This year the IEU is splitting its annual early career teachers’ conference into two events, in Sydney (10 June) and Fairfield (11 June).
The free afternoon sessions are open to IEU teacher members in their first five years of teaching.
In recent years, early career teachers have faced increased difficulties in attending whole day conferences. In response to members’ suggestions the IEU has developed these after-school events, located in two centres of the Sydney metropolitan region.
The event will include a welcome to the teaching profession and IEU membership. The keynote speaker, Glen Pearsall, will deliver an interactive workshop on Behaviour Management and Student Engagement.
Glen will explore practical strategies for getting students to have a more active role in your lessons, for taking responsibility for their work practice and for doing this without adding to your workload. His focus is on creating engaged and motivated classes, thereby managing student behaviour.
Glen has previously presented this workshop for members of the Victorian branch, VIEU, with great success. Glen was a Leading Teacher at Eltham High and now works throughout Australia as an educational consultant and teacher coach.
He is passionate about finding practical solutions to the everyday challenges of classroom teaching. Glen is the author of the best-selling And Gladly Teach, a handbook of classroom strategies for graduate teachers and the co-author of Literature for Life and Work Right.
He has a particular interest in the work of preservice teachers and has worked as a seminar leader and research fellow at the Centre for Youth Research. Classroom Dynamics, his latest book for graduate teachers, was published in 2012 by the TLN Press.
To register, go to www.ieu.asn.au and follow the prompts to the PD and Training page.