About the community
The Community of Practice (CoP) is a virtual community made up of all the registered users of the Clearinghouse website. It features a discussion forum and a database of community resources. Members are encouraged to visit the CoP to find out about upcoming professional learning opportunities and to access tips, tools and resources recommended by their peers.
How can I contribute?
Content in this section is from the community and for the benefit of the community. Any registered user can contribute content - this might be details of an upcoming event, a useful website you have found or a resource of your own creation - simply click on the button above and follow the prompts. Please keep your descriptors short and relevant and keep the formatting as close as possible to existing content.
Recurring events
When submitting a series of events, such as a recurring workshop, these should be included in one individual listing with dates expressed as a range and not re-submitted for each individual occurrence.
Please be aware that your contribution will not appear immediately in the Clearinghouse as all entries and uploads will be checked for relevance and appropriateness by AITSL prior to publication.
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Professional learning events
School Libraries Making a difference: What is your evidence and how do you get it?
This one day seminar with Dr Ross J Todd and Lyn Hay will provide professional opportunities...
Conscious Classroom Management: dealing with disruptive classroom behaviour and practical strategies to engage students in the classroom
Will provide teachers with practical strategies and techniques to help them understand the...
QELI Middle Managers
Conferences
Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference 2012
Will focus on technologies designed to advance independent achievement for people with disabilities...
School Education Expo
This free community event, now in its eigth year, is for parents, teachers and anyone interested...
Shaping Teaching and Learning: the assessment factor
The theme of the 2012 QSA conference recognises the power of assessment, its role in teaching...
News items
Follow the sabbaticals experience!
Last year's winners of the Australian Awards for Outstanding Teaching and School Leadership...
2012 Awards nominations open
Government, Catholic and independent peak school education bodies in each state and territory...
Proposal for national accreditation of initial teacher education programs
Web sites
Literacy Educators Coalition
A lively site with an interesting mix of resources on literacy advocacy and broader schooling issues.
Educational Leaders
The New Zealand Ministry of Education's website for school leaders. Features information...
Middle Leadership
Community resources
Top leadership teams and how to build them
Uploaded by Andrew Kopittke on 23-12-2011 11:12 AM
Effective teamwork is essential to the good health of an organisation, but many teams do not function as effectively or efficiently as they should. This study has some of the answers. The researchers identified four 'ironic features' of teams.
Symposium key points and next steps
Uploaded by Diana Cassidy on 27-10-2011 11:21 AM
AITSL CEO, Margery Evans, talks about next steps and key points discussed at the Leadership Symposium on the principal standard, held in June 2011.
The international experience
Uploaded by Diana Cassidy on 27-10-2011 11:12 AM
Insights from Dr Sandra Stein, Dame Pat Collarbone and Professor Jan Robertson about the strengths and challenges of implementing a standard for school leaders based on their own school leadership experiences in New York City, the UK and New Zealand...
A counter-intuitive approach to making complex decisions
Uploaded by Clearinghouse Administrator on 18-05-2011 3:46 PM
From the Harvard Business Review blog, advocates letting your subconscious help in the process of making complex decisions.
Communities of practice: creating learning environments for educators
Uploaded by Clearinghouse Administrator on 17-05-2011 10:51 AM
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Uploaded by Clearinghouse Administrator on 11-05-2011 12:03 PM
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Greg Dyke on how leaders create willing followers
Uploaded by Clearinghouse Administrator on 09-05-2011 3:01 PM
Fields Wicker-Miurin: learning from leadership's "missing manual"
Uploaded by Clearinghouse Administrator on 09-05-2011 3:01 PM
Patrick Awuah on educating leaders
Uploaded by Clearinghouse Administrator on 09-05-2011 3:01 PM
L5 at work
Uploaded by Clearinghouse Administrator on 09-05-2011 3:01 PM
