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6 hours F2F or 4.5 Webinar PD HOURS

Event Details

26/11/2024

9.30am - 3.30pm - Registration from 9.00am

Cliftons Conference Centre, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne

All Primary and Secondary Teachers and support staff.

$275.00 - $275.00 + GST

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Booking Conditions

No applications for this program will be accepted after all vacancies have been filled. Unsuccessful applicants will have their monies refunded in full. Cancellation prior to two weeks before the program date (cut-off date) will incur a 15% service charge per applicant. This program will be payable in full for cancellations made on or after the cut-off date or for failure to attend the program. All cancellations must be in writing and emailed to us. In the event of insufficient applications this program will not proceed and registration monies be fully refunded. In the event of this program being cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances registration monies only will be refunded as Critical Agendas will not accept liability for the payment of any other associated costs. Critical Agendas reserves the right to vary the advertised programs prior to commencement. Please note Critical Agendas reserves the right to transfer participants from face to face to webinar format with price adjustments (if required), should minimum numbers not be met for face to face event

Classroom Dynamics- the latest strategies and solutions to positive classroom management in 2025

Many schools are reporting that their students are increasingly prone to distraction and off-task behaviour. This workshop, based on Glen’s book Classroom Dynamics, offers teachers practical strategies for addressing these issues.

Glen Pearsall will explore three key areas across the day:

Low-Level Interventions

  • Non-verbal techniques and low key interventions for nudging students back to their learning quickly and quietly
  • Techniques for getting and holding student attention and engaging reluctant learners
  • Strategies for giving effective instructions and compelling commands – and for making seamless transitions between learning activities.

High-Level Interventions

  • Effective responses for pivoting around resistant or argumentative behaviours and getting students back to their learning.
  • Methods for calmly and directly challenging anti-social behaviour such as misogyny and homophobia
  • Techniques for mapping and responding to entrenched and extreme behaviours

Engagement & Differentiation

  • Engagement techniques for turning around class groups whose behaviour has become distracted and disruptive.
  • Differentiated instruction for supporting students who can’t rather than won’t behaviour

Face to face Participants will also receive a free copy of Glen Pearsall’s Classroom Dynamics (2024) when they attend this workshop.

If you are registering as a webinar participant, you can purchase a copy of Glen’s Book though this link:

Classroom Dynamics – Amba Press

 

Critical Agendas Speaker
Presented by Critical Agendas

Glen Pearsall

Glen Pearsall was a Teacher Leader and board member of the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority. He works throughout the world as an educational consultant. Glen is the author of the best-selling And Gladly Teach (2010)The Literature Toolbox (2014),  Fast and Effective Assessment(2019), Tilting Your Teaching(2020) and Classroom Dynamics (2024) He is the  co-author of Literature for Life (2005) and Work Right (2011.)  His ebook on questioning The Top Ten Strategic Questions for Teachers (2013) was translated into Khmer for Cambodian teachers. Glen is the co-creator of Toon Teach, an animated series on classroom management.

Expertise

Glen specializes in positive behaviour, feedback and questioning, differentiation, coaching and leadership and teacher workload reduction. He has presented for Critical Agendas on a range of subjects including High Impact Teaching Strategies, Positive Classroom Behaviours, Assessment and Feedback, Differentiation and the Brain, Leadership and VCE Literature.

 

 

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