QSLA Brisbane Subcommittee PD Documents
Professional Development - Online Recordings
If you would like to access any of the QSLA Professional Development recordings, please complete the PD order form located here. Please complete all details of the recording you would like to access, including payment (if applicable) and send to the QSLA Secretariat via email secretariat@qlsa.org.au.
AI & CRITICAL THINKING.
PRESENTED BY JASON LODGE
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Cost: $FREE for QSLA members, $30 for non-members
This PD addresses the following AITSL standards:
1. Know students and how they learn.
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
6. Engage in professional learning.
Jason will discuss the emergent uses and concerns of generative AI and learning. In his work, Jason advocates for a holistic approach to learning in the AI age by emphasising the need for self-regulated learning and co-regulation to steer productive human-AI educational interactions.
Join us for discussion about where AI could be used to assist in research and information literacy and where our students, as thinkers, still need to and should do the heavy lifting. Teacher Librarians play a significant role in designing learning, and leading pedagogy in their schools, therefore this is an important opportunity to explore the implications of AI on the role of critical thinking cognitions.
This recording is free for QSLA Members. Click here to view the recording.
SUPPORTING READING IN THE TEEN YEARS.
PRESENTED BY TEEN READING RESEARCH GROUP
Monday 13 November 2023
Cost: $25 for QSLA members, $30 for non-members
This PD addresses the following AITSL standards:
1. Know students and how they learn.
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
6. Engage in professional learning.
Lead by Associate Professor Leonie Rutherford, the Teen Reading research program at Deakin investigates young people’s reading preferences and practices.
Their recent research project ‘Discovering a ‘Good Read’: Cultural Pathways to Reading for Australian Teens in a Digital Age’, aims to support the school, library, and book industries to increase teenagers’ recreational reading.
The research maps a broad digital and cultural economy of reading, investigating how teens discover books, and the cultural and material factors that influence their choices. It also studies the role of different cultural intermediaries, ranging from professionals such as librarians, publishers and booksellers, to new digital intermediaries and networks in the digital ecology.
If you would like to access to this recording, please complete the PD order form located here. Please complete all details of the recording you would like to access, including payment (if applicable) and send to the QSLA Secretariat via email secretariat@qlsa.org.au.
A library literacy lesson: How to read and write about data in junior Maths and Science classes.
PRESENTED BY Fiona Philip and Brian Bodell
Monday 7 August 2023
Cost: $25 for QSLA members, $30 for non-members
This PD addresses the following AITSL standards:
1. Know students and how they learn.
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
In this webinar, Fiona Philip and Brian Bodell (Teacher Librarians, Churchie) will share their lessons taught, created and delivered in response to Maths and Science teachers’ requests for support.
Teachers of Maths and Science acknowledge that reading and writing in their subjects needs further emphasis but don’t necessarily have the time or expertise to mobilise cross curricular understandings.
These resources have been evaluated and delivered to classes across Year 7 and 9 since 2021.
If you would like to access to this recording, please complete the PD order form located here. Please complete all details of the recording you would like to access, including payment (if applicable) and send to the QSLA Secretariat via email secretariat@qlsa.org.au.
Teacher-Librarians as AI Superheroes: How Can We Adapt to AI in Teaching & Learning?
Presented by Stephen Taylor
Monday 15 May 2023
Cost: $25 for QSLA members, $30 for non-members
This PD addresses the following AITSL standards:
1. Know students and how they learn.
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
6. Engage in professional learning.
In this webinar, Stephen will discuss practical implications of AI for teaching and learning and will relate this specifically to the role of the teacher librarian. The session will cover the following topics:
AI and Information/Media Literacy
What are some ideas & issues related to AI in Education?
What are some issues related to ethics & academic integrity?
How might some accessible AI tools be used in promoting inquiry, differentiation and inclusion?
How can accessible AI tools be used to promote multi-literacies, reading and creativity?
If you would like to access to this recording, please complete the PD order form located here. Please complete all details of the recording you would like to access, including payment (if applicable) and send to the QSLA Secretariat via email secretariat@qlsa.org.au.
Library Website and Research Guides Showcase
Presented by QSLA Brisbane Subcommittee community members
Wednesday 2nd November 2022
$15 for QSLA members, $20 non-members
This PD addresses Teaching Standards
2. Know the content and how to teach it.
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.
6. Engage in professional learning.
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community.
In this webinar, members of our QSLA Brisbane subcommittee will showcase a range of school library websites and research guides. These online environments are critical in providing students with access to high-quality resources that meet their learning preferences. Specifically, research guides provide carefully curated material that meet users’ information needs and develop students’ information fluency skills by connecting with pedagogical design including the information search process and inquiry learning models such as i-Learn and guided inquiry.
This showcase will include the following demonstrations and discussions:
user experience [UX] principles and library website design,
research guides including for assessment and ATAR preparation,
embedded information skills and scope and sequence.
If you would like to access to this recording, please complete the PD order form located here. Please complete all details of the recording you would like to access, including payment (if applicable) and send to the QSLA Secretariat via email secretariat@qlsa.org.au.
Marketing, Social Media and School Libraries
Presented by Diane Velasquez
Monday 23 May 2022
$25 for QSLA members, $30 non-members
This PD addresses Teaching Standards
6. Engage in professional learning.
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community
In this webinar, Diane will touch on the basics of marketing and applying that to the digital space through social media and websites. The focus will be on what teacher-librarians can do to advocate effectively with their stakeholders (staff, students, parents). There will be suggestions of how to use social media effectively to advocate and market for the school library.
If you would like to access to this recording, please complete the PD order form located here. Please complete all details of the recording you would like to access, including payment (if applicable) and send to the QSLA Secretariat via email secretariat@qlsa.org.au.
QSLA BRISBANE SUBCOMMITTEE PD - Reading Detective Program: an intensive reading program for Years 7 and 8 by Joyce Sendeckyj on 9 March 2022
Joyce Sendeckyj is currently Head of Library and Digital Technologies teacher at St. Peter’s College, a dual campus Catholic Co-educational College in Cranbourne and Clyde North Victoria. In recent years, buoyed by two years of the necessity to ‘flip’ learning for students from on-campus mode to a home-based distance learning mode, Joyce has developed the Reading Detectives Program to necessitate a Year 7 and 8 focus on literacy and reading involvement and comprehension.
This PD addresses Teaching Standards:
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.
6. Engage in professional learning.
This recording is free for QSLA Members. Click here to view the recording.
QSLA BRISBANE SUBCOMMITTEE PD - DEVELOPING INFOGRAPHICS TO SHOWCASE LIBRARY ACHIEVEMENTS BY BRENDAN KELLY ON 28 AUGUST 2019
As an experienced and qualified Microsoft Office specialist, Brendan has worked across a range of academic and public libraries for the last fifteen years. He works with teaching staff to enhance their capacity to create and deliver high quality digital learning resources, as well as directly with students to increase their digital literacy skills.
This session will show you how to capture data and present visually engaging reports to your Senior Leadership Team.
JULIETTE BENTLEY PRESENTATION AT QSLA BRISBANE PD 7 MARCH 2019
Juliette Bentley, the co-ordinator of the Mt St Michael’s Writers’ Club, presented her session ‘Postcards from the Edge: Student Writers Stepping Out From the Edge of Their Comfort Zones’ to the group. Juliette is an English teacher at the college, and began her group in 2009 with 5 students for 45 minutes on a Friday afternoon, and it has now grown to include 60 students in 2019, meeting for 2 hours. She believes there are several reasons for the success of this club. Firstly, the members of the club are involved for fun, and not crushed through the demands of assessment. Juliette also makes it clear that writing is not an isolated activity – writers need an audience, so they all understand they need to share words and company, and knowing that critics need to make two favourable comments and are not allowed to be broadly negative about others’ work means the students bloom under these conditions.
Postcards from the Edge: Thursday 7 March, 2019
Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
Experienced teacher, presenter, writer and Mt St Michael’s College Writers’ Club Co-ordinator, Juliette Bentley shared her passion for developing the self-esteem, self-efficacy and nurturing of a global participatory culture, leveraging the creative voices of young writers in a co-curricular context.
View her full presentation here (Sound is not loud - turn up your speaker volume)