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__**TeachMeet Kununurra **__


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Date: Thursday, 14 November, 2013 Time: 4pm - 6pm Venue: Kununurra Community Library, Mangaloo Street, Kununurra, WA, 6743


 * Agenda: **

|| Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme Teacher, KDHS (Secondary) // @MrShaneNash // || // Kristen.Wilson@ //// education.wa.edu.au // || // Healy.Erin@ //// cathednet.wa.edu.au // || // @HectPowles // || // @MrLeonWilson // || || Classroom Teacher, Dawul Remote Community School // Carrie.Mccormack@ //// education.wa.edu.au // || // Beth.VanDenHam@ //// education.wa.edu.au // || // Darren.Simpson //// @education.wa.edu.au // || //Tarryn.Audas//// @education.wa.edu.au // || //@bhavneetsingh12// ||
 * **Time** ||  **Presenter**  ||  **Session**  ||  **Session Outline**  ||  **About Presenter**  ||
 * 4:00 ||  Welcome  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 4:05 ||  Shane Nash  ||  Google Forms and You  ||  Some ideas on how Google Forms can be used in a whole school context, in the classroom and even by students
 * 4:15 ||  Kristen Wilson  ||  Persuasive Picture Books  ||  Exploring a number of picture books I’ve used in my classes over the past few years to help teach persuasive writing in a way that is relevant to all age groups  ||  Level 3 Classroom Teacher, Kununurra DHS
 * 4:25 ||  Erin Healy  ||  Nurturing Critical and Creative Thinking Skills  ||  Critical and creative thinking are important skills that we need to nurture in our students from the beginning of their school years. We will discuss the benefits, the links to the EYLF and National Curriculum and form ideas of how we can encourage critical and creative thinking in our classrooms.  ||  Early Childhood Teacher and Coordinator, St Joseph's School, Kununurra
 * 4:35 ||  Ryan Powles  ||  Discovering Edmodo  || This session aims to look at what Edmodo is and how it can be used in the classroom. Some highlights are turning in assignments, setting quizzes, extending the classroom beyond the four walls and being able to monitor secret learners. ||  Year 6 Teacher, Aquinas College
 * 4:45 ||||||||  Networking Break – Opportunity for all attendees and presenters to engage in professional conversation  ||
 * 5:00 ||  Leon Wilson  ||  Video-fy your classroom!  ||  Transform your thinking of traditional teaching, assessment and student feedback by using some simple online tools, and the camera that's already in your pocket  ||  Deputy Principal, Middle Primary, Kununurra DHS
 * 5:10 ||  Carrie McCormack  ||  Wow! How does that go?  ||  One teacher's story of learning to teach in a multi-age classroom.
 * 5:20 ||  Beth Van Den Ham  ||  Spelling Mastery  ||  An overview of the Spelling Mastery program and aspects that can be incorporated into the classroom. Using a combination of phonemic, whole-word and morphemic approaches essential for teaching the wide variety of word types in the English language and learning how to be an accurate speller.  ||  Upper Primary and ATAS Teacher, Kununurra DHS
 * 5:30 ||  Darren Simpson  ||  Visible Behaviour Management - Class Dojo  ||  How Dojo points, cute monsters and a central interface can make tracking positive reinforcement in the classroom a breeze.  ||  Deputy Principal, Upper Primary, Kununurra DHS
 * 5:40 ||  Tarryn Audas  ||  Study Smart  ||  How to incorporate Study Skills into lessons for upper primary and lower secondary students.  ||  Secondary English and Phys Ed Teacher, Kununurra DHS
 * 5:50 ||  Bhavneet Singh  ||  Building your Professional Learning Network  ||  Using Twitter as a professional learning tool - How and why.  ||  Associate Principal, ICT and Innovation, Quinns Beach PS
 * 6:00 ||||||||  Closing. All attendees invited to meet at Gullivers Tavern for drinks and debrief  ||

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