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On-Demand Professional Learning

On-Demand Professional Learning 

Are you looking for evidence-based professional learning that you can complete when and where it suits you best?  SPELD NSW offers a wide range of on-demand professional learning courses.  

You can complete on-demand professional learning as an individual – completing professional learning when it best suits you – or as team learning in your school or clinic.  If you enroll in team learning through your school or clinic, your team can complete the on-demand professional learning in team meetings or in after-school or twilight professional learning sessions!!

We hope you enjoy our evidence-based, practical and popular professional learning workshops and courses!!

Visit our Learning & Resources Hub to register for On-Demand professional learning.
SPELD NSW Members can access discounts to On-Demand professional learning through the Members’ Hub.

On-Demand Professional Learning 

Addition and Subtraction – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

28 June 2024

This short course looks at what concepts children need to understand to be able to add and subtract and the properties of these operations. It then explains the different models of addition and subtraction.
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Multiplication and Division – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

29 June 2024

This short course looks at what concepts children need to understand to multiply and divide and the properties of these operations. It then explores the concept of key facts, derived facts and fluency, before looking at the different models of multiplication and division.
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Bar Modelling and Word Problems – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

30 June 2024

This short course explores problem solving approaches, including Newman’s and Polya’s procedures. Then bar modelling is explained with several examples before moving on to number less word problems, the 3 reads strategy and finally goals free problems.
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Metacognition and Maths – Maths with Judy Hornigold

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

1 July 2024

This course will explore the importance of metacognition in maths (and learning in general). It will detail what metacognition is and how to develop metacognitive awareness. Strategies for using metacognition in problem solving will also be explored.
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The SPELD NSW Spelling Series – 10 Webinar Bundle – Individual Professional Learning

WHEN: Series of on-demand courses with the first course available from 5pm,

18 August 2024

This series of on-demand, self-paced courses is perfect for teachers, interventionists and speech pathologists looking to develop their own spelling content knowledge and learn some explicit instruction routines to confidently teach students to become fluent writers!
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Teaching Long Vowels: Not everything all at once – Individual Professional Learning

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

19 August 2024

Teaching students how to spell words with long vowels can be tricky. In this course, we show you great tips and tricks to simplify spelling instruction to make it more effective and targeted. We don’t want you to have to teach 8 spellings for the /ay/ phoneme! So, what do you do instead? Join us and we will show you!
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Help me Read! Strategies for Struggling Readers – On-Demand Individual Learning Course

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

26 August 2024

In this on-demand 8 module course you will learn about a range of evidence-based strategies to support struggling readers. On-demand professional learning designed for individual primary school teachers and educators providing learning support and intervention for primary school and high school students who are experiencing reading difficulties.
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Decodable Reader Demonstration – Free On-Demand Course

WHEN: Time and date to be confirmed

10 September 2024

If your school is interested in understanding more about the range of phonics and decodable book resources we offer and how best to match decodable books to your phonics scope and sequence, then join us at this free decodable book demonstration.
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Ending Spellings – Individual Professional Learning

WHEN: On-demand course available from 5pm,

16 September 2024

English loves word endings rules! There are some rules and patterns around how to spell word endings and here we cover the most common ones. Ck or c or k? Dge or ge? FLOSS? We will simplify these tricky generalisations and then show you a simple way to teach them!
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Schwa no More!

Schwa no More: Taking the stress out of teaching schwa! – Individual Professional Learning

WHEN: On-demand course available from 5pm,

14 October 2024

As words get longer, so does our spelling headache. Not anymore! In this course we will show you some clever strategies for teaching polysyllabic words, as well as words that contain silent letters and yep- schwa! We will end the course with a demonstration of how to teach 2 syllable words and all their tricky bits!
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Double or Nothing: The doubling rule – Individual Professional Learning

WHEN: On-demand course available from 5pm,

11 November 2024

To double or not to double. Now that’s an interesting question. In this course, we show you how to teach the doubling rules when adding a vowel suffix in a really simple way. We will look at how we can make this less overwhelming for students and set them up for success! Then we extend that to look at 2 syllable words and clarify how to teach this rule for those more complicated words!
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When Suffixes get to Work – Individual Professional Learning

WHEN: On-demand course available from 5pm,

10 December 2024

Different suffixes can have different jobs. Identifying them and understanding their purpose is important knowledge for teachers and helps not just with spelling but with grammar and vocabulary. In this course, we take you on a metalanguage joy-ride through the world of suffixes! We will model simple ways we can communicate these complex ideas to students.
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