On-Demand Professional Learning - SPELD NSW

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On-Demand Professional Learning

On-Demand Professional Learning

Are you looking for evidence-based professional learning that you can complete when and where it suits you best. SPELD NSW offers a wide range of on-demand professional learning courses.

You can complete on-demand professional learning as an individual – completing professional learning when it best suits you – or as a school or clinic. If you enroll as a school or clinic your team can have access to the course to complete in team meetings, after school or twilight professional learning!!

We hope you enjoy our evidence-based, practical and popular professional learning workshops and courses!!

Check out our On-Demand Professional Learning in the Learning & Resources Hub!

Do you want to increase your confidence to teach spelling explicitly and effectively?

On 19 August 2024, SPELD NSW is launching the first in our on-demand, self-paced spelling courses. These courses are perfect for teachers, interventionists and speech pathologists looking to develop their own spelling content knowledge and learn some explicit instruction routines to confidentially teach students to become fluent writers!

Looking for on-demand professional learning about evidence-based reading instruction? Check out our Teaching Reading in K-2 Webinar Series

This series of webinars takes some big ideas and packages them up into digestible bite-sized sessions to help K-2 teachers and leaders take the next step in implementing evidence-based reading in their classrooms.

Are you looking for short and engaging professional learning on maths and maths learning difficulties!?

This series of courses from maths expert Judy Hornigold addresses fundamental maths skills and mathematical learning and learning difficulties. Great professional learning for early years teachers, interventionists, and school leaders.

On-Demand Professional Learning

Maths with Judy Hornigold – 8 Course Bundle

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

23 June 2024

This series of courses from maths expert Judy Hornigold addresses fundamental maths skills and mathematical learning and learning difficulties. Great professional learning for early years teachers, interventionists and school leaders.

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Introduction to Dyscalculia – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

24 June 2024

This short course will explain the nature of dyscalculia and how it differs from more general maths learning difficulties. Indicators of dyscalculia will be detailed together with a review of current screening tools for dyscalculia. The course will also explore a range of strategies to support children with dyscalculia.

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Multiplication and Division – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

24 June 2024

This short course looks at what concepts children need to understand to multiply and divide and the properties of these operations. It then explores the concept of key facts, derived facts and fluency, before looking at the different models of multiplication and division.

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Place Value – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

24 June 2024

This short course explains the complexity of the skills needed to understand our place value system. It looks at the unitising principle, confusion over tens, ‘teens and ‘ty’, and the importance of zero. The course ends with an explanation of the Gattegno chart and links to decimals and percentages.

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Manipulatives – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

24 June 2024

This short course explains the importance of using a wide range of manipulatives when teaching maths. The specific manipulatives covered in the session are Cuisenaire rods, two-coloured counters, ten frames, base ten materials (MAB) and Numicon.

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Maths and Dyslexia – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

24 June 2024

This course will explain how dyslexia can impact on maths attainment and how the strengths of the dyslexic learner can be harnessed to support maths attainment. We will look at the role of working memory and processing speed in maths as well as the impact of reading issues when working with word problems.

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Metacognition and Maths – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

24 June 2024

This course will explore the importance of metacognition in maths (and learning in general). It will detail what metacognition is and how to develop metacognitive awareness. Strategies for using metacognition in problem solving will also be explored.

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Bar Modelling and Word Problems – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

24 June 2024

This short course explores problem solving approaches, including Newman’s and Polya’s procedures. Then bar modelling is explained with several examples before moving on to number less word problems, the 3 reads strategy and finally goals free problems.

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Addition and Subtraction – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

24 June 2024

This short course looks at what concepts children need to understand to be able to add and subtract and the properties of these operations. It then explains the different models of addition and subtraction.

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The SPELD NSW Spelling Series – 10 Course Bundle

WHEN: Series of on-demand courses with the first course available from 5pm,

18 August 2024

This series of on-demand, self-paced courses is perfect for teachers, interventionists and speech pathologists looking to develop their own spelling content knowledge and learn some explicit instruction routines to confidentially teach students to become fluent writers!

Teaching Long Vowels: Not everything all at once

WHEN: On-demand course available from 5pm,

19 August 2024

Teaching students how to spell words with long vowels can be tricky. In this course, we show you great tips and tricks to simplify spelling instruction to make it more effective and targeted. We don’t want you to have to teach 8 spellings for the /ay/ phoneme! So, what do you do instead? Join us and we will show you!

Ending Spellings

WHEN: On-demand course available from 5pm,

16 September 2024

English loves word endings rules! There are some rules and patterns around how to spell word endings and here we cover the most common ones. Ck or c or k? Dge or ge? FLOSS? We will simplify these tricky generalisations and then show you a simple way to teach them!