Webinar – How can we assess Essential Skills to grow young minds?
Join us for an interactive workshop led by Dr Venesser Fernandes as we explore how we can assess Essential Skills to Grow Young Minds!
Friday 25th Oct 2024 1:30pm AEST via Zoom
Welcome to the Essential Skills to Grow Young Minds event!
Join us online on Fri Oct 25 2024 at 13:30 GMT+1100 for an interactive session dedicated to exploring the assessment of Essential Skills, the key to growing young minds.
As Educators we all want the best for our children, and that includes the ability and appetite to be a confident, capable learner. In a fast-changing world, the ability to continuously adapt, take on new challenges and continue to grow is more important than ever. These Essential Skills do not come naturally to all of us but they can be taught, they have to be learned and they can be assessed!
Discover more about the crucial topic of assessing Essential Skills, and why it is vital for educators to help children thrive and reach their full potential.
Whether you are a teacher, carer, or simply passionate about child development, this event is tailored to provide you with valuable insights and strategies that directly relate to your interests,
Our esteemed speaker, Dr. Venesser Fernandes, is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. With her extensive experience and research in the field, she is a leading expert in the topics we will be discussing.
Her areas of teaching and research interest include: School Improvement and Effectiveness, Educational Leadership Studies, Data-improved Decision making in Schools, Evidence-based Organisational Change and Development in Education, Measurement and Evaluation in Education, Social and Emotional Learning in Education and Issues of Social Justice in Education.
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Friday 20th May 2022 – Learning with Games
Friday 20th May 2022 at 1pm, Dr Bron Stuckey aka “Princess Warrior” interactive webinar focussing on the importance of gamification in educating young minds.
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18th March 2022 –
Developing a Lifelong Learning Mindset at Home and School
2021 Webinar Series
The Coder and Journaling to Grow Young Minds
A practical workshop for teachers and parents to explore How to Grow Young Minds with Dr Jared Cooney Horvath.
Dr Jared Cooney Horvath, leading educational neuroscientist, will lead us through five separate practical learning resources you can use with your students or children learning at home, each of them focusing on the ‘coder.’
If you are looking for ways to develop a lifelong learning mindset, help your child or class develop emotional resilience and face the challenges of the 21st Century with confidence, this is an important professional learning opportunity not to be missed.
When: 8th Oct 2021
Time: 1pm AEST
Approx. 45minutes
2020 Webinar Series available to members
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- Technology Mindsets with Travis Smith (Microsoft, Australia) on 23rd October 2020
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17 February 2016.
Kingswood College Partnership
23 February 2015
Elevo is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Kingswood College to develop further the ThinkPlus metacurriculum and to coordinate and link ThinkPlus schools in Victoria. The focus of the development, to be managed by Kingswood in 2015, will be with two groups of students, those in Years 1 and 2 and those in Years 9 and 10. Materials developed are to be shared freely with ThinkPlus schools.
ThinkPlus is a metacurriculum for learnable intelligence and thinking tools, to be implemented in Australian schools from years Prep – 12. ThinkPlus is designed to develop an awareness of how our brains work, growth mindsets, good thinking dispositions and practical tools for collaboration, problem solving and creativity. The metacurriculum is based on contemporary research about how the brain learns and thinking occurs. The key to ThinkPlus is the concept that intelligence can be grown with effort. By instilling young learners with the confidence and ability to think through problems, we envisage that they will be better equipped to navigate challenges in the 21st century.
Kingswood College is an independent, co-educational ELC – Year 12 Uniting Church College in Box Hill and has been educating young men and women since 1890. Known for its innovation, collaboration and engagement, Kingswood College is entering an exciting time in its development as it implements a world-class student-focused learning agenda. Kingswood College’s agenda for learning is two-fold: improvement and innovation through the implementation of the LATTICE (Learning and Teaching through Innovation, Collaboration and Engagement) framework, and Kingswood College is a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.
Kingswood College’s partnership with the Elevo Institute aligns with both organisations’ commitment to innovation and creating a better future for young people. The Elevo Institute and Kingswood College seek to:
- develop the creative potential of young people as a preparation for the challenges of a rapidly changing world, and an unknowable future
- improve teaching and learning through development of well-researched and tested innovative methodologies
- incubate new ideas, taking them from thought leadership to the school/classroom.
For further information contact:
Elisabeth Lenders — Principal, Kingswood College — 03 9896 1700
David Loader — Director, Elevo Institute