Professional Learning

The sessions are in real time and allow you to work with other professionals to gain insight and grow as an educator.

FURTHER OPPORTUNITIES

AEU SA New Educators' Conference

+ Fri 19 - Sat 20 May

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: Full AEU SA members in their first three years of teaching

Are you in your first three years of teaching? Join us to talk industrial, professional, and wellbeing skills for new teachers.

Gain insights from guest speakers, take part in workshops to hone your skills, and grow your professional support network.

Topics include classroom management, rights and entitlements, e-safety, and campaigning for job security.

Travel and accommodation support provided to Country members.

Decolonising the curriculum

+ Thur 4 May, 4pm - 5pm

+ Cost: Free for AEU members

+ For: AEU members only

This session explores the systems and assumptions that underpin the current approach to curriculum formation and offers a starting point to begin engaging with First Nations perspectives authentically as an educator.

Modern assessment theory

+ Thur 4 May, 5pm - 6pm

+ Cost: Free for AEU members

+ For: AEU members only

Assessment can be complex. This session explores subjects of professional judgement, reliability, validity, assessment for learning, assessment of learning, standards, performance standards, and norm-referenced assessments.

SBS Skills and Advice Huddle 2023 - Term 2

+ Thur 4 May, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

+ Cost: Free for AEU members

+ For: Sub-branch Secretaries, Workplace Representatives, and Workplace Organising Committee members

This huddle offers short, term-by-term coaching sessions for SBS and WOC members to ensure you fulfill your responsibilities to AEU colleagues at your site.

AEU Member PAC Training

+ Tue 9 May, 1:30pm - 4:30pm

+ Thur 15 June, 2pm - 5pm

+ Tue 18 July, 10am - 1pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU member PAC Representative –new and those wanting to retrain

AEU member PAC training is offered to ensure all AEU members with an interest or responsibility in school human resource matters understand the Enterprise Agreement and other documents in relation to PAC decisions and continue to develop skills as a PAC member.

AEU members will be encouraged to undertake a PAC refresher course every five years.

New Union Representatives Level 1

+ Thur 11 and Fri 12 May, 9:15am to 3:30pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU members in elected positions who have not completed level 1 training previously.

This hands-on, participatory course will ensure you understand your rights and responsibilities as an elected union representative.

Supporting students who have experienced trauma

+ Thur 11 May, 4pm - 5:30pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU members

Learn to support students who have experienced trauma, manage the resulting behaviours, and engage healthily with individual students using trauma-aware teaching in this session delivered by staff from Berry Street.

Managing the learning of students with anxiety

+ Thur 11 May, 5:30pm - 7pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU members

Anxiety levels in classrooms have significantly increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This course will explore techniques for working with students with anxiety, helping you to re-engage students who may be struggling.

AEU Merit Selection Retraining

+ Tue 16 May, 4pm - 6pm

+ Wed 7 June, 4pm - 6pm [TAFE]

+ Tue 20 June, 4pm - 6pm

+ Wed 5 July, 4pm - 6pm [TAFE]

+ Wed 19 July, 10am - 12pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU members who wish to become an AEU Representative on panels

This is a two-hour retraining session for AEU members that last attended Merit Selection training in 2018. AEU SA Policy requires AEU members to complete Merit Selection Retraining every five years to be eligible to be an AEU Representative on Merit Selection Panels.

Wellbeing - psychologically safe conversations

+ Thur 18 May, 5:30pm - 7pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU members

Psychological safety exists when individuals or groups feel free/safe to take risks, raise problems, disagree, ask questions, and admit mistakes.

This course explores how psychological safety benefits educators, and how leaders can create cultures of psychological safety.

Moderation and reporting in classroom assessment

+ Thur 1 June, 5pm - 6:30pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU members

This session highlights the benefits of moderation for improving teaching practice, assessing student work, and reporting to parents/carers helps improve us as educators.

At the end of this session, participants will feel confident engaging in formal and informal moderation processes in their own school and externally.

Engaging with students with ASD

+ Wed 7 June, 5:30pm - 7pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU members

Planning, maintaining focus, remembering instructions, and juggling multiple tasks are often more challenging for students with ASD. This session will outline specific teaching strategies which benefit both students with ASD and all students in the classroom.

While the focus is teaching strategies, the course will also be of interest to education support staff working one to one or with small groups of students who have ASD.

Leadership - building healthier relationships with parents

+ Wed 5 July, 9am - 12pm

+ Cost: Free for members

+ For: AEU members

Leaders have a responsibility to generate healthy relationships with parents, leading parents to take a greater role in their child's education, as well as improving the culture of the school community.

Jane Wenlock, a researcher in the field, outlines a guiding framework for school leaders to engage parents, including practical strategies to overcome challenges in this session.

AEU SA Reconciliation Conference

+ Fri 2 June

+ Cost: Free for all AEU members

$111 for education staff not currently an AEU SA member

+ For: Strictly limited funded places available for AEU SA members (TRT voucher and travel and accommodation support)

A day focused on work preschools, schools and TAFE members can engage in as demonstration of commitment to reconciliation.

Hear from keynote speakers, Hon Kyam Maher MLC, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Lara Watson, ACTU Indigenous Officer and Natalie Gentle, Reconciliation SA on Narragunnawali.

Check out the AEU SA website regularly for more dates and courses at aeusa.asn.au/upcoming