PMBW teacher librarians

Hi everyone!

Here are the details of our Term 4 Professional Learning Day, which will be held on Tuesday 17th November Term 4 (Week 5) at Katoomba High School. The cost is $30.00, which covers professional catering for Morning Tea and Lunch and photocopying of hand-outs.

Online registration is now available (until early Term 4) at: https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/inservice/w_sydney/

Please mark this date in your diaries and I look forward to sharing a rewarding day of professional development with you!

Jenny Scheffers (TL @ Caddies Creek PS)
Chairperson,
Penrith, Mt Druitt, Blacktown & Windsor Teacher Librarian Professional Learning Group

AGENDA

8.15am Registration & Coffee

9.00am Welcome by Principal: Gail Ross

9.10am – 10.00am Practical Strategies for supporting Visual Literacy: Lizzie Chase (School Libraries & Information Literacy Unit), Pam Priestly (Springwood PS) & Janelle Van Capelle (Chifley College Bidwill Campus)

10 – 10.10am DET update

10.10 – 10.30am Sponsors’ Presentations: Syba Signs & Viking Books

10.30 –11.00am MORNING TEA

11.00 – 11.20am AGM & offers for 2010 host schools

11.25 – 12:15pm Concurrent Workshops 1
A: Co-operative Planning & Teaching & the integration of Guided Inquiry: Jenny Scheffers (Caddies Creek PS)

B: IWBs in the Library: Colleen Blancato (Hassall Grove PS, Fran Mead Eastern Creek PS, Shelley Napper Quakers Hill PS)

C: Transforming your school library: Ruth Buchanan (Colo HS)

12.25 – 1.15pm Concurrent Workshops 2
A: Co-operative Planning & Teaching & the integration of Guided Inquiry: Jenny Scheffers (Caddies Creek PS)

B: IWBs in the Library: Colleen Blancato (Hassall Grove PS, Fran Mead Eastern Creek PS, Shelley Napper Quakers Hill PS)

C: Transforming your school library: Ruth Buchanan (Colo HS)

1.15 – 2.00pm LUNCH and Sponsors’ Displays

2.00- 3.00pm Recent Work – from Board Books to YA: Tohby Riddle (author and illustrator)

3.00 – 3.30pm Concluding Evaluation / Lucky Door Prize Draws.

Today Emma Quay, illustrator, and Lisa Shanahan, author, launched their exciting, new children’s picture book, “Bear and Chook by the sea”, at our very successful teacher-librarians’ professional development day.

I can’t wait for Term 4, when Jenny Scheffers and I coordinate a book rap based on their two “Bear and Chook” titles.

Hi all,

Registration for our T-L professional development days is now done online, as are all NSW DET professional development courses from this year. The information and registration details for our Term 2 Professional Learning day is now available at the Western Sydney Professional Learning Events Registration link (found at the School Administration tab on the NSW DET intranet). Or, go to https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/inservice/w_sydney/.

Once you register, please print of a copy of your registration and send it together with a cheque for $30 made out to Blacktown South Public School to:
Attention: Lee Arundel
Blacktown South Public School, 183 Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown, NSW, 2148.

Soon after the closing date you’ll receive a confirmation email. To nominate your chosen workshops, you will need to reply to the confirmation email. The day’s program is shown here.

Regards, Ian McLean & Colleen Blancato,
on behalf of the committee.

Our Term 2 Meeting is set for WED 3^rd June at Jamisontown PS, Penrith South.
Teacher Librarian: Tracey Jones
Address: Thurwood Avenue, Penrith South
Parking: In-ground parking available at back of school
Phone: (02) 4733 2200

8.15 am   Registration & Coffee

9.00 am   Welcome by Principal: Mrs Lorraine Segula

Housekeeping

9.15 am   Guest Speaker: Paul MacDonald (The Children’s Bookshop): Review of the Shortlisted CBCA titles and What’s Hot

10.15 am Sponsors’ Presentations: Edufun and Elizabeth Richards

10.30 – 11.00 am MORNING TEA

11.00 – 12:00 pm  Concurrent Workshops 1

A: OASIS Beginners – Stocktake and Adding Websites Laureen Sheppard (Katoomba High School)

B: Integrating Blogs & Wikis Into the Library Teaching Program Ian McLean (Penrith PS)

C: Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Literacy Framework – A useful frame work for analysing images Lizzie Chase Review Coordinator, School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit

12.10  – 1.00 pm Concurrent Workshops 2

A: Advanced OASIS -  Better Library  Reports or how to make them do what you want them to do Laureen Sheppard (Katoomba High School)

B: Integrating Blogs & Wikis Into the Library’s Teaching Program – Ian McLean (Penrith PS)

C: Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Literacy Framework – A useful frame work for analysing images – Lizzie Chase Review Coordinator, School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit

1.00 – 2.00 pm  LUNCH and Sponsors’ Displays

2.00 – 3.00 pm Looking Forward, Looking Back: the art of picture book collaboration – Lisa Shanahan (author) and Emma Quay (illustrator)

3.00 – 3.30 pm Concluding Evaluation / Lucky Door Prize Draws.

Thank you to all teacher-librarians and associates who attended today’s stimulating conference with guest speaker, Kevin Hennah, who presented sessions on Library Design and Space Management, and Transforming Your Library on a Shoestring Budget.

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