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September 2011
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Darwin DVD Resource : Transforming Education Conference

Postgraduate credit from DVD: Gain credit from professional development

Teacher Training in ICT: Three options for your staff to gain both skills and biblical perspectives on ICT

New way to study: Effective teaching within your school

New staff member: Welcome Ingrid Gould

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Darwin DVD Resource

Our recent International Transforming Education Conference was a wonderful time of inspiration, learning, professional development and community building. We trust that God was glorified, His son worshipped, the Spirit was active and that Christian education was nurtured in this country and others. 

If you were one of the over 1100 people who descended on Darwin for the week, thank you for helping make it such an enriching time.

If you didn't get to Darwin, you can still experience the presentations.

Purchase a DVD Package

Click here to order a copy of the DVD Package.
Package includes:

Video of all Keynote Sessions
Video of over 20 Strand Sessions
Professional development workbook for use with teaching staff
Study Guide for ED581 Appraisal of Professional Learning
BONUS MP3 audio of all presentations for CEPA members

Click here to download speaker presentation resources

Click here to download audio of the Scholarly Symposium (research into education)

Postgraduate credit from DVD

Did you know

• You can turn attendance at professional development into postgraduate credit
• You can even use a DVD resource, like above, as profession development that can be turned into credit

One way of doing this is to enrol in the unit ED581 Appraisal of Professional Learning. This involves critiquing the PD, reflecting on classroom practice and doing some additional relevant reading. Doing this for 3 PD events may gain credit for the ED581 postgraduate unit.

Click here to purchase DVD

Click here to make enrolment e nquiry

Click here to ask about other ways you can turn what you have already worked on into credit

Teacher Training in ICT

At the National Institute for Christian Education we understand the need for teachers to continue in their professional learning of ICT skills and digital literacy. We also recognise the need for Christian teachers to be developing tools for biblical critique as they embrace these new technologies.

What we will offer in 2012:

The Certificate of Christian Education (Technology). This one day course (or equivalent) takes all teachers (and parents) though the biblical perspective on the issues that need to be considered as we continue to embrace ICT in our schools. New technologies are explained and the worldview shaping influence explored. This could also be delivered in a 1-4 hour presentation. This is available now.

European Pedagogical ICT Licence . The National Institute is now a course provider of EPICT in Australia. This is a wonderful 8 module course that gets completed in small teams within the school context with a trained facilitator. It focuses on developing the teacher's ICT skills but always in the context of pedagogy. Click here to download the brochure. Click here for the EPICT website.

ED555 Technology and Education. This is a new elective course on offer in our post graduate program. To read the unit outline click here.

New way to study

We have reworked our postgraduate unit ED543 Effective Teaching into a guided resource that can be run in a series of 8 staff meetings. It is a clearly set out resource with guided activities, responses and readings all set within the one workbook.

Credit or professional development

The workbook is set out in such away that should a teacher want to use their engagement with the resource for postgraduate credit, the addition readings and reflections (with word counts) for this are clearly indicated. Credit for a unit this way is at a reduced enrollment rate.

Why not explore doing this with your principal?

Why not offer to run it for them?

Click here for a sample of the workbook

Click here to enquire about your school engaging with this resource

New staff member

Kerrie Macready, our wonderful Registrar, will now be job sharing her role. 

We are excited to welcome Ingrid Gould to our staff. Ingrid has experience as a teacher and as a teacher's aid and she is also currently on the staff at Nepean Christian School.

Ingrid and Kerrie will share the existing admin@nice.edu.au email address.

Why not drop her a welcome email?

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