Profesional Learning

Catholicity STUFF (Spending Time Unpacking Faith Foundations)

K-6 Professional Learning opportunity
For: Primary Principals and RECs
Contact: Helen Moon (moonh01@dow.catholic.edu.au)

Targeting K-6 early career and beginning teachers, this course aims to build foundational knowledge and skills in the area of Catholicity for application in the K-6 Classroom and across the Primary School.

• Tuesday 11 March 2025 (9 am - 3 pm)

Funding available as follows (1 stream school = 1 place, 2 stream school = 2 places, 3 stream school = 3 places, 4 stream school = 4 places).

Casual Release code: C01.

Please consider who on your staff may benefit from this one day professional learning experience. For more information and registration details please click here.

Registrations close Friday 28 February 2025.

The Gospel of Luke (Year C)

For: Principals, RECs and Leaders of Mission
Due: Friday 7 March 2025
Contact: John Coppola - 0477 446 431 (coppolag01@dow.catholic.edu.au) 

Stage 2, 3 and 5 Religious Education teachers have the opportunity to engage in professional learning on The Gospel of Luke (Year C).

This professional learning will equip primary and secondary teachers of Religious Education to:

• Appreciate the nature of the scriptures and the consequent implications for understanding them and teaching them
• Examine the community behind the Gospel of Luke, and reflect on how that is a key to understanding the Gospel text
• Reflect on a series of key texts in the Gospel of Luke and unpack the energy and relevance within these texts
• Generate some initial teaching strategies
• Build a community of practice with an ability to share strategies, teacher background information, and student resources: learners utilising the workshop

When: Tuesday 18 March 2025

Where: Emmaus Centre Conference

Registration: Via LMS by Friday 7 March 2025

The CEO will fund up to two staff members per school.

Please consider who on your staff would benefit from this professional learning opportunity facilitated by BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education, and have them register in LMS prior to Friday 7 March.

Return to Work Program Professional Learning Module

The Workplace Safety and Wellbeing team has introduced a new Learning Management System (LMS) module, ‘Return to Work Program Module’, e-learning training, aimed at educating and creating awareness around CEDoWs  Return to Work (RTW) Program.

This new LMS module provides education and training on the key aspects of the RTW Program and takes approximately 45 minutes to complete.

This includes:

1. Early Intervention
2. Injury Management Plan
3. Recover at Work Plan
4. Workplace Support
5. Consultation and Communication
6. Monitoring and Review
7. Compliance with Legal Requirements.

All staff are required to complete this new LMS module.  

An email notification will be received by all staff stating that a mandatory learning activity has been added to their development plan, the week beginning 10 February 2025.

If you have any questions regarding the resources, please contact Workplace Safety and Wellbeing on whs@dow.catholic.edu.au.

For CEDoW’s full range of workplace, safety, and wellbeing resources please visit the Workplace Safety and Wellbeing Hub on Gateway.

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:

1. Developing inner calm and a strong sense of ‘who you are’ as an educator.
2. Learning to differentiate daily classroom goals from long-term measures of success.
3. Understanding healthy staff: student relationships with boundaries.
4. Trusting your ability to teach well in an uncertain world.

Click here to register for this webinar.