Professional Development Day
Innovation in Learning and Teaching
Event Details
Friday 17 February 2023
Registration from 9:00am
Commences at 9:15am
Concludes at 2:30pm
Innovation Centre
90 Sippy Downs Drive
Sippy Downs QLD 4556
Please see Parking at UniSC for more information.
Career advisors, school leadership and teaching staff
Overview
- Gain accredited professional development hours in alignment with QCT professional standards.
- Receive the latest updates about UniSC future-focused programs, initiatives and our plans for future innovation in teaching and learning.
- Hear from special guest speakers, who are regarded as some of Australia’s foremost experts in their field.
- Learn about the latest insights in the current issues and challenges facing the education environment.
- You'll explore the use of the UniSC graduate attributes to design and constructively align curriculum to enable opportunities (including placements, projects, and other types of learning activities) for students to develop qualities and soft skills through each program level from:
- Introduction to a discipline; building a sense of belonging and purpose: build skills, navigate, prepare and succeed.
- Development of autonomy and mastery; developing competencies in discipline area: build capacity, extend networks; create a professional identity.
- Supported transition into graduate employment or future study; consolidating networks: build advanced skills of an emerging professional.
- Be part of the Q & A panel discussion with opportunities to ask leading professionals in their field.
- Learn facilitator strategies, activities and behaviours support learning within the online environment and what are the affordances of education technology as a means of fostering online student engagement.
- Expand your network of like-minded professionals.
Innovation in Learning and Teaching
| 9:00am | Arrival at Innovation Centre | |
| 9:15am | PD Day commences | |
| 9:30am | Keynote speaker |
Dr Alison Willis on The Secret Ingredient in Innovation. Dr Alison Willis is a Senior Lecturer in Education. Her research investigates the effects disruption, stress and trauma on learning. Alison’s research interests include the roles of teachers in helping student overcome the effects of stress and trauma, learning in conflict and post-conflict environments, the effects of culture on learning, and the effects of teachers’ beliefs on student learning. |
| 10:15am | Morning Tea | |
| 10:30am | Breakouts | Innovation in Learning at Teaching- applying practices to your career run by Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CSALT) |
| 12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15pm | Q & A panel discussion |
Including leading academic and professional guests:
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| 2:00pm | Networking opportunity |
Network with fellow peers, UniSC staff and guest presenters. Campus tours available at request. |
| 2:30pm | PD Day concludes |
Registrations essential
Complete the form below and secure your seat at the event.
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