Developed around the theme, Transforming your Practice, our 2012 courses have been designed to build strong understandings around the key role that your school library, and library staff, can play in supporting student learning and achievement.
Our 2012 PLD direction is based on research findings for effective, professional development in New Zealand schools.
Our 2012 national course programme
Auckland (Learning Studio)
How to find out what PLD is offered in your area
General questions about the PLD Programme
Course fees - Earlybird rate and Full Fees
How to register – and registration deadlines
For the full list of courses offered nationally, with dates and locations, see the National PLD Programme 2012 (DOC)
If you are new to your role either as a Teacher with Library Responsibility, or a library staff member, in a primary or secondary school, then this is the course for you.
We’re delivering this course through three face-to-face days early in Terms 2, 3 and 4. In between there is a sequence of in-school learning activities designed to build your personal learning, through authentic tasks you’ll undertake within your own school.
Throughout your time on this course you’ll be supported by your library adviser, and share in an Online Community set up specifically for this course. Through facilitated and shared learning you will become part of a professional learning community.
This one-day course will inspire and engage you, and you’ll come away with inspiration, ideas and resources to support reading and related activities in your school, including maximising the library’s role in supporting a reading culture.
We’ll encourage you to participate in the Inspiring Readers Online Community set up for all participants on this course. Your learning will be supported by library advisers as well as other participants, as ideas and experiences are shared.
We’ve developed this course for principals, teachers and library staff at primary and secondary schools.
How would we define a ‘balanced 21st Century library collection’ that supports the learning needs of the students in your school?
We’ve developed this one-day course to help principals, senior staff and librarians grapple with the important issues, including the balance between print and online resources, and the issues around ebooks. We’ll help you to plan for a library collection in your school focused meeting the learning needs of your students.
As with all our courses, you will find support from other participants and advisers on your Online Community, which will be set up for this course.
This one-day course will take participants through the concept of advocacy, what this means, who your stakeholders are, who might become your most valuable advocates and why.
You’ll gain a deeper understanding of what true collaboration involves, and how your students will benefit.
Further support for your learning will be offered through the Online Community set up for all participants.
We invite principals, senior staff, teachers and library staff to enrol for this course.
What is ‘content curation’? Far from being completely new, this is something librarians have been doing for years – now using 21st century tools to curate selected online resources.
Come along to this half-day course and find out how to develop high quality curated content in your school library, and learn more about the best tools for the job.
You’ll become a member of a supportive online learning community, where you will be able to share your learning and ideas.
For school librarians – in primary or secondary schools.
By ‘primary sources’ we are referring to the original documents able to be used by you and your students, including photographs, paintings, maps, diaries, journals, letters, and verbatim accounts of events of the past.
On this one-day course you will learn more about how to analyse and evaluate primary sources, where to find them, and how you can use them to support relevant learning areas and inquiry themes.
For primary and secondary classroom or subject teachers, and school librarians.
Inspiration - creation - inquiry! Set up for educators, the Learning Studio in the Auckland Centre offers opportunities to use digital information tools. Here you can find and share inspiring and innovative ideas that you can use back in the classroom. The Learning Studio workshops encourage collaboration and creativity in the digital space.
These workshops have a practical and hands-on approach to learning about a variety of resources and tools that you can use in your school. We invite you to bring your laptop to each of these sessions.
Registrations are open for the Term 2 programme. These short workshops are sure to fill up quickly, so check the closing date for registrations and get in early!
In brief, here’s what we’re offering - for the full description and learning objectives, and online registration form, select the workshop of your choice under Auckland (Learning Studio) on the right-hand menu bar.
On the right-hand sidebar you’ll see the national programme information arranged by location. This enables you to select the location nearest you to find out details of what we are delivering in your area.
By clicking on a location you can then see what is offered term by term.
If you then select a particular course, you will then be taken to the course description page, where you can see all the details, including the name of the adviser who is managing that course.
From there you can register online. It’s easy - and you’ll receive an emailed confirmation that we’ve received your registration.
For general questions about the Professional Learning and Development Programme, phone the 0800 LIB LINE – 0800 542 5463.
For questions about a specific course, please contact the adviser who is managing that course in the location nearest you.
This year we have instituted a two-tier fee structure.
To encourage early registration, we are offering an Earlybird rate of $90 for a full-day course, and $45 for a half-day course.
For most courses the Earlybird Rate will expire 4 weeks before the course.
After that, you will be charged the Full Course Fee: $100 for a full-day and $50 for a half-day course.
The fee for the three-day School Libraries Supporting Learning course will be $270 at the Earlybird rate, and $300 for the Full Course Fee.
1. You’ll see that in 2012 the closing date for all course registrations is two weeks prior to the course. We will be applying this strictly this year, and strongly encourage you to register on or before that date. We cannot guarantee that late registrations will be accepted.
2. From 2012 we will be invoicing your school prior to the course, and this process will begin immediately following the registration close-off date.
3. Our decision as to whether sufficient registrations have been received for a course to proceed will be made on the basis of registrations received by close-off date.
4. You will register using the online form, accessed via the page of course information for your location – and we ask that you complete a separate form for each participant.
5. If a group is registering from your school, each person must register on a separate form.
6. Please use a separate online form for each course you are registering for.
7. Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Spaces on a course may be limited.
8. If a course is fully subscribed we will create a waiting list, and notify those on the waiting list accordingly. Over-subscription of a course may mean a repeat is offered on a new date, and all those on the waiting list will be offered places.
9. You will receive an emailed confirmation of your registration. If you haven’t received such a confirmation within 48 hours of sending through your registration, please contact the adviser managing that course immediately.
10. For further details see the Terms and Conditions.
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