sits behind the strategies and investigate how the strategies could be implemented in the classroom and as part of a whole-school approach to classroom management.
The 4 modules are a 48-hour course and include the following:
- Module 1 - Creating a safe and orderly classroom culture
- Module 2 - Addressing frequent interruptions to learning
- Module 3 - Building positive and inclusive practices
- Module 4 - Managing escalations in behaviour
Click here for more information.
Click here to enrol.