Opportunities for Learning

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Janet Farrall has worked in the field of education for over 35 years as a teacher, Head of Department, Head of Learning and Teaching, Author, Professional Learning Facilitator, Project Manager and Consultant. She is a knowledgeable, energetic and practical presenter who has a passion for student agency, teacher agility and school improvement.

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Janet offers a variety of stimulating and practical workshops that can be tailored to your needs:

• Academic Vocabulary

• Assessment and diversity in the Australian Curriculum

• Backward curriculum design

• Cognitive verbs and verb progressions (I can progressions)

• Co-cognitive factors for 21st century learning, for example, self-efficacy, mindsets, grit and curiosity

• Curriculum models and taxonomies for critical, creative and reflective thinking, for example, Bloom’s Taxonomy, the SOLO Taxonomy, Marzano's Taxonomy and Questivities™

• Depth and complexity icons

• Differentiation by design

• Differentiation by design: Instructional tools and strategies

• Dispositions for learning

• Gifted education

• Hexagonal Thinking

• Inquiry methods and approaches

• Metacognition

• Parents; advice, support and resources

• Philosophical and ethical thinking

• Progressions, including learning ladders and developmental rubrics

• Questioning skills and strategies for teachers and students

• Rosenshine's Principles and their application in the classroom

• Science of learning and its application in the classroom

• Thinking and learning

• Underachievement

• Visual thinking

• Well-being

 

MODES OF LEARNING

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• Coaching/mentoring of individual teachers and small groups of teachers

• Two hour, half and full day teacher workshops

• Keynotes

• Long-term professional learning

• Small group workshops

• Staff meetings

 

Janet is able to design workshops that meet your professional learning needs in your context. This could be a combination of some of the above.

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All workshops are suited to teachers F -10, unless otherwise stated.

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Professional Learning Workshops 2022: Science of Learning (Janet Farrall)

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In Terms 2, 3 and 4, the workshops will be offered remotely via Microsoft Teams in two x 2 hour workshops per term, 5.00pm-7.00pm.  No workshops were offered during Term 1, because of the uncertainty surrounding Covid in our schools.

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This evidence-informed professional learning course for educators, F- 12, is based upon a variety of models developed through research into the Science of Learning, for example, Rosenshine (2012), Learning Scientists (2015), PowerfulTeaching (2021) and PENS: Psychology, Education, Neuroscience (2021). 

 

Strategies for increasing learning outcomes for the diverse range of students we encounter will address the application of cognitive science to learning in our classrooms.

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