Second Year PCT Programme (for Teachers who Teach 4-8 Year Students)

This ‘how to’ maths session will build both teachers’ and students’ confidence and knowledge in all areas of maths, as well as emphasize how to have fun while learning. 

We will explore numeral identification, place value, multiplication and division, fractions, decimal fractions and proportional thinking through the use of materials, games and activities in order to reinforce and embed these vital maths concepts in primary and intermediate school classrooms.

Presented by Jill Smythe

Strategies, practical tools and new ideas to help you develop your teaching and writing programmes;

Opportunities for discussion around English language learners in our classrooms, what they need and how best we can support them and scaffold their learning;

Looking at literacy through an inquiry approach.

Presented by Becks Spurdle-Fisher / Holly Francis

Thinking about The Arts as a toolbox for exploring, discovering and presenting;

Developing ideas through making and doing Visual Arts;

Practical guidelines for organising arts activities.

Presented by Juliette Laird

This practical and visual session aims to provide teachers with a ‘thinking and questioning’ toolkit that can be used immediately to create and foster a thinking and questioning learning culture. We will discuss the importance of modelling thinking aloud and the need to guide children to ask different types of questions for different purposes.

We will look at using graphic organisers and other thinking resources such as Thinker Keys that can scaffold and extend children’s thinking and problem solving. ‘The person who does the thinking does the learning’ (nzmaths.co.nz).

Presented by Jo Williams

Afternoon – 

Digital technology, cyber safety, management tips, integrating digital technology across the curriculum and an opportunity to explore some of the best websites.

Presented by Glenn Pressnell

We will explore the different terminology used in schools, the Health Physical Education curriculum, what constitutes quality PE and participate in some activities that you can play with your students. tomorrow. 

The takeaway from this session is that teaching Physical Education is easier than expected, you have the ability to change the rules of the activities and as long as you have learning intentions connected to what you are doing the possibilities are endless! We will broaden your perception of what is possible when teaching Physical Education.

Presented by Healthy Active Learning Team, CLM Community Sport 

Afternoon – 

Teachers’ Presentations;

This is an opportunity to draw on the strengths and passions that our teachers have developed over their last two years of teaching. Now that the teachers are approaching full certification, we would encourage several teachers from the programme, who show leadership qualities, to step forward and provide short presentations of their choice, showcasing their areas of developing expertise from which we as educators can all benefit.

Presented by the PCT Teachers