NHCRC News Flash from our HR guru and gem Dianne….. Lots of teachers need to make sure that their VIT registrations and NHCRC are up to date so that they can be ready for action. It seems too that many pay online for the NHCRC to be updated after 5 years, but fail to send their 100 points of ID to the VIT (e.g. certified copies of Passport and Driver’s Licence) that is required by the VIT to trigger the new check. Please give the VIT or us a call if you need to enquire further, just in case you’re still waiting…… ?!?!
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NHCRC paperwork
February 11th, 2012A HUGE month of Professional Learning!
February 11th, 2012We’ve started off the year with the pedal to the metal! CRT Seminars, REd Toolkits for Relief Teachers, record numbers learning how to use an Interactive Whiteboard, a full day on Thinking Curriculum and shortly we have the two hour session for relief teachers on teaching children with learning difficulties – “When Great Minds Don’t Think Alike”. We’re also about to announce details of our next First Aid program which will be on in April at the end of the school holidays..
Full House sign is up for our FTG Commencing Relief Teaching Seminar
January 23rd, 2012Wow!! We’ve filled our first seminar session already! There’s still room at Williamstown for Wednesday, and our next FERNTREE GULLY session will be held on Monday 6th FEBRUARY. You can book in now, it’s on our PROFESSIONAL LEARNING listings on this site.
Happy Holidays!!
December 23rd, 2011All had a great time at our end of year celebration functions at Mulgrave and by the Yarra in this last week of term. We’d like to wish all Resource Ed schools and teachers a great festive season, and a restful break ready to hit the ground running again in 2012! Our Head Office will be closed over the festive season and will reopen on Wednesday 4th January.
We’re planning to party…
December 5th, 2011
There are lots of reasons to celebrate the end of 2011, so it’s time to note in your diary either Tuesday 20th December at 4.30pm at the Mulgrave Country Club where the drinks and nibbles will be on us until 7.00pm, or come along on Wednesday 21st December to a riverside barbeque beside the Yarra on Alexandra Avenue near the Anderson Street bridge just below the Royal Botanical gardens, again from 4.30 to 7.00pm, where snags in bread will be the hot item, and the drinks will be on us as well! Either function is a great time for thanking our team of amazing Area Managers who work tirelessly to help our schools as well as try to look after you with work opportunities too. Keep an eye out in your email for details…
Megan’s Teachable Moments
December 5th, 2011
I always look forward to when author, educator and speaker Megan Dredge sends out ”A Teachable Moment“ to her online newsletter subscribers, a quick anecdote of professional inspiration. Megan presented at our most recent “Box of Tricks” professional learning day in October on the topic “Casual Teaching isn’t so Casual”. We also workshop her
CRT Starter Pack as part of our REd Toolkit for serious relief teachers. In her latest “Teachable Moment” she has humbled us by referring to a concept that we introduced to her when discussing the brilliance of our relief teachers who show “visible confidence” in their intention and delivery! If, like me, you value a little teaching inspiration now and again, check our Megan’s free book ”What Makes A Great Teacher Great!” and subscribe to her teachable moments.
MyVIT – Your personal VIT online access
September 29th, 2011Have you created your MyVIT account yet? Worth doing wethinks! After logging in to your secure MyVIT portal, you can record all of your Professional Learning by clicking on the MyPD tab. What do you like about the MyVIT facility? What doesn’t impress you? Are there any advantages, benefits or improvements for you, or do you only have frustrations or disappointments to relate? Looking forward to relief teachers sharing and comparing their impressions……
MyVIT
How often is teacher absence causing disruption?
August 2nd, 2011Schools are increasingly employing strategies for coverage of absent teachers, in preference to CRTs for replacement.
Schools can choose to cover teacher absences and save money by rearranging the house internally, avoiding the need to employ a casual relief teacher. This is economically smart to some degree, but from what we hear it invariably disrupts normal program timetabling and delivery, class schedules, teachers’ duties and workload, and student groupings. Why, when teacher coverage is chosen over teacher replacement, is such widespread internal disruption being tolerated by school communities?
These practices are so widespread in the view of the Teacher Agency Network of Victoria (TANVic) that it is about to undertake its own research into the strategies employed by schools, and the possible costs to regular school program delivery of those tactics. This current epidemic of avoidance is driving many teachers to our agency in the hope that we can provide opportunities to them in place of their own former private work. Keep an eye out on the TANVic website, and for our own REd e-news for findings and recommendations expected to be released early next term. In the meantime do you know of the types of strategies that schools use?
Resource Ed e-news subscribers – Did you receive yours?!
August 2nd, 2011Did you receive your latest Resource Ed e-news Winter Edition ok? We used to publish the newsletter on the web site but these days it is circulated via email to all of our subscribers. Please let us know if you would like to register as a new subscriber or if your email address has changed recently!
REd Toolkits for Relief Teachers
June 21st, 2011Relief teachers who have attended our REd Toolkit Workshops have been full of praise in their evaluations of the value they received from the Toolkit materials and the workshop itself. The $60 Core Pack and workshop is great value on their own, but you also get to sample valuable excerts from three popular authors whose publications you can add to you toolkit if you wish: Glen Pearsall, Jenny Mackay and Megan Dredge. Great value whether you are wanting enaging activities, classroom behaviour strategies, or tips on how to get booked solid. Participants please add your comments….
