Understanding Attachment and Trauma
This course is for teachers, but could also be useful for parents to know about.
Congratulations to Yarra Me School for putting this course together.
Would you like practical strategies for responding to students with complex behaviours?
Understanding Attachment and Trauma is an online learning course that enables teachers to undertake professional learning focussing on the understanding, assessment and classroom support of students with disrupted attachment and trauma.
The course is held over approximately ten weeks, providing access to all learning materials online and is designed as ‘blended learning’ with short three face-to-face sessions being run via WebEx.
The course has four main elements:
- Understanding
- Assessment for learning;
- Strategies; and
- Case studies.
Home learning support for students in need
State Schools' Relief (SSR) is offering home-learning support packages for students in need.
See below for how to apply.
Primary students
The offerings to students in need are as follows:
- Internet USBs with 50GB of data per month (for 3 months). Applications for these USBs will only be received for students who have no access to home internet
- Study packages comprising of a desk and chair (suitable for primary students)
- Stationery packages for primary students (please select either a Prep - Grade 3 pack OR a Grade 4 - Grade 6 pack)
Schools ask parents to hire babysitters for home learning
According to an article in today's Herald-Sun, some schools are asking parents if they can hire babysitters to supervise children during remote learning, after rejecting their applications for campus access.
The article says that "parents have received contradictory messages on whether children could attend, with some students denied access."
PV Executive Officer Gail McHardy is quoted in the article. Gail said it was tough even before COVID-19 for a lot of families. “Imagine what it would be like now for families who have lost everything,” she said
The article is behind a paywall, but you can read it if you have a Herald-Sun subscription.
Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Competition
Prizes in eight categories, across primary, secondary & assisted schooling levels, plus two overall prizes will be awarded.
Entry fee of $35 - $100 per school depending on the number of entries.
Ask your school art teacher to coordinate the entries & facilitate payment.
Full details available at www.dorothea.com.au
Entries close 30th June.
Parents and home-based learning
"The first thing to point out is that you’ve been doing home-based learning with your kids ever since they were born."
Clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller has written a brief and very practical guide for parents who are trying to support their kids with home-based learning.
With his usual down-to-earth approach and sense of humour, Andrew sets out some basic principles that will help you through and give you confidence in what you're doing with your kids.
Download Parents and Home-based Learning
Keeping learning going
- How do we design and deliver great remote lessons?
- How do we design great learning sequences?
- How do we keep our learners motivated and engaged?
Education Changemakers has developed a set of resources for teachers, school leaders and parents to 'keep learning going' in the current lockdown.
There are separate toolkits for primary and secondary schools.
You can browse and download the resources on the Keeping Learning Going website.
Call for home school allowance
Parents Victoria and Gender Equity Victoria are calling for Victorian parents to be supported with a one-off home school allowance to offset the additional costs associated with educating kids in isolation during Term 2.
‘’This week, families across Victoria are supporting a transformative educational experience – the launching of statewide digital classrooms. We know that women are likely to shoulder the major burden of providing the care, educational support and supervision necessary to making learning from home a success” said Tanja Kovac, CEO of Gender Equity Victoria, ‘The medical, social and economic disaster of Covid19 is impacting on women in ways that exacerbate gender inequities.”
Remote learning: PV media comment
The Herald-Sun published a wide-ranging article today about the Term 2 return to school and remote learning arrangements.
The article includes a comment from PV's Gail McHardy, as follows:
Parents Victoria executive officer Gail McHardy said it had been a “mixed bag” of a day but said she knew families would “rise to the occasion”.
“It’s going to take people a few days to settle in and there’s going to be good days and bad days,” she said.
Read the full article on the Herald-Sun website.
Term 2 arrangements for children with additional needs
This Facebook video from the Association for Children with a Disability answers parents' questions about Term 2 arrangements for children with additional needs.
You can skip the introduction and preliminaries and go to the 4 minute mark, where the questions and answers begin.
James Merlino announces Term 2 remote learning
In this Facebook video, Education Minister James Merlino explains the Term 2 remote learning arrangements in Victorian schools.
