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CRT doesn’t stand for chaotic, rowdy and traumatic. Join us to learn more on Calm Rewarding Teaching as a Casual Relief Teacher in 2024
8.30am – 9.00am – Webinar Log in.
9.00am – 10.30am – Presentation 1 -Sally Learey – “Engaging Students as a CRT”
As a CRT you need to quickly build rapport and relationships with students.
This session will explore how to do that using:
- the principles of engagement
- respectful communication
- activities and ideas to motivate students to engage
- the power of role modelling
10.30am – 11.00am – Morning Tea.
11.00am – 12.30pm – Presentation 2- Adam Kruger – High Impact teaching Strategies
Calling all CRTs! Enhance your teaching toolkit with our workshop focusing on High Impact Strategies tailored to meet the diverse needs of any classroom you encounter. Explore engaging activities, rapid feedback techniques, effective goal-setting practices, and quick rapport-building methods to excel in your teaching role. Attendees will walk away with:
- Data-informed, tried, and tested teaching strategies
- The ability to gather and analyse data in short amounts of time
- Effective feedback techniques focusing on student growth
Elevate your classroom presence and leave a lasting impact on students’ learning experiences.
12.30pm – 1.00pm – Lunch
1.00pm – 2.30pm – Presentation 3 – Dave Vinegrad – Thriving and surviving as a CRT.
Few teachers other than CRT’s understand the demands of the role. Some days can be heaven and others can be less than a joy. Finding the school, travelling to the school, discovering the work for each class, finding the room and settling the class down so at least peace prevails can be a doddle or sometimes a headache. Those CRT’s who seem to thrive don’t do it by luck, they have a magic folder of resources, use a bunch of clever strategies to manage the non-stop demands of a Prep class or the bush lawyers gathering at the back of your next Year 9 classroom.
This 90 minute session will provide participants with:
- A flowchart to surviving the trip to the school and the first 5 minutes when arriving at the school
- Approaches to take with oppositional students and those who refuse to give you their names
- How to set up the classroom for success with rules, blu tac and do-now activities
- How to avoid staffroom politics & work the room
- How to leave the school at the end of the day with heads held high & 100% accountability
- What to do when there is a crisis and when the lesson plan states ‘the class know what to do!’
2.30pm – 2.35pm Mini – Break
2.35pm – 4.00pm – Presentation 4 – Greg Mitchell – Unshaken
Have you ever picked up a can of Coke that someone else has shaken up and ended up in a mess? That’s pretty much what teaching a child with trauma is like when you are a casual relief teacher!
The numbers around trauma impacted students in Australia are variable but up to 40% of Australian students have been exposed to or have witnessed traumatic stressors.
That means in the average class you may have a whole bunch of agitated cans at different stages, and you might be the person who just might open them up!
An unprepared class that suddenly has a Casual Relief Teacher could be a trigger!
This workshop details the ways in which you can…
- Win the first ten minutes
- Be better prepared for unexpected responses
- Use thoughtful low risk interactions
- Specifically start to build relationships
- Promote predictability and consistency
- How to construct a feedback sandwich
- Teach techniques to “change the channel”
- Find a kid’s confidence button
- Know what the exclusionary options are.
- Look after your own mental health.
With a little bit of forethought each one of these strategies can turn a potentially traumatic experience for you into a therapeutic encounter for everyone.
4.00pm Webinar End
