Phonological (sound) awareness is the critical foundation of all literacy learning, yet it remains an area that is not well understood in the classroom.

Removing the jargon and looking at practical approaches to teaching and learning is the focus of this webinar.

What you'll learn

1. Knowledge of the progression of learning
2. Practical approaches for assessing and teaching essential skills

Target audience

Parents, ECE and primary teachers, and/or teachers and parents of learners struggling to use The Code for reading and spelling.

The landscape for learning is changing. Are you ready for this change? How is your school looking forward and outwards?

This webinar will introduce you to some of the basics of strategic foresight and the world of futures thinking. These ideas are critical for leaders to understand in order to create learning environments that meet the needs of 21st century learners. It is critical to grow the capabilities of teachers and boards to all be part of the future.

What you'll learn

1. What strategic foresight is and how you can use it in your school
2. Some simple strategies to develop a futures focused mindframe
3. How to use a futures wheel to consider the consequences of your change idea

Target audience

School leadership teams that are interested in thinking from a futures perspective and are interested in moving beyond status quo thinking.

In this talk I will define play as activity that is (a) self-chosen and self-directed, (b) intrinsically motivated (done for its own sake), (c) structured by the players themselves, and (d) occurs at least partly in an imaginary world. I will describe how each of these qualities contributes to play’s educative power. Children acquire social, emotional, and intellectual skills in play that cannot be taught in the classroom.

What you'll learn

1. Definition of play.
2. What children learn in play.
3. The harm of play deprivation.

Target audience

Parents, teachers, everyone concerned about children.