List of 2008 Professional Development workshops

Here is a complete list of PETA workshops for 2008. Detail of the event and a registration form can be downloaded by clicking on the relevant link.  To register, ither post the form back to us with your payment or fax to the PETA office with your credit card details.  Our contact information is on the registration form.

Assessment Workshops

• Assessment for Learning, presented by Wendy Bean (13 March, Ashfield, NSW or 4 April, New Lambton, NSW)

Literacy Workshops

• Getting to grips with grammar, presented by Margaret Scroope and Brigitte Ellis (1 April, Campbelltown, NSW)
• Pulling it all together to ensure literacy success in Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 classrooms, presented by Robyn Wild ( 11 March, Cabramatta, NSW or 17 March, Rooty Hill, NSW)
• Teaching values: transformative approaches to values education in primary schools, presented by Leonie Rowan (6 August, Geelong, VIC)
• Using drama strategies to read and write imaginatively, presented by Robyn Ewing (18 June, Dee Why, NSW or 25 August, North Gosford, NSW)
• Visualising new literacies in your classroom, presented by Jon Callow (5 May, North Hobart, TAS or 19 May, Brisbane, QLD or 10 June, Strathfield, NSW)

Reading Workshops

• Are they really reading? Reading strategies to support Years 3-6 ESL learners, presented by Sue Bremner (3 June, Cabramatta, NSW)
• Meeting the needs of ESL students, presented by Pam Luizzi and Janet Saker (21 August, Melbourne, VIC)
• Phonics to fluency, creativity to comprehension: teaching reading through drama, presented by Margery Hertzberg (18 August, Bathurst, NSW )
• Providing a balanced literature program for your students, presented by Mandy Tunica (29 May, Parramatta, NSW)
• Refresh your literacy session: focus on reading, presented by Roybn Wild (5 June, Canberra, ACT or 24 June, East Maitland, NSW or 2 September, Dubbo, NSW)

Thinking Skills Workshops

• Critical thinking, humour and text, presented by Jeni Mawter (28 May, Strathfield, NSW)
• Strategies for a thinking classroom, presented by Sandra Lynch and Greg Leaney (19 August, Parramatta, NSW)

Writing Workshops

• Boys write too, presented by Paul Stafford (14 May, Wollongong, NSW)
• Building a story, presented by Pat Flynn (4 August, Brisbane, QLD)
• Helping kids to write: it's more than just text types, presented by Robyn Wild (4 March, Port Macquarie, NSW or 3 April, North Ryde, NSW or 26 August, Albury, NSW)
• Teaching creative writing when the only thing you write is a shopping list, presented by Jeni Mawter (1 April, Parramatta, NSW )
• Teaching story shape - pulling stories apart, seeing how they work and then constructing new ones, presented by Geoff Havel (30 May, Perth, WA)
• The wide, wild world of poetry and narrative - teaching writing to years 1-7, presented by Peter McFarlane (29 March, Adelaide, SA)
• Writing like a writer: teaching creative writing, presented by Libby Gleeson (8 May, Ashfield, NSW or 15 May, Melbourne, VIC)