The Reach Out Teachers Network personnel are available to
provide school professional development sessions for individual
schools, communities of schools, regions or state conferences.
Please find below a list of professional development options
that we are able to deliver:
Conference presentations
The Reach Out Teachers Network Manager, Janice Atkin, has
presented keynote addresses at a range of education conferences
including the Association of Independent Schools Annual Student
Welfare conference 2009; Expanding Learning Horizons Australasian
Conference 2009; the NSW PD, Health and PE Teachers Association
annual conference. These keynote addresses have included:
- Promoting positive mental health in the school setting
- The social impact of technology on Australia's young
people
- Supporting young people to be safe onine
- Creating online communities to support the promotion of
positive mental health
Staff professional development
sessions
Whole staff training day sample program
Promoting resilience and positive mental health and
wellbeing in a school community
- De-mystifying the role of the teacher (it's not about
counseling it's about caring)
- What is resilience and how can we promote it at school?
- Protective factors - what are they?
- Practical strategies for engaging with students in the
classroom and playground
- Starting a conversation
- Resources to support these conversations
Smaller group training (could be video conferences or face
to face)
- Teaching about mental health in the curriculum (developing
curriculum plans, teaching strategies, resources)
- Connecting a young person in need to appropriate help
- Supporting students to be safe online
- Promoting positive relationships in the school
Parent information sessions
- Social networking 101 - what's all the fuss about?
- Supporting young people to be safe online
- Resources available to support a young person going through a
tough time.
If any of these presentations are of interest to you or if you
would like to discuss other possible professional development
sessions that we could support you with, please email Janice Atkin
at janice@inspire.org.au.
Promoting mental health in Health and Physial Education
FREE full day workshops in Victoria
Reach Out Teachers Network have partnered with the Zig Inge
Foundation to present professional learning workshops for Victorian
secondary school teachers to support the promotion of youth mental
health and wellbeing in Health and Physical Education.
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